Quotes About Liberty

When man, governed by reasonable laws, enjoys his natural freedom, let him despise woman, if she do not share it with him.

The birthright of man ... is such a degree of liberty, civil and religious, as is compatible with the liberty of every other individual with whom he is united in a social compact.

Permit no man to be a king and permit also no man to be a slave!

A free horse where there is no man on its saddle always looks more beautiful than a slave horse with a man on its saddle!

The forests have taught man liberty.

Liberty is the hardest test that one can inflict on a people. To know how to be free is not given equally to all men and all nations.

I think of the Sixties as being every man for himself.

Can man be free if woman be a slave?

I am he / Who champions total liberty - / Intolerance being, ma'am, a state / No tolerant man can tolerate.

These are not free men in any rational and exact sense of the word.

We want a state of things in which crime will not pay, a state of things which allows every man the largest liberty compatible with the liberty of every other man.

A man is entitled to say whatever he wants to say. It's America, freedom of speech.

Men talk of freedom! How many are free to think? Free from fear, from perturbation, from prejudice? Nine hundred and ninety-nine in a thousand are perfect slaves.

Men spend the best parts of their lives earning money in order to enjoy a questionable liberty during the least valuable part of it.

The man who takes the liberty to live is superior to all the laws, by virtue of his relation to the lawmaker.

There is no liberty to men who know not how to govern themselves.

The spark of liberty in the mind and spirit of man cannot be long extinguished; it will break into flames that will destroy every coercion which seems to limit it.

I will live and die by this testimony: that I loved a good conscience; that I never invaded another man's liberty; and that I preserved my own.

Ludwig von Mises referred to Ayn Rand as 'the most courageous man in America.' If that doesn't say it all about the economist's man-centric frame of reference, I don't know what does.

If for harming himself a man forfeits his freedom, then he is not free at all.

The moment that law is destroyed, liberty is lost, and men, left free to enter upon the domains of each other, destroy each other's rights, and invade the field of each other's liberty.

Laws are the very bulkwarks of liberty; they define every man's rights, and defend the individual liberties of all men.

I have dashed across continents and oceans as a fugitive and have matched my wits with the police and secret agents seeking to deprive me of one of the greatest blessings man can have-liberty.

The plight of modern man is that he is condemmed to be free.