Tertullian Quotes

The state can't give you freedom, and the state can't take it away. You're born with it, like your eyes, like your ears. Freedom is something you assume, then you wait for someone to try to take it away. The degree to which you resist is the degree to which you are free.

I am a believer in liberty. That is my religion — to give to every other human being every right that I claim for myself, and I grant to every other human being, not the right — because it is his right — but instead of granting I declare that it is his right, to attack every doctrine that I maintain, to answer every argument that I may urge — in other words, he must have absolute freedom of speech.

People have the right to say whatever they want.

I'm a big believer in freedom and people's rights to express themselves and not have government interfere in that type of thing.

A man is either free or he is not. There cannot be any apprenticeship for freedom.

The Constitution gives every American the inalienable right to make a damn fool of himself.

It is not what France gave you but what it did not take from you that was important.

I feel like freedom of speech is one of the great things in this country and the freedom to do what you feel is right.

There is only one kind of freedom and that's individual liberty. Our lives come from our creator and our liberty comes from our creator. It has nothing to do with government granting it.

Anybody, anywhere in the world, all they want is to be free, to choose what they want to do without having someone tell them how to do it.

A right is not what someone gives you; it's what no one can take from you.

I'm a big advocate of freedom: freedom of speech, freedom of expression, freedom of thought.

Freedom of expression is the matrix, the indispensable condition of nearly every other form of freedom.

People have rights and government must be kept from trampling on them.

I have a right to nothing which another has a right to take away

Security is no replacement for liberty.

Every human being deserves a say in the decisions that affect their lives; no one should be subject to the will of another.

Freedom is indivisible. As soon as one starts to restrict it, one enters upon a decline on which it is difficult to stop.

We have the right to be idiots.

All men are born free and equal, and have certain natural, essential, and unalienable rights; among which may be reckoned the right of enjoying and defending their lives and liberties; that of acquiring, possessing, and protecting property; in fine, that of seeking and obtaining their safety and happiness.

If a man's free will to adopt ideas and values is inalienable, his freedom of action - his freedom to put these ideas into effect in the world - is not in such a fortunate condition.

I have the freedom to say what I want to say.

You never think of your freedom until it's taken away from you, and once it's taken... So, it means everything to me. You couldn't put a price tag on it.

As a human being, I do feel like it's my right to be able to stand up for and speak on whatever I want.

You either respect people's liberties, or you don't.