Liberty Quotes - Page 15

The most miserable prison in the world is the prison we make for ourselves when we refuse to show mercy. Our thoughts become shackled, our emotions are chained, the will is almost paralyzed. But when we show mercy, all of these bonds are broken, and we enter into a joyful liberty that frees us to share God's love with others.

The God who gave us life gave us liberty. Can the liberties of a nation be secure when we have removed a conviction that these liberties are the gift of God?

Liberal constitutional democracy is supposed to ensure that each citizen is free and equal and protected by basic rights and liberties.

What is possible for me is possible for you.

True freedom is not the liberty to do anything we please, but the liberty to do what we ought; and it is genuine liberty because doing what we ought now pleases us

Liberty, equality, fraternity, or death; - the last, much the easiest to bestow, O Guillotine!

Somebody, after all, had to make a start. What we wrote and said is also believed by many others. They just don't dare express themselves as we did.

If virtue & knowledge are diffused among the people, they will never be enslav'd. This will be their great security.

Those who begin coercive elimination of dissent soon find themselves exterminating dissenters. Compulsory unification of opinion achieves only the unanimity of the graveyard.

Liberty is the power that we have over ourselves.

Vigilance is not only the price of liberty, but of success of any sort.

A slave is he who cannot speak his thoughts.

If liberty is not entire it is not liberty.

The road to tyranny, we must never forget, begins with the destruction of the truth.

The liberty of the press is indeed essential to the nature of a free state: but this consists in laying no previous restraints upon publications, and not in freedom from censure for criminal matter when published. Every freeman has an undoubted right to lay what sentiments he pleases before the public: to forbid this, is to destroy the freedom of the press: but if he publishes what is improper, mischievous, or illegal, he must take the consequence of his own temerity.

Individual liberty depends upon keeping government under control.

Wrong is wrong only when you are at liberty to choose.

...It looked very different from the Statue of Liberty, but what did that matter? What was the good of having the statue without the liberty, the freedom to go where one chose if one was held back by one's color? No, I preferred the Eiffel Tower, which made no promises." ~ Josephine Baker, once she had seen the Eiffel Tower

Properly understood, then, the desire to act justly derives in part from the desire to express most fully what we are or can be, namely free and equal rational beings with the liberty to choose.

Free will is not the liberty to do whatever one likes, but the power of doing whatever one sees ought to be done, even in the very face of otherwise overwhelming impulse. There lies freedom, indeed.

We have buried the putrid corpse of liberty...

The dearest ambition of a slave is not liberty, but to have a slave of his own.

The most stringent protection of free speech would not protect a man in falsely shouting fire in a theater and causing a panic.

No nation ancient or modern ever lost the liberty of freely speaking, writing, or publishing their sentiments, but forthwith lost their liberty in general and became slaves.

Freedom is the greatest fruit of self sufficiency.