Quotes About Liberty

ANARCHY, or the government of each man by himself or as the English say, self -government.

By nature all men are equal in liberty, but not in other endowments.

The only security men can have for their political liberty, consists in keeping their money in their own pockets.

By liberty I mean the assurance that every man shall be protected in doing what he believes to be his duty against the influences of authority and majorities, custom and opinion.

He does not seem to me to be a free man who does not sometimes do nothing.

Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains. Those who think themselves the masters of others are indeed greater slaves than they.

All men have inalienable rights to think freely, to talk freely, to write freely their own opinions and to counter or utter or write upon the opinions of others.

Liberty is of more value than any gifts; and to receive gifts is to lose it. Be assured that men most commonly seek to oblige thee only that they may engage thee to serve them.

I preferred measuring deer tracks to tape - that I liked the wild liberty of the Red men better then the tyranny of my brothers.

No provision in our Constitution ought to be dearer to man than that which protects the rights of conscience against the enterprises of the civil authority.

Among men who are really free, every form of industry becomes more rapidly improved - all the arts flourish more gracefully - all the sciences extend their range.

It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to lose liberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man's self.

Necessitous men are not free men.

All men are by nature born equally free and independent.

I believe that every individual is naturally entitled to do as he pleases with himself and the fruits of his labor, so far as it in no way interferes with any other men's rights.

It's a poor kind of man that won't fight for his own freedom.

. . . the man is free, we say, who exists for his own sake and not for another's.

Is any man free except the one who can pass his life as he pleases?

A man has to construct, invent, his freedom.

A caged canary is secure; but it is not free. It is easier for free men to resist terrorism from afar than tyranny from within.

The law will never make a man free; it is men who have got to make the law free.

Free men are not equal and equal men are not free.

The conscience is the sacred haven of the liberty of man.

The end of all political associations is the preservation of the natural and imprescriptible rights of man; and these rights are liberty, property, security, and resistance of oppression.