Quotes about Freedom
I believe that every individual is naturally entitled to do as he pleases with himself and the fruits of his labor, so far as it in no way interferes with any other men's rights.
- Abraham Lincoln
. . . the man is free, we say, who exists for his own sake and not for another's.
- Aristotle
Capitalism is our only moral system. All other systems take advantage of man's rights and liberties.
- Ayn Rand
As precious as life itself is our heritage of individual freedom, for man's free agency is a God-given gift.
- David O. McKay
What's your road, man? - holyboy road, madman road, rainbow road, guppy road, any road. It's an anywhere road for anybody anyhow. Where body how?
- Jack Kerouac
Golden fetters are no less galling to a self-respecting man that iron ones; the sting lies in the fetters, not in the metal.
- Mahatma Gandhi
We fight not to enslave, but to set a country free, and to make room upon the earth for honest men to live in.
- Thomas Paine
I intend no modification of my oft-expressed wish that all men everywhere could be free.
- Abraham Lincoln
Man everywhere has an unconquerable desire to be the master of his own destiny.
- Calvin Coolidge
The good man, though a slave, is free; the wicked, though he reigns, is a slave, and not the slave of a single man, but- what is worse - the slave of as many masters as he has vices.
- St. Augustine
There are no galley-slaves in the royal vessel of divine love - every man works his oar voluntarily!
- Francis de Sales
But man is freer than all the animals, on account of his free-will, with which he is endowed above all other animals.
- St. Thomas Aquinas