Freedom Quotes

"Among the natural rights of the colonists are these: First, a right to life; Secondly to liberty; Thirdly to property."

"A free people ought not only to be armed and disciplined, but they should have sufficient arms and ammunition to maintain a status of independence from any who might attempt to abuse them."

"When the people fear the government, there is tyranny. When the government fears the people, there is liberty."

"The Constitution shall never be construed to prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms."

"Driven from every other corner of the earth, freedom of thought and the right of private judgment in matters of conscience direct their course to this happy country as their last asylum."

"The liberties of our country, the freedom of our civil constitution, are worth defending at all hazards."

"A general dissolution of principles and manners will more surely overthrow the liberties of America than the whole force of the common enemy."

"Vigilance is the price of liberty."

"Happy will be the day when the people shall consent to be free."

"There is nothing so fretting and vexatious, nothing so justly terrible to tyrants, as a people determined to be free."

"This shall be the test of a free man,—that he may speak his opinion freely."

"The right to freedom being the gift of God Almighty, it is not in the power of any man to alienate this gift."

"The public liberty will not long survive the destruction of private liberty."

"The press shall be free as long as the presses run."

"Nip the shoots of arbitrary power in the bud, is the only maxim which can ever preserve the liberties of any people."

"It appears to me that if the grievances of the colonies were to be removed, the main object of the revolution would be obtained."

"The people themselves must be competent to judge of the measures undertaken in their name."

"The preservation of the means of knowledge is the preservation of freedom."

"The use of the military to enforce the law is a dangerous precedent."

"It is my opinion that every man of mature age and sound mind, ought to have a voice in this matter."

"Let each of you decide whether you will be free men or slaves."

"The liberty of the press being essential to the security of freedom in a state, every attempt to restrain it ought to be resisted."

"The liberties of a people never were, nor ever will be, secure, when the transactions of their rulers are concealed from them."

"Among the natural rights of the colonists are these: first, a right to life; secondly to liberty; thirdly to property; together with the right to support and defend them in the best manner they can."

"Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it."

"The price of freedom is eternal vigilance against those who would take it away."

"No man is truly free unless all men around him are free."

"I would rather live one day as a free man than a lifetime as a slave."

"The freedom of speech is the foundation upon which all other freedoms rest."

"The freedom to choose is what makes us truly human."