Quotes About Liberty

Let the Fourth of July always be a reminder that here in this land, for the first time, it was decided that man is born with certain God-given rights; that government is only a convenience created and managed by the people, with no powers of its own except those voluntarily granted to it by the people. We sometimes forget that great truth, and we never should. Happy Fourth of July.

The classical Liberal, during the Revolutionary time, was a man who wanted less power for the king and more power for the people. He wanted people to have more say in the running of their lives and he wanted protection for the God-given rights of the people. He did not believe those rights were dispensations granted by the king to the people, he believed that he was born with them. Well, that today is the Conservative.

Carmen will always be free.

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 liverty or anarchy.

Rather free in a foreign place than a slave back home

It's a kindness that the mind can go where it wishes.

If you wish, like us, that the entire liberty of the individual and, consequently, his life be respected, you are necessarily brought to repudiate the government of man by man, whatever shape it assumes; you are forced to accept the principles of Anarchy that you have spurned so long. You must then search with us the forms of society that can best realize that ideal and put an end to all the violence that rouses your indignation.

Should an authoritarian Socialist society ever succeed in establishing itself, it could not last; general discontent would soon force it to break up, or to reorganize itself on principles of liberty.

In fact, we know full well today that it is futile to speak of liberty as long as economic slavery exists.

No one is free who has not obtained the empire of himself. No man is free who cannot command himself.

As soon as laws are necessary for men, they are no longer fit for freedom.

No one is free who has not obtained the empire of himself.

For the first few years after such a law was passed there might occasionally be undignified scenes, but in Britain individual liberty is so often curtailed for the common good. Order would soon prevail.

the concepts of libertas and libertà came to be employed 'almost as technical terms of Florentine politics and diplomacy' in the course of the fourteenth century, and that they were almost invariably used in order to express the same ideas of independence and self-government

So far from engaging in a war to perpetuate slavery, I am rejoiced that slavery is abolished. I believe it will be greatly for the interests of the South. So fully am I satisfied of this, as regards Virginia especially, that I would cheerfully have lost all I have lost by the war, and have suffered all I have suffered, to have this object attained."8

Man will be fully a person, a per se subsistens and a per se operans, only in so far as the life of reason and liberty dominates that of the senses and passions in him; otherwise he will remain like the animal, a simple individual, the slave of events and circumstances, always led by something else, incapable of guiding himself; he will be only a part, without being able to aspire to the whole.

Let my love, like sunlight, surround you and yet give you illumined freedom.

True modernism is freedom of mind, not slavery of taste.

their power till they are not only reasonably free from the tyranny of Nature and human neighbours, but have

Podría ser que solo cuando ya es demasiado tarde para escapar nos demos cuenta de que siempre hemos sido libres.

Might it be true that half of freedom is the willingness to take it when it's offered?

It may be the case, she said, that it is only when it is too late to escape that we see we were free all along.

That's all I've managed as far as freedom is concerned, to get rid of the people and things I don't like. After that, there isn't all that much left!

That's all I've managed as far as freedom is concerned, to get rid of the people and the things I don't like. After that, there isn't all that much left!