Freedom Quotes

If you want to be free, there is but one way; it is to guarantee an equally full measure of liberty to all your neighbors. There is no other.

Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.

Only the educated are free.

While the State exists, there can be no freedom. When there is freedom there will be no State.

Patterning your life around other's opinions is nothing more than slavery.

To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.

Because you are in control of your life. Don't ever forget that. You are what you are because of the conscious and subconscious choices you have made.

Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.

The First Amendment is often inconvenient. But that is besides the point. Inconvenience does not absolve the government of its obligation to tolerate speech.

In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved.

A right delayed is a right denied.

People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought, which they avoid.

The history of free men is never really written by chance but by choice -- their choice.

A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights.

A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights.

The very idea of freedom presupposes some objective moral law which overarches rulers and ruled alike. Subjectivism about values is eternally incompatible with democracy. We and our rulers are of one kind only so long as we are subject to one law. But if there is no Law of Nature, the ethos of any society is the creation of its rulers, educators and conditioners; and every creator stands above and outside his own creation.

A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.

A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.

History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.

If you want total security, go to prison. There you're fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking... is freedom.