Quotes About Liberty

I believe this: There is a lot of discipline to be derived from freedom.

I don't want our right to be able to speak and dissent to be taken away.

The world today is divided into the free and the enslaved.

To be safe at the expense of the liberty of other people is a difficult equation.

It's important to me that I should be free to express myself.

In London I feel free; nobody bothers anyone and everyone is free to express themselves.

I've never had a problem with people expressing themselves. It's one thing great about our country.

To some extent I liken slavery to death.

The sacrifice of our personal liberty for security is and will forever be a false choice.

To Marines, love of liberty is not an empty phrase... Rather, it's displayed by blood, sweat, and tears for the fallen.

People who believe in freedom of expression have spent several centuries fighting against censorship, in whatever form. We have to be certain the 'Net' doesn't become the site for technological book burning.

If information wants to be free, then that's true everywhere, not just in information technology.

I'll tell you what freedom is to me: no fear. I mean really, no fear!

And I don't think that government has a role in telling people how to live their lives. Maybe a minister does, maybe your belief in God does, maybe there's another set of moral codes, but I don't think government has a role.

I keep telling myself to calm down, to take less of an interest in things and not to get so excited, but I still care a lot about liberty, freedom of speech and expression, and fairness in journalism.

I also believe that government has no business telling us how we should live our lives. I think our lifestyle choices should be left up to us. What we do in our private lives is none of the government's business. That position rules out the Republican Party for me.

The bourgeois prefers comfort to pleasure, convenience to liberty, and a pleasant temperature to the deathly inner consuming fire.

Freedom is fragile and must be protected. To sacrifice it, even as a temporary measure, is to betray it.

developing the dependency-free zone is the real challenge.

Warum ist eigentlich das demokratische System besser?... Es ist besser, weil es die volle Entwicklung des Menschen als Individuum möglich macht. Aber... das zeigt nur, daß die Demokratie eine >angenehmere< Form der Regierung ist [...].

The right to free speech does not give you the liberty to talk slander

Houdini untied himself, Faz. That was the trick.

You can not prove that Fascism is anything but a sordid, retrogressive despotism, which crushes the individual liberty and strangles the intellectual life of every country it inflicts with its slimy presence … and Fascism is nothing but a new fad-name for industrial tyranny … the Fascist movement in America is nothing but a move on the part of the money-barons to establish themselves more firmly than ever, to stamp out the last vestige of freedom in the people beneath them

The free way of life proposes ends, but it does not prescribe means.