Quotes About Liberty

Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master.

Too much liberty leads both men and nations to slavery.

Man is free; yet we must not suppose that he is at liberty to do everything he pleases, for he becomes a slave the moment he allows his actions to be ruled by passion.

The Conservative knows that to regard man as part of an undifferentiated mass is to consign him to ultimate slavery.

The quest for freedom, dignity, and the rights of man will never end.

The man who does as he likes is the greatest slave. The man who never does as he likes is God's free man.

Throughout history, government has proved to be the chief instrument for thwarting man's liberty.

You can't conquer a free man; the most you can do is kill him.

Man is a free agent; but he is not free if he does not believe it.

The real democratic American idea is, not that every man shall be on a level with every other man, but that every man shall have liberty to be what God made him, without hindrance.

Every man is free to do that which he wills, provided he infringes not the equal freedom of any other man.

Liberty isn't a thing you are given as a present. You can be a free man under a dictatorship. It is sufficient if you struggle against it.

Freedom is not free. Free men are not equal. Equal men are not free.

Freedom is born of self-discipline. No individual, no nation, can achieve or maintain liberty without self-control. The undisciplined man (or woman) is a slave to his own weaknesses.

No matter what a man does, he is not fully sane or human unless there is a spirit of freedom in him, a soul unconfined by purpose and larger than the practicable world.

Responsibility is the price every man must pay for freedom.

Money is coined liberty, and so it is ten times dearer to a man who is deprived of freedom. If money is jingling in his pocket, he is half consoled, even though he cannot spend it.

A man who believes in freedom will do anything under the sun to acquire, or preserve his freedom.

It appears first, that liberty is a natural, and government an adventitious right, because all men were originally free.

He was not bound. No one led him by the arm. He got out of the carriage as if he were a free man.

For that which you mention concerning liberty of conscience, I meddle not with any man's conscience.

There is no more fundamental axiom of American freedom than the familiar statement: In a free country we punish men for the crimes they commit but never for the opinions they have.

It is far better for a man to go wrong in freedom than to go right in chains.

Whenever a free man is in chains we are threatened also. Whoever is fighting for liberty is defending America.