Quotes About Liberty

There is no freedom in peaceful slavery.

All great enterprises have a pearl of faith at their core, and this must be ours: that Americans are still a people born to liberty.

All great enterprises have a pearl of faith at their core, and this must be ours: that Americans are still a people born to liberty. That they retain the capacity for self-government. That, addressed as free-born, autonomous men and women of God-given dignity, they will rise yet again to drive back a mortal enemy.

I'm not beholden to anyone. I'm not waiting for a pension or a carriage clock.

Perhaps the enemies of liberty are such only because they judge it by its loud voice.

A well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people.

I can't believe people think they need permission to drive. Or permission to do anything.

Liberty consists in the power of doing that which is permitted by the law.

Until every soul is freely permitted to investigate every book and creed and dogma for itself, the world cannot be free.

People come to this country because they view our culture as the best. It is a culture free of persecution, a culture free of oppressive government, and above all... a culture of really, really cool stuff.

It is his restraint that is honorable to a person, not their liberty.

When politics and home life have become one and the same, when economic problems have been solved in such a way that individual and collective interests are identical – all constraints having disappeared – it is evident that we will be in a state of total liberty or anarchy.

How came the people to err? How happens it that, when seeking liberty and equality, they fell back into privilege and slavery? Always through copying the ancient régime.

I must say that I recognized at once that we had never understood the meaning of these words, so common and yet so sacred: Justice, equity, liberty; that concerning each of these principles our ideas have been utterly obscure; and, in fact, that this ignorance was the sole cause, both of the poverty that devours us, and of all the calamities that have ever afflicted the human race.

Liberty is the original condition of man; to renounce liberty is to renounce the nature of man: after that, how could we perform the acts of man?

Courage is what preserves our liberty, safety, life, and our homes and parents, our country and children. Courage comprises all things.

You summon us, we follow. You order us to be free and so we will be.

The first destroyer of the liberties of a people is he who first gave them bounties and largess

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Polly Young-Eisendrath

We all want our FREEDOM, but (unfortunately) most of us think that it comes FREE.

Masa terbaik dalam hidup seseorang adalah masa ia dapat menggunakan kebebasan yang telah direbutnya sendiri

Dan dengan langkah berat pergilah aku meninggalkan rumahsakit itu; rumah tempat orang yang tak bebas mempergunakan tubuh dan hidupnya sendiri.

Perbudakan tidak aku benarkan. Siapapun tidak dibenarkan untuk menjadikan saudaranya sendiri budak dan bukan saudaranya sendiri menjadi budak.