Quotes about Liberty

There is no more painful bondage than to be at the mercy of one's inclinations; no greater liberty than utmost obedience to the Law of Being. And the Law is that the heart shall be purified, the mind regenerated, and the whole being brought in subjection to Love till self is dead and Love is all in all, for the reign of Law is the reign of Love.

The greater a man's folly, the greater his enslavement. The wiser a man is, the greater his freedom.

We are never so free as when we own our sacred serfdom...

There are no limits to growth and human progress when men and women are free to follow their dreams.

Women ought to be free - as free as we are,' he declared, making a discovery of which he was too irritated to measure the terrific consequences.

I think a lot of people in America do not understand that the basis of true liberty can't happen without an objective moral standard by which we live our lives.

Only the man who says no is free

By nature all men are equal in liberty, but not in other endowments.

No provision in our Constitution ought to be dearer to man than that which protects the rights of conscience against the enterprises of the civil authority.

I believe that every individual is naturally entitled to do as he pleases with himself and the fruits of his labor, so far as it in no way interferes with any other men's rights.

. . . the man is free, we say, who exists for his own sake and not for another's.

We fight not to enslave, but to set a country free, and to make room upon the earth for honest men to live in.