Quotes About Liberty

It is necessary to curb the power of government. This is the task of all constitutions, bills of rights and laws. This is the meaning of all struggles which men have fought for liberty.

To the free man, the country is the collection of individuals who compose it, not something over and above them.

Those who would be called tyrants cannot be called free men.

Not for any one man's delight has Nature made the sun, the wind, the waters; all are free.

Liberty is precious. But so is life. It should not be so difficult for men and women of good will and good heart and sound mind to find the right balance between the two.

What good in a man's life if it's not lived free eh?

You know what they say: A woman needs a man about as much as a fish needs a bicycle.

Only the history of free peoples is worth our attention; the history of men under a despotism is merely a collection of anecdotes.

My only concern is to set men absolutely, unconditionally free.

Every man or woman who makes a stand helps keep the flame of freedom burning.

Just as man must have liberty to think and speak, so he must have liberty in food, dress, and marriage, and in every other thing, so long as he does not injure others.

Man's free agency is not of the mind, for that is bound. There is no freedom there.

The Constitution is a delusion and a snare if the weakest and humblest man in the land cannot be defended in his right to speak and his right to think as much as the strongest in the land.

many men have too much Free-will, and take to themselves too free liberty now a days to advance and maintain free will.

... resistance to tyranny is man's highest ideal.

No man is free who is not master of himself... Is freedom anything else than the power of living as we choose?

We must recognize the fundamental rights of man. There can be no true national life in our democracy unless we give unqualified recognition to freedom of religious worship and freedom of education.

Free men are the strongest men.

I think the authors of that notable instrument [the Declaration of Independence] intended to include all men.

I wish all men to be free. I wish the material prosperity of the already free which I feel sure the extinction of slavery would bring.

Every man has a right to be equal with every other man.

I never knew a man who wished to be himself a slave. Consider if you know any good thing, that no man desires for himself.

Men may be born free; they cannot be born wise; and it is the duty of the university to make the free wise.

Arbitrariness and true liberty are as distinct from each other that the empirical nature is distinct from the higher nature of man.