Henry David Thoreau Quotes

If one is going to err, one should err on the side of liberty and freedom.

The right to be let alone—the most comprehensive of rights and the most valued by civilized men.

You either respect people's liberties, or you don't.

In duty the individual acquires his substantive freedom

I have to respect my life, and free expression is part of my life. I can never really silence myself.

Liberty and responsibility are inseparable.

Without dignity, identity is erased.

I must be allowed to be as I am.

Despite everything, no one can dictate who you are to other people.

I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who considers himself my master. I want the full menu of rights.

Liberty has restraints but no frontiers.

I feel like freedom of speech is one of the great things in this country and the freedom to do what you feel is right.

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

Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual, you have an obligation to be one.

Freedom is the right to one's dignity as a man.

If you are living in a free society then use the freedom. What good is freedom if you do not use it.

Moral principles of liberty that endow a person with the right to claim and acquire property at the same time oblige that person to respect every other person’s equal right to do the same.

Respect for the freedom of someone else constitutes the highest duty of men

The individual is greater than the state.

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

I believe in Freedom as near absolute, as is consistent with safety. I believe in free thought, free speech and free Press... .

To have a personal life is the minimum freedom you have to give to a human being.

The human's being right to do as he pleases without interfering with someone else's rights is a formula defining rights prior to social legislation.

Why is freedom such a hard sell? That's the question. In this country, why has the idea of individual liberty and responsibility become such a hard sell? That's something I never thought would happen here.

Let each person have a chance to be who he or she wants to be. Only then can we be considered a truly liberated nation.