Freedom Quotes

"A standing military force is dangerous to a free people."

"To the press alone, chequered as it is with abuses, the world is indebted for all the triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity."

"The preservation of liberty requires constant vigilance."

"A nation may lose its liberties in a day and not miss them in a century."

"The free exercise of religion is the right of every man."

"Protect the rights and liberties of the people in each state."

"A people armed and free, forms a barrier against the enterprises of ambition."

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

"America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves."

"The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people; it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government."

"The great unalienable rights of mankind, the foundation of all our independence."

"I know not what course others may take, but as for me and my house, we shall be free."

"Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty."

"Our chains are forged! Their clanking may be heard on the plains of Boston!"

"Liberty warrants us in every forceful means to maintain it, except what is base and dishonorable."

"Three millions of people, so dead to all the feelings of liberty, as voluntarily to submit to slavery?"

"Freedom does not mean the absence of all restraint, but rather the right restraint of liberty."

"Our posterity will exclaim, we are not free."

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

"It is the nature and the privilege, I might almost say, of a free people, so to frame their government."

"There is a principle about the tree of liberty: it must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots."

"The freedom which we prize is not mere freedom from constraint, but freedom to become our best selves."

"If we wish to be free, we must fight to remain so."

"Silence is sometimes an art, but it should never be the art of the free."

"Liberty and safety are not incompatible; they are the foundation of each other."

"I would rather die on my feet than live on my knees."

"A free people will never consent to be governed by a distant tyrant."

"Our future is not written by the strong, but by those with the courage to write it themselves."

"The best we can hope for concerning the people at large is that they be properly armed."

"The loss of liberty is the loss of all."