Freedom Quotes

"We are prisoners of perception until we understand our imprisonment."

"Being consists in being perceived; this is no limitation but liberation."

"Liberty is when one can say what one thinks."

"Secret accusations and secret judgments are the foundations of tyranny."

"A nation is truly free when citizens obey laws they have prescribed for themselves."

"Liberty requires that laws be clear, fixed, and published."

"Those who would give up essential liberty for temporary security deserve neither."

"When laws are arbitrary, free people become slaves."

"In a despotic state, men are slaves; in a free state, they are citizens."

"Society exists to protect individual liberty, not to restrict it."

"Liberty is the right to do what the law permits."

"Laws exist to preserve society, not to destroy the human spirit."

"The free man is bound by laws, but not enslaved by them."

"True liberty is found not in the absence of law, but in the justice of law."

"A government that fears the truth is a government that has failed."

"Liberty is the natural right of man, and law is the means to preserve it."

"Justice is the pillar upon which a free society must stand."

"Man is not born to bow before rulers, but to be free."

"The path to tyranny paved with regulation and paperwork leads to the loss of liberty."

"Every law is an evil because it is an infraction of liberty."

"Freedom of thought is the foundation of freedom of action."

"Every infringement of human liberty, however small, is an evil."

"A society that values liberty must be prepared to tolerate dissent."

"Virtue is not a burden imposed upon us but a freedom we achieve through discipline."

"Liberty is the natural state of a thinking being; slavery is an aberration."

"Freedom exists to the degree that we understand our own constraints."

"Freedom without responsibility is merely the absence of constraint, not true liberty."

"The exercise of freedom is both our highest privilege and our solemn responsibility."

"The human spirit thrives when freed from the chains of superstition."

"It is better that a man should tyrannise over his bank balance than over his fellow citizens."