Freedom Quote by David McCullough

“Government is nothing more than the combined force of society or the united power of the multitude for the peace, order, safety, good, and…

— David McCullough

“And liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people who have a right from the frame of their nature to knowledge...”

— John Adams

You cannot have Liberty in this world without what you call Moral Virtue, and you cannot have Moral Virtue without the slavery of that…

— William Blake

No nation ancient or modern ever lost the liberty of freely speaking, writing, or publishing their sentiments, but forthwith lost their liberty in general…

— John Peter Zenger

And liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people who have a right from the frame of their nature to knowledge,…

— John Adams

“There is no slavery but ignorance. Liberty is the child of intelligence.”

— Robert G. Ingersoll

I believe that any man who takes the liberty of another into his keeping is bound to become a tyrant, and that any man…

— H. L. Mencken

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

“I know that [civilized men] do nothing but boast incessantly of the peace and repose they enjoy in their chains… But when I see…

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“Inner liberty depends upon being exempt from domination of things as well as from domination of people. There are many who have acquired a…

— Abraham Joshua Heschel

We must teach our children that the preservation of liberty, and of an order of society conducive to human dignity, requires that a free…

— Alan Keyes

Liberty cannot be preserved, if the manners of the people are corrupted.

— Algernon Sidney