John Milton Quotes

All men are born free.

All men are by nature born equally free and independent.

All men are born equally free.

All men are born free and equal.

A man is born free.

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

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

We made freedom a birthright.

I have said that in their right to "life, liberty and pursuit of happiness," as proclaimed in that old Declaration, the inferior races are our equals.

At first man was enslaved by the gods, but he broke their chains… Then he was enslaved by the kings, but he broke their chains… He was enslaved by his birth, by his kin, by his race, but he broke their chains... He declared to all his brothers that man has rights that neither god or king nor other men can take away from him no matter what their number. For his is the right of man. And there is no right on earth above this right

I was born free.

Everyone is born free and equal.

Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness is part of our constitutional rights and it belongs to everybody.

Freedom is our birthright.

But America was founded on the principle that every person has God-given rights. That power belongs to the people. That government exists to protect our rights and serve our interests. That we shouldn't be trapped in the circumstances of our birth. That we should be free to go as far as our talents and work can take us.

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

The Declaration calls us to recognize the inherent equality of all people. And when it becomes unmistakably evident that a government is denying the governed life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, it's the right of people to establish a new government to secure these unalienable rights.

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.

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

Life is the ultimate right.

There is only one kind of freedom and that's individual liberty. Our lives come from our creator and our liberty comes from our creator. It has nothing to do with government granting it.

We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal.

What libertarians assert is simply that differences among normal adults do not imply different fundamental rights.

Liberty is not the unique right of Americans or even Westerners, but is mankind's right.

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.