Liberty Quotes - Page 7

Men make their own history, but they do not make it as they please.

Finally liberty has come!

America... goes not abroad, in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to the freedom and independence of all.

Perfect Liberty follows no rules, law, or any virtue for that matter. It disregards respect, courteousness, and love.

We welcome change and openness; for we believe that freedom and security go together, that the advance of human liberty can only strengthen the cause of world peace.

Repression by brute force is always a confession of the inability to make use of the better weapons of the intellect - better because they alone give promise of final success.

In a battle between force and an idea, the latter always prevails.

It's important to remember that peace, liberty and freedom changes many aspects in our thoughts as far as life is concerned.

Since Shakespeare had a feel for revolutionary rhetoric, let’s all cry: “Peace, freedom and liberty!

We don't yet know, above all, what the world might be like if children were to grow up without being subjected to humiliation, if parents would respect them and take them seriously as people.

I believe in the fireside. I believe in the democracy of home. I believe in the republicanism of the family. I believe in liberty, equality and love.

Take from a man his freedom or his goods and you may have taken his innocence, almost his humanity, as well.

A jealous lover of human liberty, and deeming it the absolute condition of all that we admire and respect in humanity, I reverse the phrase of Voltaire, and say that, if God really existed, it would be necessary to abolish him.

Jupiter: I am not your king, impudent larva? Who then has created you?
Orestes: You. But you should not have created me free.

They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves

For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.

Freedom is not something that anybody can be given. Freedom is something people take, and people are as free as they want to be

Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.

Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!