Quotes About Liberty

I think any man would be nervous if his liberty is at stake.

Where men cannot freely convey their thoughts to one another, no other liberty is secure.

Civil liberty is the status of the man who is guaranteed by law and civil institutions the exclusive employment of all his own powers for his own welfare.

American liberty is premised on the accountability of free men and women for what they have done, not for what they may do.

I believe the declaration that 'all men are created equal' is the great fundamental principle upon which our free institutions rest.

Man has the right . . . to play as he will . . . to think what he will: to speak what he will: to write what he will: to draw, paint, carve, etch, mould, build as he will: to dress as he will.

It must not be forgotten that it is especially dangerous to enslave men in the minor details of life.

To be free, a man must be free of his brothers. That is freedom. That and nothing else.

But what is freedom? Freedom from what? There is nothing to take a man's freedom away from him, save other men. To be free, a man must be free of his brothers. That is freedom. That and nothing else.

I believe in freedom for everyone, not just the black man.

Boys forget what their country means by just reading "the land of the free" in history books. Then they get to be men, they forgeteven more. Liberty's too precious a thing to be buried in books.

A hungry man is not a free man. Freedom from hunger is a fundamental right. Without this freedom, such fundamental right cannot exist.

The woman has the right to be emancipated from the position of a drudge or a toy. She is entitled to a full equality in rights with man.

Against us are all timid men who prefer the calm of despotism to the boisterous sea of liberty We are likely to preserve the liberty we have obtained only by unremitting labors and perils.

All men have equal rights to liberty, to their property, and to the protection of the laws

Christianity promises to make men free; it never promises to make them independent.

Every man may claim the fullest liberty to exercise his faculties compatible with the possession of like liberties by every other man.

The bird, the best, the fisch eke in the see,They live in fredome, everich in his kynd.And I a man, and lakkith libertee.

Liberty is not to be found in any form of government; she is in the heart of the free man; he bears her with him everywhere.

The party should stand for a constantly wider diffusion of property. That is the greatest social and economic security that can come to free men. It makes men free.

There are men who strike at liberty under the term licentiousness

As He died to make men holy, let us live to make men free.

Surely this new age is not a repudiation of, but a fulfillment of, the American dream. What were the machines for, unless to give man a new freedom to choose how he would live?

The freedom of man, I contend, is the freedom to eat.