Robert M. La Follette Quotes

As long as I have any choice in the matter, I shall live only in a country where civil liberty, tolerance and equality of all citizens before the law prevail.

I insist that people - wherever they live - have their rights and they must be able to fight for them.

Freedom and Justice are twin sisters.

You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man's freedom.

I have an unyielding belief that all people yearn for certain things: the ability to speak your mind and have a say in how you are governed, confidence in the rule of law and the equal administration of law; government that is transparent and doesn’t steal from the people; the freedom to live as you choose. These are not just American ideas; they are Human Rights.

I fundamentally believe in freedom and human rights.

We need to start standing up for freedom and liberty.

Let America be America, where equality is in the air we breathe.

Liberty a word without which all other words are vain.

They who most loudly clamour for liberty do not most liberally grant it.

For all the injustices in our past and our present, we have to believe that in the free exchange of ideas, justice will prevail over injustice, tolerance over intolerance and progress over reaction.

It's liberty or it's death. It's freedom for everybody or freedom for nobody.

A society that aims for equality before liberty will end up with neither equality nor liberty. And a society that aims first for liberty will not end up with equality, but it will end up with a closer approach to equality than any other kind of system that has ever been developed.

When we allow freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city...

Equality, because without it there can be no liberty.

Throughout the ages advanced souls have yearned for a society in which liberty and justice prevail. Men have sought for it, fought for it, have died for it. Ancient freemen prized it; slaves longed for it; the Magna Charta demanded it; the Constitution of the United States declared it.

I fight, and have fought, for political freedom, for justice and for fairness and freedom of speech.

Liberty is the most precious gift we offer our citizens.

The air of England has long been too pure for a slave, and every man is free who breathes it.

I stand for simple justice, equal opportunity and human rights. The indispensable elements in a democratic society - and well worth fighting for.

And what is liberty, whose very name makes the heart beat faster and shakes the world? Is it not the union of all liberties - liberty of conscience, of education, of association, of the press, of travel, or labor, or trade?

Freedoms, like privileges, prevail or are imperiled together You cannot harm or strive to achieve one without harming or furthering all.

There have been in this century only one great man and one great thing: Napoleon and liberty. For want of the great man, let us have the great thing.

I wanted to get far away from those who believed in cruelty, so then I went to France, a land of true freedom, democracy, equality and fraternity.