Quotes About Liberty

tribe—a nation—will not change until it realizes how low it has fallen. When my people realize that they have loved bondage with leisure and sin better than strenuous liberty with

should not enslave another. Slavery is an awful business.

or as swift as men, but did we not have the same right to live freely and make choices?

Fly free with me.

A conviction, unformulated but strong, rose to the working level of her mind - that painting did something more important for Nicholas than the mere gratifying of a whim; that this form of work and liberty of expression straightened out in him something that was tangled, set free in him something that, shut up, turned bad and poisoned him from below.

What if democracy does not serve liberty? This question is seldom asked in the West, where democracy is often seen as synonymous with liberalism.

Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable, and others extremely difficult.

Now I do whatever I want.

The less I have, the freer I am to do whatever I want to do.

Justice is my being allowed to do whatever I like. Injustice is whatever prevents my doing so.

No rules. Don't be afraid to do whatever you want. Cooking doesn't have to have rules. I don't like it that way.

The liberty of man consists solely in this, that he obeys the laws of nature because he has himself recognized them as such, and not because they have been imposed upon him externally by any foreign will whatsoever, human or divine, collective or individual.

Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.

Whenever regulation increases, personal freedom decreases.

The very essence of civil liberty certainly consists in the right of every individual to claim the protection of the laws, whenever he receives an injury. One of the first duties of government is to afford that protection.

For now more than ever, we must keep in the forefront of our minds the fact that whenever we take away the liberties of those we hate, we are opening the way to loss of liberty for those we love.

Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.

There can be no tyrants where there are no slaves.

The secret of freedom lies in educating people, whereas the secret of tyranny is in keeping them ignorant.

Judging from the experience of the European War, imperialism renders no great benefit to any nation, whereas liberty for all nationalities is the only principle by which humanity will ever be saved.

Every diminution of the liberty of the press is followed by a diminution of civilization. Wherever we see the freedom of the press interfered with, there we see the nutrition of the human family interrupted.

Wherever it is resisted, slaver dies away and freedom grows.

Wherever the sword of rebellion is drawn to protect the rights of man, I am a rebel. Wherever the sword of rebellion is drawn to give man liberty, to clothe him in all his just rights, I am on the side of that rebellion.