Quotes About Liberty

It is no longer left versus right. It is authoritarianism versus freedom.

If you don't value freedom abover everything else, everything else is wothless

If you don't value freedom above everything else, everything else is worthless

True leaders do not command their followers, but they inspire them, they do not lord over them, but are examples before them, and do not lead through compulsions, but through liberty. Ask your nature.

The Statue of Liberty is not that monument's name. It is Liberty Enlightening the World.

Pushing through fear was what eventually set you free.

I am in everything that stands for justice and the natural rights of free men everywhere.I am American Amaranth

no man is free until he s a master of himself!!

Madness is freedom and some may only perceive its Insanity.

Laissez faire, laissez passer.

Keep your mind free and independent even when someone wants to imprison your body.

Safe popular freedom consists of four things, the diffusion of liberty, of intelligence, of property, and of conscientiousness, and cannot be compounded of any three out of the four.

Liberty, equality - bad principles! The only true principle for humanity is justice; and justice to the feeble is protection and kindness.

Knowledge is freedom and ignorance is slavery

The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty.

If virtue & knowledge are diffused among the people, they will never be enslav'd. This will be their great security.

La soledad suele ser el territorio del destierro para el hombre verdaderamente libre

Alexis de Tocqueville.

One black man, overcome by emotion, dropped to his knees, prompting the president to conduct a curbside colloquium on the meaning of emancipation. "Don't kneel to me," said the president. "That is not right. You must kneel to God only, and thank Him for the liberty you will enjoy hereafter.

Thus the cerebral footings were laid. Voltaire preferred intellectual liberty and enlightened despotism. Montesquieu wanted limited monarchy and a separation of political powers. Rousseau dreamed of an ideal republican commonwealth.

All we have left of liberty is an ad-man's illusion.

Man has lost the basic skill of the ape, the ability to scratch its back. Which gave it extraordinary independence, and the liberty to associate for reasons other than the need for mutual back-scratching.

I'm not willing just to be tolerated. That wounds my love of love and of liberty.

Un livre est un outil de liberté.