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Liberty can be delayed, but it cannot be denied.
George W. Bushborn 1946Remarks to the People of Hungary (June 22, 2006)
- Liberty
I hope we once again have reminded people that man is not free unless government is limited.
Ronald Reagan1911–2004Farewell Address (1989)
- Government
For freedom is not the property of one generation; it’s the obligation of this and every generation. It’s our duty to protect it and expand it and pass it undiminished to those still unborn.
Ronald Reagan1911–2004Final speech as President (1989)
- Responsibility
A non-violent soldier of freedom will covet nothing for himself, he fights only for the freedom of his country.
Mahatma Gandhi1869–1948From the Quit India speech in Bombay, on the eve of the Quit India movement (8 August 1942)
- Patriotism
There can be no constitutional democracy in any community which denies to the individual his freedom to speak and worship as he wishes.
Franklin D. Roosevelt1882–1945Fireside Chat (24 June 1938)
- Democracy
Peace has been said to be indivisible; so is freedom, so is prosperity now, and so also is disaster in this One World that can no longer be split into isolated fragments.
Jawaharlal Nehru1889–1964“A Tryst with Destiny”, speech to the Constituent Assembly, New Delhi (14 August 1947)
- War & Peace
Kick is seeing things from a special angle. Kick is momentary freedom from the claims of the aging, cautious, nagging, frightened flesh. Maybe I will find in yage what I was looking for in junk and weed and coke.
William S. Burroughs1914–1997Junkie (1953)
There has never been upon the earth a generation of free men and women. It is not yet time to write a creed.
Robert G. Ingersoll1833–1899The Liberty of Man, Woman and Child (1877)
As for libertarian, I’ve been one all my life, a radical one. You might use the term “philosophical anarchist” or “autarchist” about me, but “libertarian” is easier to define and fits well enough.
Robert A. Heinlein1907–1988Statement to Judith Merril (1975), as quoted in William H. Patterson Jr., Robert A. Heinlein: In Dialogue with His Century, Vol. 2 (2014)
- Liberty
- Politics
I shudder when I think of the calamities which slavery is likely to produce in this country.
John Adams1735–1826Letter to Louisa Catherine Adams (13 January 1820)
- America
- Slavery
Property must be secured, or liberty cannot exist.
John Adams1735–1826Discourses on Davila (1790), No. 13
- Liberty
I have, through my whole life, held the practice of slavery in such abhorrence, that I have never owned a negro or any other slave.
John Adams1735–1826Letter to Robert J. Evans (8 June 1819)
- Slavery
Aristocrats need not be rich, but they must be free, and in the modern world freedom grows rarer the more we prate about it.
Robertson Davies1913–1995“Osbert Sitwell” (1945)
That side of our existence whose direction is towards the infinite seeks not wealth, but freedom and joy.
Rabindranath Tagore1861–1941Sādhanā: The Realisation of Life (1913), “The Realisation of the Infinite”
- Happiness
O Great Beyond, O the keen call of thy flute! I forget, I ever forget, that I have no wings to fly, that I am bound in this spot evermore.
Rabindranath Tagore1861–1941The Gardener (1913), 5