Explore Quotes on Liberty

My position does not give me the liberty to exclude anything, but my mood tells me there will not be violence.

A subject to which few intellectuals ever give a thought is the right to be a vagrant, the freedom to wander. Yet vagrancy is a deliverance, and life on the open road is the essence of freedom. To have the courage to smash the chains with which modern life has weighted us (under the pretext that it was offering us more liberty), then to take up the symbolic stick and bundle and get out.

I therefore take the liberty of proposing for this hypothetical new atom, which is not light but plays an essential part in every process of radiation, the name photon.

Why do children want to grow up? Because they experience their lives as constrained by immaturity and perceive adulthood as a condition of greater freedom and opportunity. But what is there today, in America, that very poor and very rich adolescents want to do but cannot do? Not much: they can do drugs, have sex, make babies, and get money (from their parents, crime, or the State). For such adolescents, adulthood becomes synonymous with responsibility rather than liberty. Is it any surprise that they remain adolescents?

Only powerful people have liberty.

There is no liberty without dependency. That is why we should celebrate tax day.

In America, writers are afforded the freedom to express themselves in unlimited manners. Creative liberty is a privilege.

The liberty of using harmless pleasure will not be disputed; but it is still to be examined what pleasures are harmless.

It is not alone that property, in all its forms, is struck at, but that liberty, in all its forms, is challenged by the fundamental conceptions of socialism.

My liberty is about living. It's about spreading more love. Even though I was always a peaceful, loving individual, my music sometimes didn't reflect that. But now it's different. My music is reflecting the way I feel.

Let me ask you, sir, when is the time for brave men to exert themselves in the cause of liberty and their country, if this is not?

A standing military force, with an overgrown Executive will not long be safe companions to liberty.

The solution of the social problem is in liberty.

What has destroyed liberty and the rights of man in every government which has ever existed under the sun? The generalizing and concentrating all cares and power into one body, no matter whether of the autocrats of Russia or France, or of the aristocrats of a Venetian senate.

Liberty has meaning only if we still believe in it when terrible things happen and a false government security blanket beckons.

Those who would give up liberty for safety deserve neither.

And now let me give the sentiment which has been, and ever will be, the governing passion of my soul: 'Liberty for each, for all, and forever!'

My country is wherever liberty lives.

Government is a guarantor of liberty and is compatible with liberty only if its range is adequately restricted to the preservation of what is called economic freedom.

Is not liberty the destruction of all despotism - including, of course, legal despotism?

I follow a set of principles; I follow the Constitution. And that's what I base my votes on. Limited government, economic freedom, and individual liberty.