Edmund Burke Quotes

The common Notions of Liberty are not from School Divines, but from Nature.

Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add 'within the limits of the law' because law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual.

A man is born free.

All men are by nature born equally free and independent.

Liberty doesn't work as well in practice as it does in speeches.

The liberty of the individual is no gift of civilization. It was greatest before there was any civilization.

Liberty is an individual, not a collective, right.

To wish to stop democracy [in America] would be to struggle against God himself

Freedom is such a gift.

No man has received from nature the right to command his fellow human beings.

No man has any natural authority over his fellow men.

Senegal needs to free itself, to rediscover its democracy.

This country was founded upon the principle that we are all endowed with certain inalienable rights to Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness - those rights are what make America great, and they belong to each and every one of us.

As precious as life itself is our heritage of individual freedom, for man's free agency is a God-given gift.

I'm a human being I'm not a piece of property. I am not a consignment of goods.

If men were born free, they would, so long as they remained free, form no conception of good and evil.

The natural liberty of man is to be free from any superior power on Earth, and not to be under the will or legislative authority of man, but only to have the law of nature for his rule.

I have a natural right to do whatever I want with my body... as long as it doesn't affect anybody else or any other property.

What world is there for us where our essential nature - and its right to live free - is one and the same?

Rights come from God, not from government.

The assertion that 'all men are created equal' was of no practical use in effecting our separation from Great Britain and it was placed in the Declaration not for that, but for future use.

Freedom is not negotiable.

Today, we stand as a united country and are much closer to the ideals set forth in our Constitution that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

Freedom is the right to one's dignity as a man.

Freedom is never dear at any price. It is the breath of life. What would a man not pay for living?