Quote from Sir James MacKintosh 

"It is not because we have been free, but because we have a right to be free, that we ought to demand freedom. Justice and liberty have neither birth nor race, youth nor age."

Quote by:
Sir James MacKintosh
(1765-1832) Scottish historian and statesman
Source:
Vindicae Gallicae, 1791
 
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