Quotes About Liberty

This, then, is freedom in the external life of man-that he is independent of the arbitrary power of his fellows.

Tremble not before the free man, but before the slave who has chains to break.

People must not think that all bad in man which is unleashed, the moment you impose censorship disappears from man.

Men would rather be starving and free than fed in bonds.

Infidels in all ages have battled for the rights of man, and have at all times been the fearless advocates of liberty and justice.

My faith in the proposition that each man should do precisely as he pleases with all which is exclusively his own lies at the foundation of the sense of justice there is in me.

Our officers and men behaved like men who are determined to be free.

Only free men are thoroughly grateful one to another.

If I can go through life free and rich, I shall not cry because my neighbor, equally free, is richer. Liberty will ultimately make all men rich; it will not make all men equally rich.

Our doctrine of equality and liberty and humanity comes from our belief in the brotherhood of man, through the fatherhood of God.

The freedom of man is, in political liberalism, freedom from persons, from personal dominion, from the master; the securing of each individual person against other persons, personal freedom.

Liberty, as well as honor, man ought to preserve at the hazard of his life, for without it life is insupportable

If God is, man is a slave; now, man can and must be free; then, God does not exist. I defy anyone whomsoever to avoid this circle; now, therefore, let all choose.

No trace of slavery ought to mix with the studies of the freeborn man. No study, pursued under compulsion, remains rooted in the memory.

Liberty is slow fruit. It is never cheap; it is made difficult because freedom is the accomplishment and perfectness of man.

That government is best which governs not at all; and when men are prepared for it, that will be the kind of government which they will have.

One of the most essential branches of English liberty is the freedom of one's house. A man's house is his castle.

When complaints are freely heard, deeply considered and speedily reformed, then is the utmost bound of civil liberty attained that wise men look for.

No man who knows aught, can be so stupid to deny that all men naturally were born free.

The laws of man may bind him in chains or may put him to death, but they never can make him wise, virtuous, or happy.

It is a maxim that no man was ever enslaved by influence while he was fit to be free.

All men are created equal.

An avidity to punish is always dangerous to liberty. It leads men to stretch, to misinterpret, and to misapply even the best of laws.

Liberty is the most jealous and exacting mistress that can beguile the brain and soul of man.