Freedom Quotes
Freedom is not the right to do as you please,
but the liberty to do as you ought....Unknown.
For those who fight for it, freedom has a flavor
the protected will never know....written on a
C-ration box found after the siege of Khe Sanh 1968.
Freedom is a package deal -- with it comes
responsibilities and consequences....Unknown.
Freedom is not an unlimited license,
an unlimited choice, or an unlimited opportunity.
Freedom is first of all a responsibility before
the God from whom we come....Alan Keyes.
Everything that is really great and
inspiring is created by the individual who
can labor in freedom....Albert Einstein.
Only our individual faith in freedom
can keep us free....Dwight David Eisenhower.
The best society, the best human existence,
arrives when humans most closely determine
the truth, and act on the truth, and separate
it from superstition, falsity, or misinformation.
And there is no better system for determining
the truth than free speech: Testing the validity
of an idea in the waters of public
discussion and debate....Dave Rodgers.
When the people fear the government, you have tyranny.
When the government fears the people,
you have freedom.....Thomas Paine.
In the long history of the world, only a few generations
have been granted the role of defending freedom
in its hour of maximum danger. I do not shrink
from this responsibility -- I welcome it....John Fitzgerald. Kennedy.
Freedom is not something that anybody can be given.
Freedom is something people take,
and people are as free as they want to be....James Baldwin.
Fight and you may die. Run and you'll live,
at least a while. And, dying in your beds,
many years from now, would you be willing
to trade all the days from this day to that
for one chance -- just one chance -- to come back here
and tell our enemies, that they may take our lives,
but they'll never take our freedom!....Braveheart.
The only freedom which deserves the name is that of
pursuing our own good in our own way, so long as we
do not attempt to deprive others of theirs, or impede
their efforts to obtain it. Each is the proper guardian
of his own health, whether bodily, or mental or spiritual.
Mankind are greater gainers by suffering each other to live
as seems good to themselves, than by compelling
each to live as seems good to the rest....John Stuart Mill.
In the future days, which we seek to make secure, we look forward
to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms. The first
is freedom of speech and expression -- everywhere in the world.
The second is freedom of every person to worship God in his own
way -- everywhere in the world. The third is freedom from want --
which, translated into world terms, means economic understandings
which will secure to every nation a healthy peacetime life for its
inhabitants -- everywhere in the world. The fourth is freedom from
fear -- which, translated into world terms, means a world-wide reduction
of armaments to such a point and in such a thorough fashion that no
nation will be in a position to commit an act of physical aggression
against any neighbor -- anywhere in the world....Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
Books were my pass to personal freedom.
I learned to read at age three, and soon discovered
there was a whole world to conquer that went beyond
our farm in Mississippi....Oprah Winfrey.
A man can be free even within prison walls.
Freedom is something spiritual. Whoever
has once had it, can never lose it. There are some
people who are never free outside a prison....Unknown.
It is by the goodness of God that in our country
we have those three unspeakably precious things:
freedom of speech, freedom of conscience,
and the prudence never to practice either....Mark Twain.
Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death....General Michel Aoun.
Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom....Raymonde Uy.
I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to
the death your right to say it....Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire.
I think people resist freedom because they're afraid of the unknown.
But it's ironic....That unknown was once very well known. It's where
our souls belong....The only solution is to confront them -- confront
yourself -- with the greatest fear imaginable. Expose yourself to your
deepest fear. After that, fear has no power, and fear of freedom
shrinks and vanishes. You are free....James Douglas Morrison.
If you assume that there's no hope, you guarantee
that there will be no hope. If you assume that there
is an instinct for freedom, there are opportunities
to change things, there's a chance for you to contribute
to making a better world. That's your choice....Noam Chomsky.
Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost
my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope
you will make good use of it....John Quincy Adams.
You believe that flag burning shows disrespect towards
those who have fought to preserve our freedoms.
Punishing protestors shows an even more profound
disrespect for the ideals that these people died for.
An intact flag is worthless if it no longer stands
for freedom. A flag burned to ashes challenges us to remember
just exactly what freedom is....Dr. Mary Ruwart.
You know that being an American is more
than a matter of where your parents came from.
It is a belief that all men are created free and equal
and that everyone deserves an even break....Harry S. Truman.
Freedom is a hard-bought
thing....Paul Robeson.
There are two freedoms -- the false,
where a man is free to do what he likes;
the true, where he is free to do
what he ought....Charles Kingsley.
When we lose the right to be different,
we lose the privilege to be free....Charles Evans Hughes.
The Negro needs the white man to free him
from his fears. The white man needs the Negro
to free him from his guilt....Martin Luther King, Jr.
Freedom is man's capacity to take a
hand in his own development. It is our
capacity to mold ourselves....Rollo May.
There is no liberation without
labor...and there is no freedom
which is free....The Siri Singh Sahib.
The secret of freedom,
courage....Thucydides.
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....Samuel Adams.
The great German poet, Goethe, said to his generation:
"What you have inherited from your fathers,
earn over again for yourselves or it will not be yours."
We inherited freedom and because of that
we seem unaware that freedom has to be remade
and re-earned in each generation....emailourmilitary.com.
Those who expect to reap the blessings
of freedom must, like men, undergo the
fatigue of supporting it....Thomas Paine.
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