Byron Katie Quotes

We made freedom a birthright.

Freedom is a birthright, not a grant from government.

A right is not what someone gives you; it's what no one can take from you.

All men are born free.

We hold these truths to be self evident: 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.

The individual is greater than the state.

Liberty is an individual, not a collective, right.

No man can divest himself … of his liberty

I have a right to nothing which another has a right to take away

I was born free.

Liberty is the most important thing.

Freedom is the alone unoriginated birthright of man, and belongs to him by force of his humanity.

Liberty is one of the most precious gifts which heaven has bestowed on man; with it we cannot compare the treasures which the earth contains or the sea conceals; for liberty, as for honor, we can and ought to risk our lives; and, on for the other hand, captivity is the greatest evil that can befall man.

I have one abiding religion-human liberty.

Man holds these rights [life, liberty and property], not from the Collective nor for the Collective, but against the Collective - as a barrier which the Collective cannot cross... these rights are man's protection against all other men.

The rights of man as the foundation of just Government had been long understood but the superstructures projected had been sadly defective

The principles on which we engaged, of which the charter of our independence is the record, were sanctioned by the laws of our being, and we but obeyed them in pursuing undeviatingly the course they called for. It issued finally in that inestimable state of freedom which alone can ensure to man the enjoyment of his equal rights.

I think everybody deserves freedom. Freedom is such an abstract word, but it's all we need.

Self government is our right, a thing born to us at birth a thing no more to be doled out to us by another people then the right to life itself then the right to feel the sun or smell the flowers or to love our kind.

Liberty a word without which all other words are vain.

Freedom must be continually guarded as something more priceless than life itself.

[L]iberty must at all hazards be supported. We have a right to it, derived from our Maker. But if we had not, our fathers have earned and bought it for us, at the expense of their ease, their estates, their pleasure, and their blood.

I would contend that we place no other value above the right to be free. We will die for our freedom. In fact, we believe freedom is sufficiently important that we will even die so that others around the globe might be free.

Freedom is the only thing we must demand in life, for all other good things stem from it

Words Like Freedom There are words like Freedom Sweet and wonderful to say. On my heartstrings freedom sings All day everyday. There are words like Liberty That almost make me cry. If you had known what I know You would know why.