Freedom Quotes — page 78

A free people [claim] their rights, as derived from the laws of nature, and not as the gift of their chief magistrate.

We are indebted for all our miseries to our distrust of that guide, which Providence thought sufficient for our condition, our own natural reason, which rejecting both in human and Divine things, we have given our necks to the yoke of …

You cannot write the bloody laws of slavery on those restless billows. The ocean, if not the land, is free.

Mr. MADISON considered the popular election of one branch of the National Legislature as essential to every plan of free Government.

But a Constitution of Government once changed from Freedom, can never be restored. Liberty, once lost, is lost forever.

The Autocrat of all the Russias will resign his crown, and proclaim his subjects free republicans sooner than will our American masters voluntarily give up their slaves.

In conformity with the recommendation of Congress, a proposition was early made to the British Government to abolish the mixed courts created under the treaty of April 7, 1862, for the suppression of the slave trade. The subject is still …

The greatest of all communists, if communist he be, Proudhon, has also seen and exposed this tendency of socialism to slavery. He is a thorough-going enemy of modern free society; call property a thief; and would, he says, establish …

They are condemned by the traditions, and by the moral obligations, of the Court of Rome, whose system is one of charity and of liberty, and which knows no public consideration which is superior to the salvation of souls.

History has informed us that bodies of men, as well as individuals, are susceptible of the spirit of tyranny.

'If you say, that natural religion is a sufficient guide without the foreign aid of revelation, on what principle should political laws become necessary? Is not the same reason available in theology and in politics?

The lonely billows of the Atlantic, where every breeze speaks of courage and liberty.

in being punishable himself for all violence committed against others, the slave is no less evidently regarded by the law as a member of the society, not as a part of the irrational creation; as a moral person, not as a mere article of …

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.

from the force of circumstances, the basest principles of our nature, were either made to lie dormant, or to become the active agents in the advancement of the noblest cause — that of establishing and maintaining civil and religious …

As the United States is the freest of all nations, so, too, its people sympathize with all people struggling for liberty and self-government; but while so sympathizing it is due to our honor that we should abstain from enforcing our views …

Free trade or political economy is the science of free society, and socialism is the science of slavery.

All these principles of despotism are incompatible with the Catholic ideas

that truth is great and will prevail if left to herself; that she is the proper and sufficient antagonist to error, and has nothing to fear from the conflict unless by human interposition disarmed of her natural weapons, free argument and …

If pretended revelations have caused wars where they were opposed, and slavery where they were received, the pretended wise inventions of politicians have done the same. But the slavery has been much heavier, the wars far more bloody, and …

Where there is seeming contentment with slavery, there is certain treachery to freedom.

I SHALL here, perhaps, be reminded of a current observation, "that where annual elections end, tyranny begins.

The encroachments upon liberty in the reigns of the first James and the first Charles, by turning the general attention of learned men to government, are said to have produced the greatest number of consummate statesmen which has ever been …

Let every American, every lover of liberty, every well-wisher to his posterity swear by the blood of the Revolution never to violate in the least particular the laws of the country, and never to tolerate their violation by others.