inherent freedom Quotes

I have not brought you freedom, I found it here among you.

Man is created free, and is free, even though born in chains.

I was not born with a hunger to be free, I was born free.

Freedom is not a gift bestowed upon us by other men, but a right that belongs to us by the laws of God and nature.

I was born a slave, but nature gave me a soul of a free man.

The right to freedom being the gift of God, it is not in the power of man to alienate this gift and voluntarily become a slave.

You are born free. I was born free. The government can take your freedom away, but it did not give you your freedom. It was your human right. The key part of that is you are free first.

Men being born with a title to perfect freedom and uncontrolled enjoyment of all the rights and privileges of the law of nature. No one can be put out of his estate and subjected to the political view of another, without his consent.

Nature gives liberty even to dumb animals.

Truly free people do not need to be told they are free.

The state can't give you freedom, and the state can't take it away. You're born with it, like your eyes, like your ears. Freedom is something you assume, then you wait for someone to try to take it away. The degree to which you resist is the degree to which you are free.

Man is really free, the real man cannot but be free.

A lofty sense of independence is, in man, the best privilege of his nature.

Some people surrender their freedom willingly but others are forced to surrender it. Imprisonment begins with birth. Society, parents they refuse to allow you to keep the freedom you were born with. There are subtle ways to punish a person for daring to feel. You see that everyone around you has destroyed his true feeling nature. You imitate what you see.

Freedom has ceased to be a birthright; it has come to mean whatever we are still permitted to do.

He that has his chains knocked off, and the prison doors set open to him, is perfectly at liberty, because he may either go or stay, as he best likes; though his preference be determined to stay, by the darkness of the night, or illness of the weather, or want of other lodging.

What is so beneficial to the people as liberty, which we see not only to be greedily sought after by men, but also by beasts, and to be prepared in all things.

"All men are born equal and free" is not Nature's law in the literal sense.

Children are potentially free and their life directly embodies nothing save potential freedom. Consequently they are not things and cannot be the property either of their parents or others.

Liberty is given by nature even to mute animals.

I and you-We are infinate, rich, large, contradictory, living, breathing miracles-free human beings, children of God and the everlasting universe. That's what we do.

Every man by nature is a freeman born; by nature no man cometh out of the womb under any civil subjection to king, prince, or judge.