freedom Quotes

We must have constantly present in our minds the difference between independence and liberty. Liberty is a right of doing whatever the laws permit, and if a citizen could do what they forbid he would no longer be possessed of liberty.

When the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person, or in the same body of magistrates, there can be no liberty; because apprehensions may arise, lest the same monarch or senate should enact tyrannical laws, to execute them in a tyrannical manner.

A nation may lose its liberties in a day and not miss them in a century.

Countries are well cultivated, not as they are fertile, but as they are free.

There is no crueler tyranny than that which is perpetuated under the shield of law and in the name of justice.

Liberty is the right to do what the law permits.

Liberty is the right of doing whatever the laws permit.

It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to lose liberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man's self.

If there is no God, everything is permitted.

Man, so long as he remains free, has no more constant and agonizing anxiety than find as quickly as possible someone to worship.