Quotes about Liberty

Freedom of choice is more to be treasured than any possession earth can give.

No man is free until he s a master of himself!!

Human rights are being violated on every continent. More people are oppressed than free.

She is free not by disobeying the rules but by obeying them.

America is the only nation in the world based on an idea - freedom and self-government - so if we don't understand that idea and what sacrifices were made to win that freedom and keep it for over two centuries, how can we possibly continue to keep it?

To help the poor to a capacity for action and liberty is something essential for one's own health as well as theirs: there is a needful gift they have to offer which cannot be offered so long as they are confined by poverty.

Deep in our hearts everyone walks free.

Religious liberty might be supposed to mean that everybody is free to discuss religion. In practice it means that hardly anybody is allowed to mention it.

The United States of America should have a foundation free from the influence of clergy.

In France, religion had been considered the enemy of liberty, but in America, as George Washington expressed it, religion and morality were the 'twin pillars of freedom.'

Religion and liberty are inseparable. Religion is voluntary, and cannot and ought not to be forced.

In our country we ask no toleration for religion and its free exercise, but we claim it as an inalienable right.