Quotes about Freedom
For it is, and must remain, the case that we must obey God rather than man.
— Martin Niemoller
A man who takes away another man's freedom is a prisoner of hatred, he is locked behind the bars of prejudice and narrow mindedness.
— Nelson Mandela
Let us renew our faith that as free men and women we still have the power to better our lives.
— Ronald Reagan
My faith in the proposition that each man should do precisely as he pleases with all which is exclusively his own lies at the foundation of the sense of justice there is in me.
— Abraham Lincoln
What I do say is, that no man is good enough to govern another man, without that other's consent. I say this is the leading principle - the sheet anchor of American republicanism.
— Abraham Lincoln
The most noble cause known to man is the liberation of the human mind and spirit.
— Maya Angelou
To be a man is to be a nonconformist.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
That government is best which governs not at all; and when men are prepared for it, that will be the kind of government which they will have.
— Henry David Thoreau
It [freedom] is a thing of the spirit. Men must be free to worship, to think, to hold opinions, to speak without fear. They must be free to challenge wrong and oppression with the surety of justice.
— Herbert Hoover
The laws of man may bind him in chains or may put him to death, but they never can make him wise, virtuous, or happy.
— John Quincy Adams
It is a maxim that no man was ever enslaved by influence while he was fit to be free.
— Samuel Johnson
All men are created equal.
— Thomas Jefferson