Quotes About Liberty

There can be but little liberty on earth while men worship a tyrant in heaven.

Men's consciences ought in no sort to be violated, urged, or constrained.

All men are created equal. Now matter how hard they try, they can never erase those words. That is what America is about.

Let men not ask what the law requires, but give whatever freedom demands.

Men fight for liberty and win it with hard knocks. Their children, brought up easy, let it slip away again, poor fools. And their grandchildren are once more slaves.

The Fifth Amendment is an old friend and a good friend, one of the great landmarks in men's struggle to be free of tyranny, to be decent and civilized.

Once a man has tasted freedom he will never be content to be a slave.

The makers of our Constitution . . . conferred, as against the government, the right to be let alone - the most comprehensive of rights and the right most valued by civilized men.

As long as men are free to ask what they must, free to say what they think, free to think what they will, freedom can never be lost and science can never regress.

The time is near at hand which must determine whether Americans are to be free men or slaves.

Free men have arms; slaves do not.

This freedom, this liberty, this beautiful and terrible thing, needful to man as air, usable as earth.

Any alleged 'right' of one man, which necessitates the violation of the rights of another, is not and cannot be a right.

The truly great man is he who would master no one, and who would be mastered by none.

The man who asks of freedom anything other than itself is born to be a slave.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Mental slavery is mental death, and every man who has given up his intellectual freedom is the living coffin of his dead soul.

A free man must not be told how to think, either by the government or by social activists. He may certainly be shown the right way, but he must not accept being forced into it.

At times history and fate meet at a single time in a single place to shape a turning point in man's unending search for freedom.