Liberty Quotes
I would rather be exposed to the inconveniencies attending too much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it.
The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.
I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.
We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their creator with inherent and inalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
God, who gave us life, gave us liberty. Can the liberties of a nation be secure when we have removed a conviction that these liberties are the gift of God? Indeed, I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just, that His justice cannot sleep forever.
The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.
I like the religion that teaches liberty, equality and fraternity.
Political democracy cannot last unless there lies at the base of it social democracy. What does social democracy mean? It means a way of life which recognizes liberty, equality and fraternity as the principles of life.
What are we having this liberty for? We are having this liberty in order to reform our social system, which is full of inequality, discrimination and other things, which conflict with our fundamental rights.
So long as you do not achieve social liberty, whatever freedom is provided by the law is of no avail to you.
Religion, social status, and property are all sources of power and authority which one man has, to control the liberty of another.
Without equality, liberty would produce the supremacy of the few over the many. Equality without liberty, would kill individual initiative.
Let them worship as they will; every man can follow his own conscience, provided it does not interfere with sane reason or bid him against the liberty of his fellow-men.
Where there is no freedom, there is death and destruction.
A few hours' mountain climbing turn a rogue and a saint into two rather equal creatures. Exhaustion is the shortest way to equality and fraternity-and liberty is added eventually by sleep.
Shackled heart, free spirit. Whoever binds his heart tightly and imprisons it may indulge his spirit in many liberties: I have already said that once. But no one believes me unless he already knows.
Intrinsically there should be no more choice between Islam and Christianity than there is between an Arab and a Jew. The decision is already reached; nobody remains at liberty to choose here.
Liberty is no longer the virgin, chaste and severe, to be fought for ... we have buried the putrid corpse of liberty ... the Italian people are a race of sheep.
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