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Men fight for freedom, then they begin to accumulate laws to take it away from themselves.
Men fight for freedom, then they begin to accumulate laws to take it away from themselves.
People demand freedom only when they have no power.
People demand freedom only when they have no power.
We are not free, it was not intended we should be. A book of rules is placed in our cradle, read more
We are not free, it was not intended we should be. A book of rules is placed in our cradle, and we never get rid of it until we reach our graves. Then we are free, and only then.
A man who has nothing for which he willing to fight; nothing he cares about more than his own personal read more
A man who has nothing for which he willing to fight; nothing he cares about more than his own personal safety; is a miserable creature who has no chance of being free, unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.
To do good whenever one can, to love liberty above all else, never to deny the truth, even though it read more
To do good whenever one can, to love liberty above all else, never to deny the truth, even though it be before the throne.
Freedom is the only law which genius knows.
Freedom is the only law which genius knows.
Whose service is perfect freedom.
Whose service is perfect freedom.
A hungry man is not a free man.
A hungry man is not a free man.
For Freedom's battle once begun,
Bequeath'd by bleeding sire to son,
Though baffled oft is ever won.
For Freedom's battle once begun,
Bequeath'd by bleeding sire to son,
Though baffled oft is ever won.