Quotes About Liberty

Here lives a free man. Nobody serves him.

Bacon, Locke, Descartes, Hume, and all the others knew they were giving rights to vulgarity. But in so doing in addition to caring for man's well-being they were providing rights for themselves.

A man is either free or he is not.

It is only when a man is alone that he is really free.

Man usually thinks liberty is the power of doing what he likes to do. That is license.

A man's rights are not violated by a private individual's refusal to deal with him.

No man can have a right to impose an unchosen obligation , an unrewarded duty or an involuntary servitude on another man. There can be no such thing as " the right to enslave .

Remember that rights are moral principles which define and protect a man's freedom of action, but impose no obligations on other men.

Such an explication of Grace as sets men at liberty in morals, makes void the Law through Faith.

I'm very proud that we stood for the proposition that no man, woman or child should ever have to live in tyranny. We believed in democracy and promoted it.

When man has nothing but his will to assert--even his good-will--it is always bullying. Bolshevism is one sort of bullying, capitalism another: and liberty is a change of chains.

No man can suffer too much, and no man can fall too soon, if he suffer or if he fall in defense of the liberties and Constitution of his country.

There is no happiness, there is no liberty, there is no enjoyment of life, unless a man can say, when he rises in the morning, I shall be subject to the decision of no unwise judge today.

I know what you're going to say! 'They are men, and men should be free.' A free man is dangerous to himself and everyone else. Freedom should be left to those who can put it to good use.

No one can take away the freedom of a man's soul.

Liberty is never out of bounds or off limits; it spreads wherever it can capture the imagination of men.

I believe that freedom is a gift from an Almighty to every man, woman, and child; that is a principle that was important to me during my presidency and I think it's an important principle.

The true savage is a slave, and is always talking about what he must do; the true civilised man is a free man, and is always talking about what he may do.

I love my liberty too well to be in a hurry to give it up for any mortal man.

Individual liberty is allowed to man only to a certain extent. He cannot forget that he is a social being and his individual liberty has to be curtailed at every step.

No government on earth can make men, who have realized freedom in their hearts, salute against their will.

What is so beneficial to the people as liberty, which we see not only to be greedily sought after by men, but also by beasts, and to be prepared in all things.

God is not merely interestd in the freedom of brown men, yellow men, red men and black men.He is interested in the freedom of the whole human race.

Men's minds must be free, and that means the minds of all, not the minds of a select few.