freedom Quotes

It gives me great pleasure indeed to see the stubbornness of an incorrigible nonconformist warmly acclaimed.

I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law.

If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost.

Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because men are equally free, they claim to be absolutely equal.

Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms.

Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved.

He who can be, and therefore is, another's, and he who participates in reason enough to apprehend, but not to have, is a slave by nature.

Where there is a free government, and the people make their own laws by their representatives, I see no injustice in their obliging one another to take their own paper money.

The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.

Rebellion against tyrants is obedience to God.