Quotes About Freedom

the average man does not want to be free. he simply wants to be safe.

Political freedom means the absence of coercion of a man by his fellow men.

Ask the first man you meet what he means by defending freedom, and he'll tell you privately he means defending the standard of living.

The ideal Government of all reflective men, from Aristotle onward, is one which lets the individual alone - one which barely escapes being no government at all.

How was she to tie herself to a man without permitting him to imprison her? And was there some means of acquiring things without those things possessing her?

I am an American; free born and free bred, where I acknowledge no man as my superior, except for his own worth, or as my inferior, except for his own demerit.

Oppression makes a wise man mad.

A woman should be able to kiss a man beautifully and romantically without any desire to be either his wife or his mistress.

It appertaineth to the true God alone to be able to loose men from their sins.

Any situation in which some men prevent others from engaging in the process of inquiry is one of violence;… to alienate humans from their own decision making is to change them into objects.

Since man created government to help secure and safeguard [inalienable] rights [from God], it follows that man is superior to government and should remain master over it, not the other way around.

The state is made for man, not man for the state.... That is to say, the state should be our servant and not we its slaves

The footprints of a free-minded man are always towards the forward direction.

Freedom is indivisible, and when one man is enslaved, all are not free.

God bless the Union; - it is dearer to us for the blood of brave men which has been shed in its defence.

liberty is the one thing no man can have unless he grants it to others.

A man who cannot command himself will always be a slave.

To me, an outlaw is a man that did things his own way, whether you liked him or not. I did things my own way.

Men may die, but the fabric of our free institutions remains unshaken.

The Son of Man has authority over whatever has you paralyzed. Get up and walk.

Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

There's no limit to what free men and free women in a free market with free enterprise can accomplish when people are free to follow their dream.

The moment a man claims a right to control the will of a fellow being by physical force, he is at heart a slaveholder.

Liberty is often a heavy burden on a man. It involves the necessity for perpetual choice which is the kind of labor men have always dreaded.