Paul Valery Quotes

Freedom is a dangerous intoxicant and very few people can tolerate it in any quantity.

If we are a free country, we have the right to be free.

Liberty a word without which all other words are vain.

It is far better to be free to govern or misgovern yourself than to be governed by anybody else

The Malagasy people must have the liberty to choose their own future.

Every people should be originators of their own destiny.

If you give people an opportunity for self government and freedom, most people will reach for freedom

We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.

All we want is to carry out the greatest expression of a free democracy and vote on Catalonia's future. This is not about independence: it is about fundamental civil rights and the universal right of self-determination.

Free people will set the course of history.

Just what is it that America stands for? If she stands for one thing more than another it is for the sovereignty of self-governing people.

A people that loves freedom will in the end be free.

It is for men to choose whether they will govern themselves or be governed.

Liberty is liberty, not equality or fairness or justice or human happiness or a quiet conscience.

I would contend that we place no other value above the right to be free. We will die for our freedom. In fact, we believe freedom is sufficiently important that we will even die so that others around the globe might be free.

Just as man must have liberty to think and speak, so he must have liberty in food, dress, and marriage, and in every other thing, so long as he does not injure others.

Liberty is a better husband than love to many of us.

It seems self-evident that we should want people to be free, to be able to play an active part in making decisions about matters of concern to them, to the largest possible extent.

Henceforth, we shall be happy to be a free citizen in an independent country.

Nothing is more precious than independence and liberty.

The free way of life proposes ends, but it does not prescribe means.

Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.

I sent American troops to Iraq to make its people free, not to make them American. Iraqis will write their own history and find their own way.

You have spent many lives and much treasure to bring freedom to many lands that were reluctant to receive it. And here you have a people who won it by themselves and need only the help to preserve it.

Argentina wouldn't exist if not for self-determination, and this can't be valid for some but not for others.