Freedom Quotes

"The attempt to escape the political merely places one under the decisions of others."

"Liberty is not the absence of all restraint, but restraint by law."

"Freedom means nothing if you cannot choose your own path, even the wrong one."

"Freedom is the only unoriginated birthright of all humans."

"Autonomy is the ground of human dignity."

"The will is free when it acts according to its own laws."

"Freedom of thought is the foundation of all other freedoms."

"A free man thinks of nothing less than of death, and his wisdom is a meditation not on death but on life."

"There is no external torture that can compel me to believe what is false."

"The free man is he who is led by reason alone."

"Bondage is the human condition when we are passively affected by external causes."

"Freedom and equality are not in conflict but mutually reinforcing."

"Justice requires that basic liberties be equally distributed among all citizens."

"Free and equal citizens can disagree reasonably while sharing commitment to fair principles."

"The basic rights of conscience and expression must be protected in any just society."

"Freedom is the recognition of necessity"

"The essence of freedom is choice"

"The individual achieves freedom through participation in the universal"

"Freedom without responsibility is chaos"

"Freedom is not freedom to do what you like, but freedom to do what you ought."

"The natural liberty of man is to be free from any superior power."

"The preservation and enlargement of the liberties is the great and ultimate end of men uniting into commonwealths."

"Every man is entitled to liberty by the law of nature."

"The freedom then of man and liberty of acting according to his own will, is grounded on his having reason."

"Slavery is so vile and miserable an estate of man that nothing can be preferred to it."

"Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom."

"Liberty consisteth in the silence of the law."

"The right of nature is the liberty each man hath to use his own power."

"A man that has no assurance of the power and means to live well cannot make use of the liberty which the sovereign allows him."

"Liberty is the perfection of civil society"