2,103 Quotes About Liberty

I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own.

Freedom is not something that anybody can be given. Freedom is something people take, and people are as free as they want to be

I like contradictions. We have never attained the infinite variety and contradictions that exist in nature. Tomorrow I shall contradict myself. That is the one way I have of asserting my liberty, the real liberty one does not find as a member of society.

The end may justify the means as long as there is something that justifies the end.

I am an American; free born and free bred, where I acknowledge no man as my superior, except for his own worth, or as my inferior, except for his own demerit.

This is my doctrine: Give every other human being every right you claim for yourself.

Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must, like men, undergo the fatigues of supporting it.

Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.

Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!