Quotes about Liberty
Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.
- Frederick Douglass
Coersion, after all, merely captures man. Freedom captivates him.
- Ronald Reagan
Socialism is an attack on the right to breathe freely. No socialist system can be established without a political police.
- Winston Churchill
I am interested in politics only in order to secure and protect freedom.
- Ayn Rand
That liberty [is pure] which is to go to all, and not to the few or the rich alone. (to Horatio Gates, 1798)
- Thomas Jefferson
Mankind's greatest gift... is that we have free choice.
- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
True liberty is not the power to live as we please, but to live as we ought.
- AW Pink
What a perversion of the normal order of things! ... to make power the primary and central object of the social system, and Liberty but its satellite.
- James Madison
The way to secure liberty is to place it in the people's hands, that is, to give them the power at all times to defend it in the legislature and in the courts of justice.
- John Adams
A single legislature, on account of the superabundance of its power, and the uncontrolled rabidity of its execution, becomes as dangerous to the principles of liberty as that of a despotic monarch.
- Thomas Paine
Let us remember that we can do these things not just because of wealth or power, but because of who we are: one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.
- Barack Obama
We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.
- William Faulkner