Freedom Quotes

"Freedom is not the ability to do whatever you want, but the strength to do what is right."

"In questions of conscience, the law of the land has no place."

"Every human being is an end in himself, never a means to another's end."

"The only unalienable right is the right to freedom of thought."

"To be free is to act in accordance with reason."

"We are condemned to be free; freedom is an inescapable burden."

"True freedom is the ability to act according to your own reason."

"Freedom as fairness requires that basic liberties be equally distributed among all members of society."

"A just society protects the equal basic liberties of all its citizens above all other considerations."

"Reasonable pluralism means citizens will hold different comprehensive views, and this is not a defect but a feature of free societies."

"Citizens have the moral power to form, revise, and pursue their own conception of the good life."

"A just basic structure protects citizens' ability to participate meaningfully in democratic processes."

"The worth of liberty depends on citizens' capacity to pursue their conception of the good life."

"The lexical priority of liberty means basic freedoms cannot be sacrificed for economic or social gains."

"Citizens in a democracy must be able to see themselves as authors of its laws."

"The principles of justice protect citizens from arbitrary exercises of political power."

"Just institutions provide the framework within which individuals can pursue their personal projects and relationships."

"The real and effectual discipline which nature imposes upon mankind is perfect liberty."

"Liberty is the greatest of all moral sentiments."

"The rules of justice are the rules of natural liberty."

"It is the systems of natural liberty which the division of labour affords."

"The chief security against a tyranny is the freedom of the press."

"The security of the people does not depend upon the strength of the state."

"Freedom is not doing what you want, but rather willing what you ought."

"Freedom is the alignment of will with reason and necessity."

"He alone is free who lives entirely under the dictate of reason."

"A person is free when his thoughts and actions flow from his own nature."

"External causes cannot determine the mind to think."

"A free man's life is lived under the guidance of reason alone."

"What determines us to act is always our own nature, not external causes."