Quotes about Liberty

What to the Slave is the 4th of July?

Liberty is meaningless where the right to utter one's thoughts and opinions has ceased to exist. That, of all rights, is the dread of tyrants. It is the right which they first of all strike down. They know its power. Thrones, dominions, principalities, and powers, founded in injustice and wrong, are sure to tremble, if men are allowed to reason.

I will give Mr. Freeland the credit of being the best master I ever had, till I became my own master.

Who would be free themselves must strike the blow...I urge you to fly to arms and smite to death the power that would bury the Government and your liberty in the same hopeless grave. This is your golden opportunity.

Education means emancipation. It means light and liberty. It means the uplifting of the soul of man into the glorious light of truth, the light by which men can only be made free.

Once you learn to read, you'll be forever free.

And I remember that God reigns in eternity, and that whatever delays, whatever disappointments and discouragements may come, truth, justice, liberty, and humanity will ultimately prevail.

Once you learn to read, you will forever be free.

One you learn to READ, you will be forever free

It remains now to be seen whether we have the needed courage to have that cause entirely removed from the Republic.

Once you learn to read, you'll be forever free. Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.

The shallow consider liberty a release from all law, from every constraint. The wise man sees in it, on the contrary, the potent Law of Laws.