Best Freedom Liberty Quotes

To know how to free oneself is nothing; the arduous thing is to know what to do with one’s freedom.

Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.

Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.

That government is best which governs least.

The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.

The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.

No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck.

Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally destructive.

Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.

To disarm the people… was the best and most effectual way to enslave them.

Democracy, the practice of self-government, is a covenant among free men to respect the rights and liberties of their fellows.

Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word, equality. But notice the difference: while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude.

The best we can hope for concerning the people at large is that they be properly armed.

There was no one left to speak for me.

Philadelphia, the foundation of freedom, liberty and democracy, I still believe in the idea of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

The history of liberty is a history of resistance.

We must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt.

Freedom is the right to question and change the established way of doing things.

Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.

A well regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, trained in arms, is the best most natural defense of a free country.

Whenever legislators endeavor to take away and destroy the property of the people, or to reduce them to slavery under arbitrary power, they put themselves into a state of war with the people, who are thereupon absolved from any further obedience.

The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty.

Wherever Law ends, Tyranny begins.

Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.

America… goes not abroad, in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to the freedom and independence of all.

Of all the enemies to public liberty war is, perhaps, the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other. War is the parent of armies; from these proceed debts and taxes; and armies, debts, and taxes are the known instruments for bringing the many under the domination of the few… No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.

All mankind… being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or possessions.

When you subsidize poverty and failure, you get more of both.

In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself.

To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea.

..every Man has a Property in his own Person. This no Body has any Right to but himself. The Labour of his Body, and the Work of his Hands, we may say, are properly his. …. The great and chief end therefore, of Mens uniting into Commonwealths, and putting themselves under Government, is the Preservation of their Property.

Disarm the people- that is the best and most effective way to enslave them.

The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.

Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner.

A well-regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.