Quotes About Liberty

We fight not to enslave, but to set a country free, and to make room upon the earth for honest men to live in.

Men saw the stars at the edge of the sea They thought great thoughts about liberty Poets wrote down words that did fit Writers wrote books Thinkers thought about it.

A thousand men enslaved fear one beast free.

The assertion that 'all men are created equal' was of no practical use in effecting our separation from Great Britain and it was placed in the Declaration not for that, but for future use.

All men are born equally free.

I intend no modification of my oft-expressed wish that all men everywhere could be free.

It is better to let 100 criminals go free than to imprison 1 innocent man.

No one Shall hunger: Man shall spend equally. Our goal which we compel: Man shall be man.

Liberty in thought and action is the only condition of life, growth and well-being: Where it does not exist, the man, the race, and the nation must go down.

We first have to find the way of freedom from involvement before we can introduce freedom in involvement.

I believe in Liberty for all men: the space to stretch their arms and their souls.

The only rational liberty is that which is born of subjection, reared in the fear of God and the love of man.

Alas, why will a man spend months trying to hand over his liberty to a woman--and the rest of his life trying to get it back again?

Freedom is the most contagious virus known to man.

It is not by great acts but by small failures that freedom dies. . . . Justice and liberty die quietly, because men first learn to ignore injustice and then no longer recognize it.

The man is free who is protected from injury.

It's one of the most fundamental desires of man, of being free and flying unhindered, and it really seems to go a lot with our founding fathers' principles of freedom.

Can freedom become a burden, too heavy for man to bear, something he tries to escape from?..Is there not also, perhaps, besides an innate desire for freedom, an instinctive wish for submission?

This is true liberty, when free-born men, having to advise the public, may speak free.

Man's liberty ends, and it ought to end, when that liberty becomes the curse of its neighbors.

To drag a man in fetters into the grand illuminated temple of liberty, and call upon him to join you in joyous anthems, were inhuman mockery and sacrilegious irony.

True liberty acknowledges and defends the equal rights of all men, and all nations.

I believe in the complete freedom of thought and speech - alike for the humblest man and the mightiest, and in the utmost freedom of conduct that is consistent with living in organized society.

Those who won our independence believed that the final end of the state was to make men free to develop their faculties.