Freedom Quotes

"I must claim my birthright."

"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure."

"I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man."

"The price of freedom is eternal vigilance."

"I am mortified to be told that, in the United States of America, the sale of a book can become a subject of inquiry, and of criminal inquiry too."

"The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time."

"I think all the world would gain by setting commerce at liberty."

"The only guarantee of our rights is their exercise."

"I have sworn upon the altar of God eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man, and I am so sure that you will join me in this sentiment."

"The spirit of slavery did not depart without bloodshed; and it will not depart from this country without bloodshed."

"I am not going to spend my life being a slave to the idea that I am a slave."

"My people will be free; this I know for a certainty."

"I have never yet found that slavery agreed with my constitution."

"I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being."

"I claim to have been a slave, and now I claim to be free."

"Now, let it be borne in mind that the Boston tea party was mere child's play to the oppression we have endured."

"I feel assured that there is no cause now in this world so holy as the cause of human freedom."

"The Bible and the Declaration of Independence are both documents of human liberation."

"The day of compromise with slavery is past."

"The chains of slavery cannot bind the human spirit."

"The cause of freedom demands all that we can give."

"The enemy of freedom is indifference, not opposition."

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

"The establishment of civil and religious liberty was the motive that induced me to the field of battle."

"The preservation of the sacred fire of liberty and the destiny of the republican model of government are justly considered as finally staked on the experiment entrusted to the hands of the American people."

"I beg you be persuaded that no one would be more zealous than myself to establish effectual barriers against the horrors of spiritual tyranny and every species of religious persecution."

"The people shall be free."

"I have always given it as my decided opinion that no nation had a right to intermeddle in the internal concerns of another, that every nation had a right to adopt whatever form of government it thought proper for itself."

"The time is near at hand which must determine whether Americans are to be free men or slaves."

"The preservation of the sacred fire of liberty is finally staked on the experiment entrusted to the hands of the American people."