Freedom Quote by Abraham Lincoln

It is seldom, that liberty of any kind is lost all at once. Slavery has so frightful an aspect to men accustomed to freedom,…

— David Hume

Mankind may amuse themselves with theoretic systems of liberty... but we can only discern its true value by the practical and wretched effects of…

— Mercy Otis Warren

Too much liberty leads both men and nations to slavery.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

In every man's mind the good seeds of liberty are planted, and he who brings his fellow down so low, as to make him…

— Henry Highland Garnet

Slavery is perhaps the greatest affront to the fundamental principle of individual liberty.

— Ed Davey

God knows I detest slavery but it is an existing evil, and we must endure it and give it such protection as is guaranteed…

— Millard Fillmore

I prefer liberty with danger than peace with slavery.

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“The United States has never done away with slavery; we just stopped calling it such. These days, we call it free-market capitalism.”

— Michel Templet

Whenever a free man is in chains we are threatened also. Whoever is fighting for liberty is defending America.

— William Allen White

We rail at trade, but the historian of the world will see that it was the principle of liberty; that it settled America, and…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Freedom is best, I tell thee true, of all things to be won. Then never live within the Bond of Slavery.

— William Wallace

My paramount objective in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not to either save or destroy Slavery.

— Abraham Lincoln