freedom Quotes

I am for doing good to the poor, but I differ in opinion about the means. I think the best way of doing good to the poor is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it.

Without freedom of thought, there can be no such thing as wisdom - and no such thing as public liberty without freedom of speech.

The U. S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself.

God grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the nations of the earth, so that a philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say: 'This is my country.'

Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it.

If all printers were determined not to print anything till they were sure it would offend nobody, there would be very little printed.

There cannot be a stronger natural right than that of a man's making the best profit he can of the natural produce of his lands.

Where liberty is, there is my country.

They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

Marriage is good enough for the lower classes: they have facilities for desertion that are denied to us.