7,738 Quotes About Freedom

Which crime has the female sex committed to be sentenced to the harsh necessity which consists of being locked up all life either as a prisoner or a slave? I call the nuns prisoners and the married women slaves.

To bind one free man with love is better than to release a thousand slaves.

A slave believes that the law should define the scope of liberty. A free person believes that liberty should define the scope of the law.

The man who is not permitted to own is owned.

They support freedom for themselves and slavery for everyone else, and they use the freedom of the market to disguise this fact. Economic coercion is just a different form of force, which they couple with the fraud of calling it freedom. I was like them, but I will never be like them again.

Educate your children, educate yourself, in the love for the freedom of others, for only in this way will your own freedom not be a gratuitous gift from fate. You will be aware of its worth and will have the courage to defend it.

Slaves do not have the bravery of free men.

Human nature is universally imbued with a desire for liberty, and a hatred for servitude.

And oft the blessed time foretellsWhen all men shall be free;And musical, as silver bells,Their falling chains shall be.