Freedom Quote by Thomas Stephen Szasz

Men love liberty because it protects them from control and humiliation by others, thus affording them the possibility of dignity; they loathe liberty because…

— Thomas Szasz

The fact is that liberty, in any true sense, is a concept that lies quite beyond the reach of the inferior man's mind. And…

— H. L. Mencken

Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.

— George Bernard Shaw

The fact is that the average man's love of liberty is nine-tenths imaginary, exactly like his love of sense, justice and truth. Liberty is…

— H. L. Mencken

Man loves liberty, even if he does not know that he loves it. He is driven by it and flees from where it does…

— Jose Marti

Liberty is often a heavy burden on a man. It involves the necessity for perpetual choice which is the kind of labor men have…

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr

Liberty is of small value to the lower third of humanity. They greatly prefer security, which means protection by some class above them. They…

— H. L. Mencken

"What is liberty without...virtue? It is...madness, without restraint. Men are qualified for liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon…

— Edmund Burke

The only liberty an inferior man really cherishes is the liberty to quit work, stretch out in the sun, and scratch himself.

— H. L. Mencken

Liberty means that a man is recognized as free and treated as free by those who surround him.

— Mikhail Bakunin

liberty is the one thing no man can have unless he grants it to others.

— Ruth Benedict

The man who loves his country prefers its liberty to all other considerations, well knowing that without liberty life is a misery

— Andrew Hamilton