Freedom Quotes

"The accused has the right to know his accuser, the charges against him, and the evidence offered against him."

"The right to be tried by a jury of one's peers is the last bulwark against judicial tyranny."

"The man who obeys the law from fear alone is no law-abiding citizen, but a coerced subject."

"Freedom of thought is meaningless without freedom of speech and freedom to act on that speech."

"The man who cannot be tried in open court, with witnesses he can cross-examine, is not truly a man but a slave."

"The right to remain silent is not the right of the guilty; it is the right of the innocent against false accusation."

"The law that cannot be questioned is tyranny; the law that must be questioned is the foundation of liberty."

"The pursuit of happiness is our fundamental right."

"Freedom is the foundation of all happiness."

"Self-determination is the right of all rational beings."

"The individual is not truly free unless he is economically secure."

"Emergencies have always been the pretext on which the safeguards of individual liberty have been eroded"

"Few trends could so thoroughly undermine the very foundation of freedom as the acceptance of the principle that the state is responsible for security"

"Economic freedom is a prerequisite for all other freedoms"

"The test of a free society is not its comfort but its willingness to tolerate dissent"

"Freedom of thought requires freedom of expression and freedom of movement"

"What is called planning is often the suppression of others' plans"

"Liberty means that others can make choices you disagree with"

"The test of progress is whether we allow others to live as they wish"

"Freedom without wisdom is merely the license to cause harm."

"Freedom is the burden of choice and the responsibility for consequences."

"Repressing our physical nature leads only to hypocrisy and misery."

"The slave who denies his chains is more enslaved than he knows."

"Liberty consists in the unrestricted exercise of our natural capacities."

"Chastity is but a word invented to control our natural inclinations."

"What we call freedom is the machine operating without external constraint."

"Individual effort and initiative, not centralized planning, drives human progress."

"The greatest threat to freedom is the gradual erosion of responsibility."

"Freedom consists in the mind's liberation from false certainties."

"We are enslaved by our assumptions about the nature of reality."