Freedom Quotes

"The very foundation of the Constitution rests upon the principle of free individual action."

"The liberty of the press is essential to the security of freedom in a state."

"The people who make up a society shape the destiny of that society through the choices they make."

"The preservation of sacred fire of liberty is a charge committed to us."

"The separation of powers is the foundation of all free government."

"Liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people."

"The separation of powers is the best security of liberty."

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

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

"Our security is in our liberty, and our liberty depends on the virtue of the people."

"The multiplicity of laws makes a nation unfit for freedom."

"The way to secure liberty is to place it in the people's hands, to educate and inform them."

"Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness."

"The heart of a patriot is bound by no geographical limits."

"Liberty is not merely a privilege granted to the few, but a birthright for all humanity."

"The most important of all rights is the right to think freely."

"The human spirit craves liberty as the body craves sustenance."

"The greatest inheritance is not wealth but a legacy of freedom."

"Freedom without responsibility is merely license for destruction."

"Freedom purchased through dishonor is a hollow victory."

"Freedom purchased with another's suffering is slavery in disguise."

"He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression."

"Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must undergo the fatigues of supporting it."

"I have always strenuously supported the right of every man to his own opinion, however different that opinion might be to mine."

"It is forbidden to forbid."

"The only security of all is in a free press."

"I have always considered the independence of the press as the foundation of all the civil liberties of a people."

"Individuality is the aim of political liberty."

"Every age and generation must be as free to act for itself in all cases as the ages and generations which preceded it."

"The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance."