Quotes about Liberty
I believe the declaration that 'all men are created equal' is the great fundamental principle upon which our free institutions rest.
- Abraham Lincoln
Against us are all timid men who prefer the calm of despotism to the boisterous sea of liberty We are likely to preserve the liberty we have obtained only by unremitting labors and perils.
- Thomas Jefferson
We must recognize the fundamental rights of man. There can be no true national life in our democracy unless we give unqualified recognition to freedom of religious worship and freedom of education.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
I think the authors of that notable instrument [the Declaration of Independence] intended to include all men.
- Abraham Lincoln
Every man has a right to be equal with every other man.
- Abraham Lincoln
I never knew a man who wished to be himself a slave. Consider if you know any good thing, that no man desires for himself.
- Abraham Lincoln
When man has nothing but his will to assert--even his good-will--it is always bullying. Bolshevism is one sort of bullying, capitalism another: and liberty is a change of chains.
- DH Lawrence
I believe that freedom is a gift from an Almighty to every man, woman, and child; that is a principle that was important to me during my presidency and I think it's an important principle.
- George W. Bush
Individual liberty is allowed to man only to a certain extent. He cannot forget that he is a social being and his individual liberty has to be curtailed at every step.
- Mahatma Gandhi
No government on earth can make men, who have realized freedom in their hearts, salute against their will.
- Mahatma Gandhi
God is not merely interestd in the freedom of brown men, yellow men, red men and black men.He is interested in the freedom of the whole human race.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
We want a state of things in which crime will not pay, a state of things which allows every man the largest liberty compatible with the liberty of every other man.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson