Quotes About Liberty

Town meetings are to liberty what primary schools are to science; they bring it within the people's reach.

Freedom, the first-born of science.

It was a subversive notion, the idea that she was free. Free to choose where to go and what to do with her time.

... wanting nothing more than for it to unravel, unbind.

T is liberty crowns Britannia's Isle, And makes her barren rocks and her bleak mountains smile.

I march in the parade of liberty But as long as I love you I'm not free How long must I suffer such abuse Won't you let me see you smile one time before I turn you loose?

But let me offer you my definition of social justice: I keep what I earn and you keep what you earn. Do you disagree? Well then tell me how much of what I earn belongs to you - and why?

The first maxim of a man who loves liberty, should be never to grant to rulers an atom of power that is not most clearly and indispensably necessary for the safety and well being of society.

In a free society, government has the responsibility of protecting us from others, but not from ourselves.

Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise, every expanded prospect.

When once men recognize, both in private and in public life, that Christ is King, society will at last receive the great blessings of real liberty, well-ordered discipline, peace and harmony.

We indeed did and do own our own minds and bodies, and anything from church or state that limits that is inappropriate and inconsistent with the ... society that America is supposed to be.

Justice is the end of government. It is the end of civil society. It ever has been and ever will be pursued until it be obtained, or until liberty be lost in the pursuit.

There is no free society without silence, without the internal and external spaces of solitude in which the individual freedom can develop.

Sometimes You Have to Pay a Heavy Price to Live in a Free Society

I think the real free person in society is one that's disciplined. It's the one that can choose; that is the free one.

The only rule is that there are no rules.

We stand in the shadow of Jefferson who believed that a society founded upon the rule of law and liberty was dependent upon public education and the diffusion of knowledge.

Individual liberty and interdependence are both essential for life in society.

If a society is to be free, its government has to be controlled.

Release your majestic mind, embrace your untamed inner spirit. Break free from captivity, avoid society.. You were born to be free.

A society is not 'free' merely because the freedoms the people are doing away with are those they voted at the last election to do without.

Consumer freedom means orientation of life towards market-approved commodies and therefore precludes one crucial freedom: freedom from the market, freedom that means anything else but the choice between standard commercial products. Above all, consumer freedom successfully deflects aspirations of human liberty from communal affairs and the management of collective life.

Mientras que los beneficiarios de nuestra peligrosamente desequilibrada, inestable y poco equitativa globalización consideran su libertad sin freno el mejor medio para alcanzar su propia seguridad, sus víctimas directas o colaterales sospechan que su mayor obstáculo para ser libres (y para hacer uso de cualquier libertad que se les pudiera conceder) radica en la inseguridad, que viven como algo horrible y lamentable.