Liberty - Quotes
Freedom and love
Are dear to me;
My life I give,
Sweet love, for thee,
Yet love I give
For liberty.
We choose to live (...) rooting ourselves to a home or a career and using the future as a kind of phony ritual that justifies the present. In this way, we end up spending (as Thoreau put it) "the best part of one`s life earning money in order to enjoy a questionable liberty during the least valuable part of it."
Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.
The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty.
Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.
I think it`s an enormous blessing to be the child of an immigrant who fled oppression, because you realize how fragile liberty is and how easily it can be taken away.
Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost.
If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
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.
God grants liberty only to those who love it, and are always ready to guard and defend it.