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Every natural right not expressly given up, or, from the nature of a social compact, necessarily ceded, remains.
Samuel Adams1722–1803The Rights of the Colonists (1772)
- Liberty
We want freedom now, but we’re not going to get it saying “We Shall Overcome”. We’ve got to fight until we overcome.
Malcolm X1925–1965Speech in Cleveland, Ohio (April 3, 1964)
The whole principle is wrong; it’s like demanding that grown men live on skim milk because the baby can’t eat steak.
Robert A. Heinlein1907–1988On censorship, in The Man Who Sold the Moon (1950), p. 188
At times history and fate meet at a single time in a single place to shape a turning point in man’s unending search for freedom.
Lyndon B. Johnson1908–1973We Shall Overcome (1965)
- History
Liberty is the condition of progress. Without Liberty, there remains only barbarism. Without Liberty, there can be no civilization.
Robert G. Ingersoll1833–1899The trial of Charles B. Reynolds for blasphemy (1887)
- Liberty
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.
James Madison1751–1836“Political Observations” (1795-04-20)
- Liberty
- War & Peace
I don’t believe in total freedom for the artist. Left on his own, free to do anything he likes, the artist ends up doing nothing at all.
Federico Fellini1920–1993I’m a Born Liar (2003), “Artistic Freedom”
- Art
At the present moment in world history nearly every nation must choose between alternative ways of life. The choice is too often not a free one.
Harry S. Truman1884–1972The Truman Doctrine (1947)
It is essential to this nation’s future that we remember that the freedom to worship who we want, and how we want, or not worship at all, is a core belief of our founding.
George W. Bushborn 1946Remarks at the SMU 100th Spring Commencement (May 2015)
- Religion
I simply claim that what ideas I have, I have a right to express; and that any man who denies that right to me is an intellectual thief and robber. That is all.
Robert G. Ingersoll1833–1899The Liberty of Man, Woman and Child (1877)
- Ideas
Your life will be good and secure when aliveness will mean more to you than security; love more than money; your freedom more than party line or public opinion.
Wilhelm Reich1897–1957Listen, Little Man! (1948)
- Love
- Money
I would not wish to live in a world where I could not express my honest opinions. Men who deny to others the right of speech are not fit to live with honest men.
Robert G. Ingersoll1833–1899The trial of Charles B. Reynolds for blasphemy (1887)
Liberty, according to my metaphysics, is an intellectual quality; an attribute that belongs not to fate nor chance. Neither possesses it, neither is capable of it.
John Adams1735–1826Letter to John Taylor (15 April 1814)
- Liberty
- Philosophy
Of all forms of slavery there is none that is so harmful and degrading as that form of slavery which tempts one human being to hate another by reason of his race or color.
Booker T. Washington1856–1915An Address on Abraham Lincoln before the Republican Club of New York City (12 February 1909)
- Race
- Slavery
It is harder to preserve than to obtain liberty.
John C. Calhoun1782–1850Speech in the Senate (January 1848)
- Liberty