Henry David Thoreau Quotes

We know what works. Freedom Works. We know what's right. Freedom is right.

A free people, free to believe as we wish, free to speak our minds, free to raise our children as we see fit, will, make no mistake about it, endure.

Law and freedom must be indivisible partners. For without law, there can be no freedom, only choas and disorder; and without freedom, law is but a cynical veneer for injustice and oppression.

If freedom is to flourish the philosophic foundations of a free society must be kept a living intellectual issue and its implementation a task which challenges the ingenuity and imagination of the liveliest minds.

Liberty is the most precious gift we offer our citizens.

Ultimately, I'm about liberty and I think you have to defend it.

Two things form the bedrock of any open society - freedom of expression and rule of law. If you don't have those things, you don't have a free country.

We must always embrace individual liberty and enforce the constitutional rights of all Americans-rich and poor, immigrant and native, black and white.

True freedom requires the rule of law and justice, and a judicial system in which the rights of some are not secured by the denial of rights to others.

I would like to be remembered as a person who wanted to be free... so other people would be also free.

I firmly believe in the rule of law as the foundation for all of our basic rights.

We've begun to get justice.

So long as you do not achieve social liberty, whatever freedom is provided by the law is of no avail to you.

The same liberty that protects me also protects members of the Mafia.

Liberty is the only thing you can't have unless you give it to others.

Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is the highest political end.

We live now in the freeist time in the freeist country.

All men must operate under one general law.

Democracy is a value in itself. It doesn't have to be defended [justified] any more than freedom has to be defended.

We all must follow the rule of law, not the rule of aldermen.

If our Constitution does not guarantee freedom for all, it is not a Constitution I can subscribe to. And now let me give the sentiment which has been, and ever will be, the governing passion of my soul: Liberty for each, for all, for ever.

An equal application of law to every condition of man is fundamental

You cannot control a free society by force.

Law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual.

It is ingrained into our national life that the rule of law makes us free.