Ever since I arrived to a state of manhood, I have felt a sincere passion for liberty. The history of nations doomed to perpetual slavery, in consequence of yielding up to tyrants their natural born liberties, I read with a sort of philosophical horror; so that the first systematical and bloody attempt at Lexington, to enslave America, thoroughly electrified my mind, and fully determined me to take part with my country.
Ethan AllenMots clés liberty passion horror slavery country tyrants manhood determinaiton
We are not to expect to be translated from despotism to liberty in a featherbed.
Thomas JeffersonMots clés liberty freedom easy difficult change tyranny government effort despotism hard
No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free no one ever will.
Thomas JeffersonMots clés liberty government censor press
Liberty, taking the word in its concrete sense, consists in the ability to choose.
Simone WeilWe are not called to fight the battles of our fathers with a blind faith. We are called to examine their wars, and moreover, to discern whether their actions were sinful or just. Furthermore, we are called to decide whether to correct the errors of our fathers battles through either peace, war, or some combination of the two. We are not bonded to our fathers' fate, but rather called to build on their trespasses or triumphs for a better future.
Kent MarreroMots clés liberty fate destiny fathers cristina-marrero trespasses
We are the offspring of history, and must establish our own paths in this most diverse and interesting of conceivable universes—one indifferent to our suffering, and therefore offering us maximum freedom to thrive, or to fail, in our own chosen way.
Stephen Jay GouldMots clés liberty freedom history atheism universe suffering diversity
I could not see how poor people had the means of being kind, and then to learn to speak like them, to adopt their manners, to be uneducated, to grow up like one of the poor women [...]: no, I was not heroic enough to purchase liberty at the price of caste.
Charlotte BrontëIt is because every individual knows little and, in particular, because we rarely know which of us knows best that we trust the independent and competitive efforts of many to induce the emergence of what we shall want when we see it.
Friedrich A. HayekMots clés liberty freedom economics market
Our faith in freedom does not rest on the foreseeable results in particular circumstances but on the belief that it will, on balance, release more forces for the good than for the bad.
Friedrich A. HayekMots clés liberty freedom economics free-market
Liberty is never unalienable; it must be redeemed regularly with the blood of patriots or it always vanishes. Of all the so-called natural human rights that have ever been invented, liberty is least likely to be cheap and is never free of cost.
Robert A. HeinleinMots clés liberty patriotism rights constitution patriot unalienable-rights
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