Quotes About Liberty

When human statecraft attaches a chain to the feet of a free man, whom it makes a slave in contempt of nature and citizenship, eternal justice rivets the other end about the tyrant's neck.

"All men are born equal and free" is not Nature's law in the literal sense.

Every man by nature is a freeman born; by nature no man cometh out of the womb under any civil subjection to king, prince, or judge.

People would rather be equal thank free.

Is It Frightening To Be Free?""You said it.""You Say To People 'Throw Off Your Chains' And They Make New Chains For Themselves?""Seems to be a major human activity, yes.

Human nature is universally imbued with a desire for liberty, and a hatred for servitude.

I have not sought during my life to amass wealth and to adorn my body, but I have sought to adorn my soul with the jewels of wisdom, patience, and above all with a love of liberty.

Liberty? Independence? Are they to remain only words? Gentlemen, let us make them fighting words!

Lethargy is the forerunner of death to the public liberty.

There are temptations more attractive than angels. Liberty, Patriotism, the good of humanity – words like that are the silver scales of the Tempter's flaming wings

We are called the nation of inventors. And we are. We could still claim that title and wear its loftiest honors if we had stopped with the first thing we ever invented, which was human liberty.

I die content, I die for the liberty of my country.

I am not going to talk about patriotism, duty, liberty, and the defense of freedom because that's all dung to a soldier.

We live in a free country. While patriotism is important, liberty of thought and liberty of expression are even more important.

Den I wish I was in Dixie Hooray! Hooray! In Dixie Land I'll take my stand To lib and die in Dixie.

Well, if crime fighters fight crime and fire fighters fight fire, what do freedom fighters fight?

We do not want the peace of slaves nor the peace of the grave.

Freedom is dearer than bread or joy.

The generation which lived through the Second World War is disappearing. Post-war generations see Europe's great achievements - liberty, peace and prosperity - as a given.

We can have peace and brotherly love by accepting our responsibility to preserve freedom.

Where there are too many policemen, there is no liberty. Where there are too many soldiers, there is no peace. Where there are too many lawyers, there is no justice.

Peace is freedom in tranquility.

Peace will never be entirely secure until men everywhere have learned to conquer poverty without sacrificing liberty or security.

Freedom is indivisible; the chains on any one of my people were the chains on all of them, the chains on all of my people were the chains on me.