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Quotes About Freedom

The truth is that men are tired of liberty.
~ Benito Mussolini
A country where a man is afraid to criticise another one is no socialist country.
~ Enver Hoxha
We call ourselves a free nation, and yet we let ourselves be told what cabs we can and can't take by a man at a hotel door, simply because he has a drum major's uniform on.
~ Robert Benchley
It is indeed probable that more harm and misery have been caused by men determined to use coercion to stamp out a moral evil than by men intent on doing evil.
~ Friedrich August von Hayek
The ballot box is the surest arbiter of disputes among free men.
~ James Buchanan
The day for the Negro man being a coward is over.
~ James Meredith
The government was set to protect man from criminals, and the Constitution was written to protect man from the government.
~ Ayn Rand
It is impossible for a man to be freed from the habit of sin before he hates it, just as it is impossible to receive forgiveness before confessing his trespasses.
~ Ignatius of Antioch
Man is what he wills himself to be.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
I didn't want to move or act like a rich man. I wanted to dance in a pair of jeans. I wanted to dance like the man in the streets.
~ Gene Kelly
Man has only to sink beneath the surface and he is free.
~ Jacques Yves Cousteau
You must never behave as if your life belongs to a man. Do you hear me?' Aunty Ifeka said. 'Your life belongs to you and you alone.
~ Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
In violation of the Habeas Corpus Act and the fundamental laws of our constitution these men have never been brought to trail or even allowed to see a lawyer.
~ John Amery
Every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has a right to, but himself.
~ John Locke
Men are created different; they lose their social freedom and their individual autonomy in seeking to become like each other.
~ David Riesman
None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license.
~ John Milton
Gentlemen, you may soon have the alternative to live as slaves or die as free men
~ Daniel O'Connell
The man who says to me, "Believe as I do, or God will damn you," will presently say, "Believe as I do, or I shall assassinate you."
~ Voltaire
Free men do not ask permission to bear arms
~ Thomas Jefferson
There can be but little liberty on earth while men worship a tyrant in heaven.
~ Robert Green Ingersoll
Men's consciences ought in no sort to be violated, urged, or constrained.
~ Roger Williams
All men are created equal. Now matter how hard they try, they can never erase those words. That is what America is about.
~ Harvey Milk
I feel like you don't have to go through jail, that's not part of bein' a man.
~ Gucci Mane
We would have every arbitrary barrier thrown down. We would have every path laid open to woman as freely as to man.
~ Margaret Fuller