Without freedom, no one really has a name.
Acorda, Milton

The law of liberty tends to abolish the reign of race over race, of faith over faith, of class over class. It is not the realization of a political ideal: It is the discharge of a moral obligation.
Acton, Lord John Emerich Edward Dalberg

The freedom now desired by many is not freedom to do and dare but freedom from care and worry
Adams, James Truslow

There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.
Adams, President John Quincy

You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the struggle for independence.
Beard, Charles Austin

Only reason can convince us of those three fundamental truths without a recognition of which there can be no effective liberty: that what we believe is not necessarily true; that what we like is not necessarily good; and that all questions are open.
Bell, Arthur Clive Howard

Liberty is being free from the things we don't like in order to be slaves of the things we do like.
Benn, Ernest

Every law is an infraction of liberty.
Bentham, Jeremy

The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding.
Brandeis, Justice Louis D

It is disturbing to note that it is in the democracies, founded on the premise of the inviolability of free will, that the principles of the manipulation of the mind may come to be generally accepted . . . The eventual democratic response to crime may well be what could be represented as the most human, or humane, or compassionate approach of all: to regard man's mad division, which renders him both gloriously creative and bestially destructive, as a genuine disease, to treat his schizophrenia with drugs or shocks or Skinnerian conditioning. Juvenile delinquents destroy the State's peace; mature delinquents threaten to destroy the human race. The principle is the same for both: burn out the disease.
Burgess, Anthony

Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites; in proportion as their love of justice is above their rapacity; in proportion as their soundness and sobriety of understanding is above their vanity and presumption; in proportion as they are more disposed to listen to the counsels of the wise and good, in preference to the flattery of knaves
Burke, Edmund

Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist
Burke, Edmund

It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters.
Burke, Edmund

The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.
Burke, Edmund

Free societies and democratic societies are transforming societies.
Bush, President George W

Freedom is nothing else but a chance to be better.
Camus, Albert

Absolute justice is achieved by the suppression of all contradiction: therefore it destroys freedom.
Camus, Albert

Can our form of government, our system of justice, survive if one can be denied a freedom because he might abuse it?
Carter, Harlon

(Legum servi sumus ut liberi esse possimus) We are slaves of the laws in order that we may be able to be free
Cicero, Marcus Tullius

Liberty consists in the power of doing that which is permitted by law.
Cicero, Marcus Tullius

Liberty will not descend to a people; a people must raise themselves to liberty; it is a blessing that must be earned before it can be enjoyed.
Colton, Charles Caleb

Freedom has a thousand charms to show that slaves, however contented, cannot know.
Cowper, William

Freedom comes from human beings, rather than from laws and institutions.
Darrow, Clarence Seward

This will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave.
Davis, Elmer

An actual right is something that governments need merely to secure, not to implement
Dean, James