Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quote Share via Email Print this Page [1-20] of 1320 Freedom quotesFreedom QuotesFreedom Next 20 quotes A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.~ Edward Abbey Freedom degenerates unless it has to struggle in its own defence.~ Lord Acton At all times sincere friends of freedom have been rare, and its triumphs have been due to minorities....~ Lord Acton By liberty I mean the assurance that every man shall be protected in doing what he believes is his duty against the influence of authority and majorities, custom and opinion.~ Lord Acton The most certain test by which we judge whether a country is really free is the amount of security enjoyed by minorities.~ Lord Acton Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is the highest political end.~ Lord Acton Liberty is the prevention of control by others. This requires self-control and, therefore, religious and spiritual influences; education, knowledge, well-being.~ Lord Acton It is bad to be oppressed by a minority, but it is worse to be oppressed by a majority.~ Lord Acton I would rather starve and rot and keep the privilege of speaking the truth as I see it, than of holding all the offices that capital has to give from the presidency down.~ Henry Brooks Adams The freedom now desired by many is not freedom to do and dare but freedom from care and worry.~ James Truslow Adams Nip the shoots of arbitrary power in the bud, is the only maxim which can ever preserve the liberties of any people.~ John Adams The poor people, it is true, have been much less successful than the great. They have seldom found either leisure or opportunity to form a union and exert their strength; ignorant as they were of arts and letters, they have seldom been able to frame and support a regular opposition. This, however, has been known by the great to be the temper of mankind; and they have accordingly labored, in all ages, to wrest from the populace, as they are contemptuously called, the knowledge of their rights and wrongs, and the power to assert the former or redress the latter. I say RIGHTS, for such they have, undoubtedly, antecedent to all earthly government, Rights, that cannot be repealed or restrained by human laws, Rights, derived from the great Legislator of the universe.~ John Adams The jaws of power are always open to devour, and her arm is always stretched out, if possible, to destroy the freedom of thinking, speaking, and writing.~ John Adams The Revolution was effected before the War commenced. The Revolution was in the minds and hearts of the people; a change in their religious sentiments of their duties and obligations ... This radical change in the principles, opinions, sentiments, and affections of the people, was the real American Revolution.~ John Adams Be not intimidated... nor suffer yourselves to be wheedled out of your liberties by any pretense of politeness, delicacy, or decency. These, as they are often used, are but three different names for hypocrisy, chicanery and cowardice.~ John Adams The moment the idea is admitted into society that property is not as sacred as the law of God, and that there is not a force of law and public justice to protect it, anarchy and tyranny commence.~ John Adams Children should be educated and instructed in the principles of freedom.~ John Adams [You have Rights] antecedent to all earthly governments: Rights, that cannot be repealed or restrained by human laws; Rights, derived from the Great Legislator of the universe.~ John Adams When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking, or thinking, I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists; but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more.~ John Adams Liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people, who have... a right, an indisputable, unalienable, indefeasible, divine right to that most dreaded and envied kind of knowledge, I mean the characters and conduct of their rulers.~ John Adams Next 20 quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print