Robert G. Ingersoll Quotes

Liberty is not collective. It is personal.

Personal liberty is the paramount essential to human dignity and human happiness.

I believe that all people aspire to be free.

Liberty means that a man is recognized as free and treated as free by those who surround him.

What a free society offers to the individual is much more than what he would be able to do if only he were free.

I should like to be remembered as the man who raised a voice against... placing limitations on the freedom of the individual.

Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.

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.

All I'm for is the liberty of the individual.

We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.

Wherever there is repression of the individual, wherever there are acts contrary to the nature of the individual, there can be no greater crime.

There is but one special interest that we should be working for, and that would solve just about all of our problems, and that is our liberty.

It is essential that the young people of this country learn to respect the right of every man and woman to seek his or her happiness with minimal interference from the government.

We are simply allowing our right to self-determination to be stolen from us.

Freedom is independence of the compulsory will of another, and in so far as it tends to exist with the freedom of all according to a universal law, it is the one sole original inborn right belonging to every man in virtue of his humanity.

The freedom we enjoy is a richly textured gift handcrafted by ordinary folk

A man who believes in freedom will do anything under the sun to acquire, or preserve his freedom.

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

To be free is better than to be unfree – always. Any politician who suggests the opposite should be treated as suspect.

I have only one passion, the love of liberty and human dignity.

I believe that man is in the last resort so free a being that his right to be what he believes himself to be cannot be contested.

No man may make another free.

Liberty means more to me than life itself.

I believe, basically, that individual freedom is very important.