“To say that any people are not fit for freedom, is to make poverty their choice, and to say they had rather be loaded with taxes than not.”
More from Thomas Paine on Freedom
“For though the flame of liberty may sometimes cease to shine, the coal can never expire.”
“Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must like men undergo the fatigue of supporting it.”
“Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must, like men, undergo the fatigues of supporting it.”
“Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.”
“When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon.”
Others on Freedom
Nelson Mandela
8 quotes“Let freedom reign. The sun never set on so glorious a human achievement.”
Thomas Jefferson
8 quotes“The Tree of Liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrant. It is its natural manure.”
Eisenhower
7 quotes“I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of their way and let them ha...”
Epictetus
7 quotes“Freedom is not archived by satisfying desire, but by eliminating it.”
James Madison
6 quotes“Liberty may be endangered by the abuse of liberty, but also by the abuse of power.”
Malcolm X
6 quotes“You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.”
Frederick Douglass
6 quotes“Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.”
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
6 quotes“To renounce freedom is to renounce one's humanity, one's rights as a man and equally one's duties.”
Spinoza
6 quotes“Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.”
John Milton
5 quotes“Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.”
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
5 quotes“When you have robbed a man of everything he is no longer in your power. He is free again.”
Cicero
5 quotes“Liberty is rendered even more precious by the recollection of servitude.”