“Conscience is the most sacred of all property.”
James Madison
ConscienceReligious Freedom
Freedom Quotes
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Freedom Quotes
Read the best freedom quotes from Thomas Jefferson, John Stuart Mill, Swami Vivekananda, Shakespeare, the Bible and more, with timeless words on liberty and independence.
“Freedom of religion; freedom of the press, and freedom of person under the protection of the habeas corpus. These principles form the bright constellation which has gone before us.”
Thomas Jefferson
Civil LibertiesFree Press
“A wise and frugal government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement.”
Thomas Jefferson
Limited GovernmentOpportunity
“Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just: that his justice cannot sleep for ever.”
Thomas Jefferson
JusticeAbolition
“Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters.”
Benjamin Franklin
VirtueCharacter
“Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech.”
Benjamin Franklin
Free SpeechWarning
“Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.”
John Adams
ConstitutionMorality
“The preservation of the sacred fire of liberty is finally staked on the experiment entrusted to the hands of the American people.”
George Washington
ResponsibilityDemocracy
“The cause of America is in a great measure the cause of all mankind.”
Thomas Paine
RevolutionHumanity
“An army of principles can penetrate where an army of soldiers cannot.”
Thomas Paine
IdeasPower
“The means of defence against foreign danger have been always the instruments of tyranny at home.”
James Madison
WarningTyranny
“Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God!”
Patrick Henry
SacrificeRevolution
“Society cannot exist, unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere; and the less of it there is within, the more there must be without.”
Edmund Burke
Self ControlSociety
“They are slaves who fear to speak for the fallen and the weak.”
James Russell Lowell
Speaking UpCourage
“Revolutions are not made; they come.”
Wendell Phillips
RevolutionHistory
“Give to every other human being every right that you claim for yourself.”
Robert G. Ingersoll
Human RightsGolden Rule
“He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.”
John Stuart Mill
Open MindDebate
“Countries are well cultivated, not as they are fertile, but as they are free.”
Montesquieu
ProsperityNation
“It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.”
Voltaire
TruthCourage
“It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once.”
David Hume
Losing FreedomVigilance
“It is better that ten guilty persons escape, than that one innocent suffer.”
William Blackstone
JusticeLaw
“Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself.”
John Milton
CensorshipBooks
“For Freedom's battle once begun, bequeath'd by bleeding sire to son, though baffled oft is ever won.”
Lord Byron
PerseveranceGenerations
“Freedom is a new religion, the religion of our age.”
Heinrich Heine
Modern TimesLiberty
“We do not feel called upon to be angry with our neighbour for doing what he likes.”
Pericles
ToleranceDemocracy