Quotes About Liberty

Of all the so-called natural human rights that have ever been invented, liberty is least likely to be cheap and is never free of cost.

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It [now] seems to me that every time we manage to establish one freedom, they take another one away. Maybe two. And that seems to me characteristic of a society as it gets older, and more crowded, and higher taxes, and more laws.

I hope you will comply willingly; it will speed the day when I can bow out and life can get back to normal—a new normal, free of the Authority, free of guards, free of troops stationed on us, free of passports and searches and arbitrary arrests.

Neither capitalist indust-reality nor socialist indust-reality have been able to give humanity what most of us really want: liberty and justice, freedom and the abolition of poverty, continued growth and continued security. In looking at capitalism vs. socialism, we are always confronted with a dilemma, not a choice.

Nor yours nor mine, nor slave nor free!

By Oppression's woes and pains! By your sons in servile chains! We will drain our dearest veins, But they shall be free! Lay the proud usurpers low! Tyrants fall in every foe! Liberty's in every blow! Let us do or die!

The historian John Keegan explains that America and Britain could champion freedom only because the sea protected them "from the landbound enemies of liberty.

Kenneth Minogue

The search for liberation is a rejection of the responsibilities of freedom in favor of a release into the irresponsibility of rights. And a right is irresponsible because it is a legally entrenched liberty that does not contain within itself the limitations instinctive in a free society.

The liberty to do what one wants to the limits of one's strength—including the liberty to do as one wills with other people—is the liberty of the state of nature. No one has the right to demand obedience from anyone else, although some have the ability to compel it by force.

Regulile erau simple: fara reguli.

The command to be free is a double bind

Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose.

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Let me remind you that the measure of any one's freedom is what he can do without.

I like the religion that teaches liberty, equality and fraternity.

This I must fight against: any idea, religion, or government which limits or destroys the individual.

Religion and good morals are the only solid foundation of public liberty and happiness.

I am opposed to any form of tyranny over the mind of man.

I die, as I have lived, a free spirit, an Anarchist, owing no allegiance to rulers, heavenly or earthly.

There can be no fanatics in the cause of genuine liberty. Fanaticism is excessive zeal. There may be, and have been fanatics in false religion; in the bloody religions of the heathen.

The price of freedom of religion or of speech or of the press is that we must put up with, and even pay for, a good deal of rubbish.

When religion controls government, political liberty dies; and when government controls religion, religious liberty perishes.