Quotes about Liberty

117 quotes about Liberty

It is often safer to be in chains than to be free.

It is often safer to be in chains than to be free.

Quote by Franz Kafka about liberty

Freedom means the opportunity to be what we never thought...

Freedom means the opportunity to be what we never thought we would be.

Quote by Daniel J. Boorstin about liberty

Empire and liberty.

Empire and liberty.

Quote by Marcus Tullius Cicero about liberty

I imagine, therefore I belong and am free.

I imagine, therefore I belong and am free.

Quote by Emily Dickinson about liberty

Without freedom there is no art, art lives only through...

Without freedom there is no art, art lives only through its constraints, constraints which are impose by it and dies if other constraints appear.

Quote by Albert Camus about liberty

If you ask me to summarise our mission, I would put it this way: We were a military regime that sought to lay the foundations for freedom and liberty in a complex society.

Quote by Ibrahim Babangida about liberty

Most importantly, nothing has happened to change my conviction that freedom and the love of liberty remain the essential defining attributes of our national character as a people.

Quote by Ibrahim Babangida about liberty

It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to lose...

It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to lose liberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man's self.

Quote by Francis Bacon about liberty

No people in history have ever survived who thought they...

No people in history have ever survived who thought they could protect their freedom by making themselves inoffensive to their enemies.

Quote by Dean Acheson about liberty

Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is...

Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.

Quote by Lord Acton about liberty

Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility...

Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself.

Quote by Henry B. Adams about liberty

I must study politics and war that my sons may have...

I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.

Quote by John Adams about liberty

Liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge...

Liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people.

Quote by John Adams about liberty

Liberty cannot be preserved without general knowledge...

Liberty cannot be preserved without general knowledge among the people.

Quote by John Adams about liberty

Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a...

Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power.

Quote by John Adams about liberty

Property is surely a right of mankind as real as liberty.

Property is surely a right of mankind as real as liberty.

Quote by John Adams about liberty

There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free...

There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.

Quote by John Adams about liberty

Political liberty, the peace of a nation, and science...

Political liberty, the peace of a nation, and science itself are gifts for which Fate demands a heavy tax in blood!

Quote by Honoré de Balzac about liberty

For what I know, no one is free, except Zeus.

For what I know, no one is free, except Zeus.

Quote by Aeschylus about liberty

What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage.

Quote by Bruce Barton about liberty

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