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I should have loved freedom, I believe, at all times, but in the time in which we live I am ready to worship it.
Alexis de Tocqueville1805–1859Democracy in America, Volume II (1840), Book Four, Chapter VII.
Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, in order to assure the survival and the success of liberty.
John F. Kennedy1917–1963John F. Kennedy’s Inaugural Address (1961)
- America
- Liberty
The Americans combine the notions of Christianity and of liberty so intimately in their minds, that it is impossible to make them conceive the one without the other.
Alexis de Tocqueville1805–1859Democracy in America, Volume I (1835), Chapter XVII.
A desire to resist oppression is implanted in the nature of man.
Tacitus55–120
My fellow citizens of the world: ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man.
John F. Kennedy1917–1963John F. Kennedy’s Inaugural Address (1961)
- America
‘Tis a common observation here that our cause is the cause of all mankind, and that we are fighting for their liberty in defending our own.
Benjamin Franklin1706–1790
- Liberty
Everyone is in favour of free speech. Hardly a day passes without its being extolled, but some people’s idea of it is that they are free to say what they like, but if anyone says anything back, that is an outrage.
Winston Churchill1874–1965“The Coalmining Situation”, Speech to the House of Commons (October 13, 1943)
It is not necessary to prohibit or encourage oddities of conduct which are not harmful.
Napoleon1769–1821Napoleon : In His Own Words (1916)
- Government
The Constitution is a delusion and a snare if the weakest and humblest man in the land cannot be defended in his right to speak and his right to think as much as the strongest in the land.
Clarence Darrow1857–1938Arguments in the Case of the Communist Labor Party (1920), p.17
You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man’s freedom. You can only be free if I am free.
Clarence Darrow1857–1938Arguments in the Case of the Communist Labor Party (1920), p. 39
- Liberty
The law will never make men free; it is men who have got to make the law free.
Henry David Thoreau1817–1862“Slavery in Massachusetts” (1854)
- Laws
It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.
Voltaire1694–1778Le dîner du comte de Boulainvilliers (1767): Troisième Entretien
There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences.
POP. J. O'Rourke1947–2022The Liberty Manifesto (1993)
- Responsibility
From a persuasion that equal liberty was originally the Portion, It is still the Birthright of all men.
Benjamin Franklin1706–1790Petition from the Pennsylvania Society (1790)
- Liberty
- Slavery
Today as always, men fall into two groups: slaves and free men. Whoever does not have two-thirds of his day for himself, is a slave, whatever he may be: a statesman, a businessman, an official, or a scholar.
Friedrich Nietzsche1844–1900Human, All Too Human (1878), Aphorism 283, tr. Marion Faber and Stephen Lehmann
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