Quotes About Liberty

we, from very liberty and reaction, were tending towards emptiness and eventual disintegration.

Maybe libertarians especially like Reddit because it is a perfect marketplace of content. Every Redditor is created equal, whether you're the highest karma Redditor or a brand-new Redditor with 10 karma points. No submissions or votes are more equal than others.

Wouldn't it be something if Liberty's votes were enough to change which presidential candidate won Virginia and maybe even the presidency itself?

The act of voting by ordinary Iraqis in the face of extreme danger confirms President Bush's belief that people around the globe, when given a chance, will choose liberty and democracy over enslavement and tyranny.

During my last voyage to America, I enjoyed the happiness of seeing that revolution completed, and, thinking of the one that would probably occur in France, I said in a speech to Congress, published everywhere except in the 'French Gazette,' 'May this revolution serve as a lesson to oppressors and as an example to the oppressed!'

For all my years in public life, I have believed that America must sail toward the shores of liberty and justice for all. There is no end to that journey, only the next great voyage. We know the future will outlast all of us, but I believe that all of us will live on in the future we make.

I have never felt vulnerable nor restricted in my movements.

There is no right to a job or a wage rate, but there is a right to move from one country to another in search of a better life. This is the point of view of Thomas Jefferson, John Locke and other great supporters of the natural rights tradition in America.

The right to defend oneself is something that should never require us to be on a list, it should never require us to pay a tax, it should never require us to wait to be able to purchase a firearm to defend ourselves, it should never require rules or shame, or condemnation from another American.

I wake up every morning new, free as a bird.

Freedom - to walk free and own no superior.

The first day of 'Liberty,' I was hanging around waiting for Ford to come in. Everybody told me how tough he was and not to say anything, or he'd single you out and get on you the whole shoot. But as he walked in, I got up and saluted him.

No slavery can be abolished without a double emancipation, and the master will benefit by freedom more than the freed-man.

I believe with my sage and epigrammatic friend P. J. O'Rourke that a government big enough to give you everything you want is also big enough to take it all away.

America's biggest problem is too much freedom.

Americans may not always live up to the Bill of Rights, but Americans do not ban books.

No blessing, no good, can follow in the path trodden by slavery.

My parents didn't care very much what I did, and that was probably a blessing.

People own their own bodies and have the absolute right to put anything they want into it.

I think that people should absolutely be allowed to do whatever they want with their bodies and to live the life they want to lead.

The power of the American people, when we rise up and stand for liberty, knows no bounds.

Now, one of the most essential branches of English liberty is the freedom of one's house.

Liberty is the breath of progress.

My parents had broken through the shackles of dogma.