Quotes About Freedom

I was brought up by two extremely intelligent people who gave me the greatest gift that man can give anyone, and that is freedom from fear.

Man's mind and spirit grow with the space in which they are allowed to operate.

All men have inalienable rights to think freely, to talk freely, to write freely their own opinions and to counter or utter or write upon the opinions of others.

I preferred measuring deer tracks to tape - that I liked the wild liberty of the Red men better then the tyranny of my brothers.

No provision in our Constitution ought to be dearer to man than that which protects the rights of conscience against the enterprises of the civil authority.

My God died young. Theolatry i found Degrading, and its premises, unsound. No free man needs God; but was I free?

Among men who are really free, every form of industry becomes more rapidly improved - all the arts flourish more gracefully - all the sciences extend their range.

I must create a system, or be enslav'd by another man's.

In every cry of every man, In every infant's cry of fear, In every voice, in every ban, The mind-forg'd manacles I hear.

Conscience, that boon companion who sets a man free under the strong breastplate of innocence, that bids him on and fear not.

All men are created equal. After that, it's up to you.

The great inlet by which a colour for oppression has entered into the world is by one man's pretending to determine concerning the happiness of another.

The state of sleep is a state of freedom in which man is not occupied with the manipulation of the outside world.

All men are created equal and endowed by their Creator with a mighty urge to become otherwise.

It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to lose liberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man's self.

Necessitous men are not free men.

The more men you make free, the more freedom is strengthened, and the more men you give an interest in the welfare and safety of the State, the greater is the security of the State.

A man without an address is a vagabond; a man with two addresses is a libertine.

It is our boast, that a man's religious tenets will not forfeit the protection of the Laws.

All men are by nature born equally free and independent.

In a free society the state does not administer the affairs of men. It administers justice among men who conduct their own affairs.

Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.

Today, our brave military men and women, just as those who have gone before them, stand on alert, securing freedom at home and guarding the innocent abroad.

Freedom of the press belongs to the man who owns one.