Quotes about Freedom

Our American values are not luxuries but necessities, not the salt in our bread, but the bread itself. Our common vision of a free and just society is our greatest source of cohesion at home and strength abroad, greater than the bounty of our material blessings.

America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense… human rights invented America.

When people are intimidated about having their own opinions, oppression is at hand.

A man has a property in his opinions and the free communication of them.

Government's first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives.

I do protect human rights, and I hope I shall always be looked up as a champion of human rights.

Protecting the rights of even the least individual among us is basically the only excuse the government has for even existing.

Who dares not speak his free thought is a slave.

Isn't it delightful to forget how old we are?

No one is truly free, they are a slave to wealth, fortune, the law, or other people restraining them from acting according to their will.

A free man? - There is no such thing! All men are slaves; some, slaves to money; some, of chance; others are forced, either by mass opinion, or threatening law, to act against their nature.

A woman should be able to kiss a man beautifully and romantically without any desire to be either his wife or his mistress.