Quotes About Freedom

Be yourself, no one can ever tell you you're doing it wrong.

A feather on a breeze," Wash said, then frowned. "Something like that, at any rate. There may be a better analogy.

I've got personal views on the '60s. You can't have freedom without paying the price for it.

If growing up means it would be beneath my dignity to climb a tree, I'll never grow up, never grow up, never grow up! Not me!

You need not be sorry for her. She was one of the kind that likes to grow up. In the end she grew up of her own free will a day quicker than the other girls.

They threw me off the haytruck about noon.

You can't be just against communism; you've got to be for something.

His captors asked why he, a nonslaveholder, was fighting to uphold slavery. He replied: "I'm fighting because you're down here."7

The upper South, like the lower, went to war to defend the freedom of white men to own slaves and to take them into the territories as they saw fit, lest these white men be enslaved by Black Republicans who threatened to deprive them of these liberties.

How is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes?

Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise, every expanded prospect

We have seen the mere distinction of colour made in the most enlightened period of time, a ground of the most oppressive dominion ever exercised by man over man

In Republics, the great danger is, that the majority may not sufficiently respect the rights of the minority.

The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty.

I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.

A man has a property in his opinions and the free communication of them.

The loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or imagined, from abroad.

I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments by those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.

A well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people.

A well regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, trained in arms, is the best most natural defense of a free country.

What spectacle can be more edifying or more seasonable, than that of Liberty and Learning, each leaning on the other for their mutual and surest support?

The free system of government we have established is so congenial with reason, with common sense, and with a universal feeling, that it must produce approbation and a desire of imitation, as avenues may be found for truth to the knowledge of nations.

We are right to take alarm at the first experiment upon our liberties.

Where an excess of power prevails, property of no sort is duly respected. No man is safe in his opinions, his person, his faculties or his possessions.