Freedom Quotes

“The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.”

“Where there is no law there is no freedom.”

“Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master. Experience has taught us that it is much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves than it is to dislodge them after they have got possession, and when the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.”

“A slave is he who cannot speak his thoughts.”

“I would rather die on my feet than live on my knees.”

“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.”

“Anarchy is the sure consequence of tyranny; for no power that is not limited by laws can ever be protected by them.”

“Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.”

“Whenever legislators endeavor to take away and destroy the property of the people, or to reduce them to slavery under arbitrary power, they put themselves into a state of war with the people, who are thereupon absolved from any further obedience.”

“The end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom. For in all the states of created beings capable of law, where there is no law, there is no freedom.”

“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.”

“We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.”