Quotes About Liberty

Free people, remember this maxim: we may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lost.

To renounce liberty is to renounce being a man, to surrender the rights of humanity and even its duties. For he who renounces everything no indemnity is possible. Such a renunciation is incompatible with man's nature to remove all liberty from his will is to remove all morality from his acts.

You see, we have all the makings of a real beautiful dictatorship. And what is holding it back is a tradition stemming out of the Bill of Rights and the Constitution. That's it. And if that center doesn't hold, you will find the sweetest dictatorship you will ever want to look for. Many of them are men of goodwill, and they do not understand the delicacy of liberty, how easily it can be destroyed.

Human rights and freedoms protect us against arbitrary government.

see marriage as a man must, a good, sensible workaday institution; but awfully curbing to one's liberty. Somehow, after you're married forever, life has lost its feeling of adventure. There aren't any romantic possibilities waiting to surprise you around each corner.

name—Simón José Antonio de la Santísima Trinidad Bolívar y Palacios Ponte y Blanco—Bol

La liberté, pensait-elle, c'est le choix de ce qui va vous asservir.

Liberty is obedience to the law which one has laid down for oneself.

I prefer liberty with danger than peace with slavery.

Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.

Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains. Those who think themselves the masters of others are indeed greater slaves than they.

Every man having been born free and master of himself, no one else may under any pretext whatever subject him without his consent. To assert that the son of a slave is born a slave is to assert that he is not born a man.

I have never thought, for my part, that man's freedom consists in his being able to do whatever he wills, but that he should not, by any human power, be forced to do what is against his will.

I am condemned to be free.

I have always been a firm believer in the longstanding American principle of having the right to bear arms and I will remain committed to see that this freedom is not infringed upon, revoked, or limited in any way.

let's frame our definition of success as: life (health), liberty (financial freedom), and the realization of happiness.

Thomas Jefferson had once written: "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.

I do believe very much in the idea of unexpected or 'convulsive' beauty - beauty in the service of liberty.

Human rights are being violated on every continent. More people are oppressed than free.

Always pick the thing that is not a chain, is one way to try to save the world.

These were risks I was willing to take. It was more important for me to feel free than safe.

At least he was choosing who wielded power over him. There was a wildness to the thought, a freedom, that set him alight as much as it chilled him to the core.

But we found San Salvatore, said Mrs. Arbuthnot, and it is rather silly that Mrs. Fisher should behave as if it belonged only to her. What is rather silly, said Mrs. Wilkins with much serenity, is to mind. I can't see the least point in being in authority at the price of one's liberty.

This hand, unfriendly to tyrants,Seeks with the sword placid repose under liberty.