Freedom Rights Quotes

A house divided against itself cannot stand. I believe this government cannot endure half slave and half free.

All men are born free.

We made freedom a birthright.

A people inspired by democracy, human rights and economic opportunity will turn their back decisively against extremism.

Free speech, free press, free religion, the right of free assembly, yes, the right of petition—well, they are still radical ideas.

The state is there to respect the freedom of each citizen to believe in what he or she wants to believe in.

I leave you, hoping that the lamp of liberty will burn in your bosoms until there shall no longer be a doubt that all men are created free and equal.--

Once a man has tasted freedom he will never be content to be a slave. That is why I believe that this frightfulness we see everywhere today is only temporary. Tomorrow will be better for as long as America keeps alive the ideals of freedom and a better life. All men will want to be free and share our way of life. There must be so much that I should have said, but haven't. What I will say now is just what most of us are probably thinking every day. “I thank God and America for the right to live and raise my family under the flag of tolerance, democracy and freedom. “

Freedom is not enough.

No man is entitled to the blessings of freedom unless he be vigilant in its preservation.

I'm as keen as the next person to preserve the right to free speech.

Every man is born with a double right. First, a right of freedom to his person, …. Secondly, a right before any other man, to inherit, with his brethren, his father's goods.

If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it; and if I could do it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would do that. I have here stated my purpose according to my official duty, and I intend no modification of my oft-expressed personal wish that all men, everywhere, could be free.

When we speak of peace, we should not mean just the absence of war. True peace rests on the pillars of individual freedom, human rights, national self-determination, and respect for the rule of law.

Liberty is an individual, not a collective, right.

No one should take away people's rights. But with respect to 'the right to arm ourselves,' we have lost sight of our own history.

Abolitionists believe that, as all men are born free, so all who are now held as slaves in this country were born free, and that they are slaves now is the sin, not of those who introduced the race into this country, but of those, and those alone, who now hold them and have held them in slavery from their birth.

What is life without liberty; and what is liberty without equality of rights?

Do the people of this land…desire to preserve those [liberties] protected by the First Amendment… If so, let them withstand all beginnings of encroachment. For the saddest epitaph which can be carved in memory of a vanquished liberty is that it was lost because its possessors failed to stretch for a saving hand while yet there was time.

This is not a question of expediency, but of right. In antebellum days the proposition was not, “Are the blacks good enough to be free?” but, “Have they the right?” So today the question is not, “Will outrages result from freeing humanity?” but, “Has it the right to life, the means of life, the opportunities of happiness?”

Freedom of speech is the great bulwark of liberty; they prosper and die together.

If there is no absolute right to freedom of speech, why must there be an absolute right to the freedom to bear arms.

Liberty and good government do not exclude each other.

Personal liberty is the paramount essential to human dignity and human happiness.

My human rights activism has been widely met with encouragement and support. Ahangarani should earn plaudits, not only for her cinematic achievements, but also for her humanitarian deeds and her commitment to increased rights and freedoms for all.