On Liberty Quotes

I have undertaken vengeance. I want Liberty and Equality to reign in Saint-Domingue. I work to bring them into existence. Unite yourselves to us, brothers, and fight with us for the same cause.

Liberty and equality are captivating sounds, but they often captivate to destroy.

Sometimes I wonder if there is any hope left for an Israeli-Palestinian discourse that is built on equality and liberty rather than a fruitless discourse of master and servant.

We want order and security, and we want liberty. And we want not only liberty but equality as well.

We must all rise to the challenge to demonstrate that security and prosperity in the Internet age are not only compatible with liberty, they ultimately depend on it.

We, the French, are viscerally attached to our laicite, our sovereignty, our independence, our values. The world knows that when France is attacked, it is liberty that is dealt a blow.

My grand affair appears settled, for America is certain of her independence, humanity has gained her cause, and liberty will never be without a place of refuge.

It has always been the aim of royalty and aristocracy to lower the individual liberty and independence of the common people. A baron and a minute-man could not breathe the same air.

The history of liberty is a history of resistance.

Liberty is not the power of doing what we like, but the right to do what we ought.

True liberty consists only in the power of doing what we ought to will, and in not being constrained to do what we ought not to will.

I grew up like a neglected weed - ignorant of liberty, having no experience of it.

It is a clear truth that those who every day barter away other men's liberty will soon care little for their own.

For scholarship - if it is to be scholarship - requires, in addition to liberty, that the truth take precedence over all sectarian interests, including self-interest.

I have no sympathy for debunking human achievements that, in the end, gave ordinary people liberty.

I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice! And let me remind you also that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.

Poetry is the experience of liberty. The poet risks himself, chances all on the poem's all with each verse he writes.

Your Majesty, I took the liberty because I was so desirous of visiting alone with you for a few minutes before the rest of the other peasants arrived.

I admit my view of the world is colored by my legal and business experiences at Liberty.

People are dying in vain because this country isn't holding their end of the bargain up as far as, you know, giving freedom and justice and liberty to everybody.

To talk about liberty and freedom is nice, lovely, but the important thing is to allow people to act in liberty and freedom.

Now, one of the most essential branches of English liberty is the freedom of one's house.