Quotes about Liberty
The spirit of liberalism is to create free men; it is not the regimentation of men.
- Herbert Hoover
Close by the Rights of Man, at the least set beside them, are the Rights of the Spirit.
- Victor Hugo
Nothing is unchangeable but the inherent and unalienable rights of man.
- Thomas Jefferson
Men fight for liberty and win it with hard knocks. Their children, brought up easy, let it slip away again, poor fools. And their grandchildren are once more slaves.
- DH Lawrence
Once a man has tasted freedom he will never be content to be a slave.
- Walt Disney
Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
- Abraham Lincoln
Liberty is often a heavy burden on a man. It involves the necessity for perpetual choice which is the kind of labor men have always dreaded.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
The man who does as he likes is the greatest slave. The man who never does as he likes is God's free man.
- G Campbell Morgan
The real democratic American idea is, not that every man shall be on a level with every other man, but that every man shall have liberty to be what God made him, without hindrance.
- Henry Ward Beecher
There is no more fundamental axiom of American freedom than the familiar statement: In a free country we punish men for the crimes they commit but never for the opinions they have.
- Harry S. Truman
No man in his senses can hesitate in choosing to be free, rather than a slave.
- Alexander Hamilton
Individual freedom must be established before corporate freedom can be realized, but
- Neil Anderson