Quotes About Liberty

Ideas of human dignity and liberty did the trick, making the inventions and then investments profitable for entrepreneurs and the nation. As the economic historian Joel Mokyr puts it, "economic change in all periods depends, more than most economists think, on what people believe.

Every dictator is an enemy of freedom, an opponent of law.

Men will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest.

As the noted author and intellectual W .E. B. Du Bois says, we've given all of our economic power away. "When you owe another, your freedom is impaired," Du Bois counseled. "Your ability to decide your destiny is tainted by the amount you owe.

You have the spiritual, legal, and social right to be or not to be

Socialism values equality more than liberty.

Also, when you escape a Communist regime, you treasure liberty and you understand that as government and state expand, liberty must contract.

Hennie read the last lines of the pamphlet: "Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!" "That's Emma Lazarus," said Pa. "Is that her up there?" asked Hennie and pointed at Melinda Swanevelder in the Volvo. Pa said no, Emma Lazarus was an American poet. She wrote the poem that is engraved on the Statue of Liberty. The woman in the cab is Melinda Swanevelder. We found her in Vanderkloof.

Peace means nothing without freedom.

Knowledge is essential to freedom.

Liberty is the prevention of control by others. This requires self-control and, therefore, religious and spiritual influences; education, knowledge, well-being.

The Founders believed liberty came directly from God. With their knowledge of Scripture, they knew each child was made in the image of God. That is why everyone had dignity, value and worth.

Liberty is no less a blessing because oppression has so long darkened the mind that it can not appreciate it.

We are not to give credit to the many, who say that none ought to be educated but the free; but rather to the philosophers, who say that the well-educated alone are free.

Freedom from slavery is achieved only when a person starts to feel and understand that he would prefer death to life as a slave.

I contend that the strongest of all governments is that which is most free.

If I don't have anything to do all day, I might not even put my pants on.

O, let my land be a land where Liberty Is crowned with no false patriotic wreath, But opportunity is real, and life is free, Equality is in the air we breathe.

Lucifer represents life, though, progress, civilization, liberty, independence. Lucifer is the Logos, the Serpent, the Savior.

All mankind... being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or possessions.

The First Amendment has the same role in my life as a citizen and a writer as the sun has in our ecosystem.

The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time.

Chapter Thirteen GARBAGE IN THE CAUSE OF LIBERTY (HOLD THE GOAT)

Freedom is that instant between when someone tells you to do something and when you decide how to respond.