Quotes About Liberty

Our moneyed men have ruled us for the past thirty years. Under the flag of the slaveholder they hoped to destroy our liberty.

If you set out to seek freedom, then learn above all things to govern your soul and your senses . . . only through discipline may a man learn to be free.

I express many absurd opinions. But I am not the first man to do it; American freedom consists largely in talking nonsense.

Justice, like liberty and coercion, is a concept which, for the sake of clarity, ought to be confined to the deliberate treatment of men by other men.

Man is created free, and is free, even though born in chains.

To me it seems that liberty and virtue were made for each other. If any man wish to enslave his country, nothing is a fitter preparative than vice; and nothing leads to vice so surely as irreligion.

A man was the sum of his limits; freedom only made him see how much so.

The taste which men have for liberty and that which they feel for equality are, in fact, two different things...among democratic nations they are two unequal things.

Swords were given to men, that none might be Slaves, but such as know not how to use them.

There is nothing to take a man's freedom away from him, save other men.

Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, the chief glory of man.

Men have always been obliged to fight to preserve liberty. Constitutions and laws do not safeguard liberty. It can be preserved only by a tolerant people, and this means eternal conflict.

If Nixon is not forced to turn over tapes of his conversations with the ring of men who were conversing on their violations of the law, then liberty will soon be dead in this nation.

The greatest inheritance that a man hath is the liberty of his person, for all others are accessory to it.

Man is not fully free unless he is master of himself.

No man is truly free who is in financial bondage. 'Think what you do when you run in debt', said Benjamin Franklin, 'you give another power over your liberty.'

Liberty of speech invites and provokes liberty to be used again, and so bringeth much to a man's knowledge.

In spite of Jean-Jacques and his school, men are not everywhere born free, any more than they are everywhere in chains, unless these be of their own individual making.

Liberty'''.that condition of man in which coercion of some by others is reduced as much as possible in society

There is nothing more alluring to man than freedom of conscience, but neither is there anything more agonizing.

I believe that man is in the last resort so free a being that his right to be what he believes himself to be cannot be contested.

The man or country that fights priestcraft and priests is to my mind striking deeper for freedom than can be struck anywhere.

Make men large and strong and tyranny will bankrupt itself in making shackles for them.

If the words 'life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness' don't include the right to experiment with your own consciousness, then the Declaration of Independence isn't worth the hemp it was written on.