Quotes About Liberty

four essential human freedoms": speech, worship, and freedom from want and fear.

No animal has more liberty than the cat, but it buries the mess it makes. The cat is the best anarchist.

Nobody likes to life anchors.

I love thee as I love all that we have fought for. I love thee as I love liberty and dignity and the rights of all men to work and not be hungry. I love thee as I love Madrid that we have defended and as I love all my comrades that have died. And many have died. Many. Many. Thou canst not think how many. But I love thee as I love what I love most in the world and I love thee more.

He did not want any consequences. He did not want any consequences ever again. He wanted to live along without consequences.

You were created to be free. If you are a follower of Jesus Christ, you're also called to be free.

Si la esclavitud sigue siendo una opción, nos encontraremos abdicando a nuestra libertad. Sencillamente, por lo general no lo llamamos esclavitud. Lo llamamos seguridad. Lo llamamos comodidad. Lo llamamos responsabilidad.

Eroarea lui André Breton este,poate,de a se fi luat prea în serios.Trebuie s? te iei doar puÈ›in în serios,altminteri totul e inconsistent.Dar dac? te iei prea în serios,nu mai exist? libertate,e gata puÈ™c?ria,strangularea.Nu mai ai cu adev?rat libertate de miÈ™care.Nu te mai miÈ™ti,eÈ™ti prins,eÈ™ti una cu lucrurile,nu mai ai distanÈ›a necesar? de a vedea clar.Trebuie s? fii numai pe jum?tate serios.

Sînt deja închis. Cum sînt toti. Închis si totodata prea liber.

If our liberty and republican form of government, procured for us by our revolutionary fathers, are worth the blood and treasure at which they were obtained, it is surely our duty to protect and defend them.

It is the paradox of virtue knit into the fabric of reality: you will not be free unless you are virtuous; you cannot be virtuous unless you are free.

I)t's not a question whether your country is perfect or imperfect; it's a question of whether it's free or not free.

Justice William O. Douglas wrote, "The framers of the Constitution knew human nature as well as we do. They too had lived in dangerous days; they too knew the suffocating influence of orthodoxy and standardized thought. They weighed the compulsions for restrained speech and thought against the abuses of liberty. They chose liberty.

We must recognize that we do not have a two-party system in this country; we have one party, the big government party. There is a republican version that assaults our civil liberties and loves deficits and war, and a democratic version that assaults our commercial liberty and loves wealth transfers and taxes.

Which would you choose: To be free or to be secure? State security and personal freedom often run along tense lines with each other, but our Constitution and its philosophical roots clearly bias freedom over safety.

Only problem is, we the people are not asked to choose liberty or security. In fact, we the people are often misled to believe that the only way to protect the homeland is by acquiescing, by placing our freedoms at the feet of our protectors.

I realized there was no freedom without funds.

The ideal of Liberty that has made the Republic the arbiter of Europe will also make it the arbiter of distant oceans, of faraway countries.

for only with independence can you let your own life express itself naturally. To be tied down to someone else's routine, doing things you dislike Ã¢â'¬â€œ that is not life Ã¢â'¬â€œ not for me .

On Liberty, 'that truth, merely as truth, has any inherent power denied to error, of prevailing against the dungeon and the stake.

Why do these civilizations all seem to follow the same identifiable sequence—from bondage to spiritual faith, from spiritual faith to courage, from courage to liberty, from liberty to abundance, from abundance to complacency, from complacency to apathy, from apathy to dependence, and finally from dependence back into bondage?

It doesn't take many people to lead a nation in a direction that has serious repercussions on the liberty of others. Indeed, most will agree that we have already given up liberties for various reasons, and we may never get them back. Under certain circumstances, things can take a very bad turn very rapidly. This cycle has repeated itself with many societies throughout history. Despite the solid foundation of our culture and political system, America is not immune.

If it is correct that "you shall know the truth, and the truth shall set you free," then is it possible that if you don't know the truth, its absence can place you in bondage?

If freedom is to be saved and enlarged, poverty must be ended. There is no other solution.