freedom Quotes

The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive.

I own that I am not a friend to a very energetic government. It is always oppressive.

Taste cannot be controlled by law.

To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.

Mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.

I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.

Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.

If there is one principle more deeply rooted in the mind of every American, it is that we should have nothing to do with conquest.

None but an armed nation can dispense with a standing army. To keep ours armed and disciplined is therefore at all times important.

We did not raise armies for glory or for conquest.