Quotes About Liberty

Rebels against her--that stem intractable sense Of that which no man can stomach and still be free, Writing: "When in the course of human events . . ." Writing it out so all the world could see Whence come the powers of all just governments. The tree of Liberty grew and changed and spread, But the seed was English.

don't believe in the word slave because no one chooses to be owned by someone; an enslaved person is a human being whose freedom has been stolen.

The regime established here [in the U.S.] promised untrammeled freedom to reasonnot to everything indiscriminately, but to reason, the essential freedom that justifies the other freedoms, and on the basis of which, and for the sake of which, much deviance is also tolerated. An openness that denies the special claim of reason bursts the mainspring keeping the mechanism of this regime in motion.

Life, liberty, and the pursuit of property were just what Aristotle did not talk about. They are the conditions of happiness; but the essence of happiness, according to Aristotle, is virtue. So the moderns decided to deal with the conditions and to let happiness take care of itself.

Mustn't. Damn, Braden had met a woman who used mustn't in everyday conversation. Did she say other sexy words, like shan't? How about something big, like wherewithal? Braden, I shan't resist your commands, and I have the wherewithal to ride your cock all night. Oh, yeah. And Ky thought libraries were boring?

Todo es mentira, y donde no existe la verdad, no puede existir la libertad".

en una dictadura, la expresión estar en libertad no significa lo mismo que ser libre.

Todo es mentira, y donde no existe la verdad, no puede existir la libertad.

En la guerra, se mata y se muere. La guerra es cruel, y siembra crueldad, es temible, y siembra miedo, es arbitraria, y siembra arbitrariedades. La guerra es también, a veces, el precio de la libertad, de la justicia, del futuro.

This day (Independence Day) reminds us that true independence is not merely the absence of external control, but the resolute presence of self-determination.

That piece of red, white and blue bunting means five thousand years of struggle upwards. It is the full-grown flower of ages of fighting for liberty. It is the century plant of human hope in bloom.

In the early centuries of Islam, the great schools of Islamic jurisprudence were built upon the above principles. Basic to all their legal systems they developed the doctrine that liberty is the fundamental basis of law.

Peu glorieuse, la fuite ? C'est pourtant mieux que de se laisser attraper. Le seul déshonneur, c'est de ne pas être libre.

Al parecer, huir es poco glorioso. Lástima, porque es una sensación muy agradable. La huida proporc­iona la más formidable sensación de libertad que se pueda experim­entar. Te sientes más libre huyendo que si no tienes nada de lo que huir. [...] Uno debería tener siempre algo de lo que huir, para cultivar esa maravil­losa posibil­idad. De hecho, siempre hay algo de lo que huir. Aunque sólo sea de uno mismo.

La libertad no se cuantificaba en metros cuadrados disponibles. La libertad consistía en estar por fin a merced de nosotros mismos

La fenêtre était la frontière entre la lumière horrible et l'admirable obscurité, entre les cabinets et l'infini, entre l'hygiénique et l'impossible à laver, entre la chasse d'eau et le ciel. Aussi longtemps qu'il existerait des fenêtres, le moindre humain de la terre aurait sa part de liberté.

Mientras existieran ventanas, el más débil de los humanos tendría su parte de libertad.

La finestra era la frontiera tra la luce orribile e la mirabile oscurità, tra i gabinetti e l'infinito, tra l'igienico e l'impossibile da lavare, tra lo sciacquone e il cielo. Finché esisteranno finestre, l'essere umano più umile della terra avrà la sua parte di libertà.

Aussi longtemps qu'il existerait des fenêtres, le moindre humain de la terre aurait sa part de liberté.

El único deshonor es no ser libre.

The freedom we have here in America is like breathing in an entire open field of fresh air all at once. Sometimes too much air can be stifling.

It is not infrequent to hear men declaim loudly upon liberty, who, if we may judge by the whole tenor of their actions, mean nothing else by it but their own liberty - to oppress without control, or the restraint of laws, all who are poorer and weaker than themselves.

America was established not to create wealth but to realize a vision, to realize an ideal - to discover and maintain liberty among men.

A superfluity of wealth, and a train of domestic slaves, naturally banish a sense of general liberty, and nourish the seeds of that kind of independence that usually terminates in aristocracy.