Quotes about Liberty
I intend no modification of my oft-expressed wish that all men everywhere could be free.
- Abraham Lincoln
I am for those who believe in loose delights, I share the midnight orgies of young men, I dance with the dancers and drink with the drinkers.
- Walt Whitman
This is true liberty, when free-born men, having to advise the public, may speak free.
- Euripides
My faith in the proposition that each man should do precisely as he pleases with all which is exclusively his own lies at the foundation of the sense of justice there is in me.
- Abraham Lincoln
What I do say is, that no man is good enough to govern another man, without that other's consent. I say this is the leading principle - the sheet anchor of American republicanism.
- Abraham Lincoln
Our doctrine of equality and liberty and humanity comes from our belief in the brotherhood of man, through the fatherhood of God.
- Calvin Coolidge
That government is best which governs not at all; and when men are prepared for it, that will be the kind of government which they will have.
- Henry David Thoreau
When complaints are freely heard, deeply considered and speedily reformed, then is the utmost bound of civil liberty attained that wise men look for.
- John Milton
The laws of man may bind him in chains or may put him to death, but they never can make him wise, virtuous, or happy.
- John Quincy Adams
It is a maxim that no man was ever enslaved by influence while he was fit to be free.
- Samuel Johnson
All men are created equal.
- Thomas Jefferson
If you set out to seek freedom, then learn above all things to govern your soul and your senses . . . only through discipline may a man learn to be free.
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer