Quotes About Freedom

Lincoln said that cultivating even 'the smallest quantity' of ground bred freedom and independence. 'Ere long the most valuable of all arts, will be the art of deriving a comfortable subsistence from the smallest area of soil. No community whose every member possesses this art, can ever be the victim of oppression of any of its forms. Such community will be alike independent of crowned-kings, money-kings, and land-kings.

Revolution without revelation is tyranny.

Freedom begins the moment you realize someone else has been writing your story and it's time you took the pen from his hand and started writing it yourself.

Constitutional democracy, you see, is no romantic notion. It's our defense against ourselves, the one foe who might defeat us.

secrecy is the freedom tyrants dream of

A free press is one where it's ok to state the conclusion you're led to by the evidence.

No one is my enemy or the Gospel's... just prisoners of war that Christ longs to set free.

It can't be overstated how wonderful it is not to have to audition any more. Any actor will tell you, it's like Christmas.

I don't even own a car.

I believe the highest aspiration of man should be individual freedom and the development of the individual. That there is a sacredness to individual rights!

All free men, wherever they live, are citizens of Berlin," said the president. "And therefore, as a free man, I take pride in the words, 'Ich bin ein Berliner.

He had compared the taxation to a form of slavery and had encouraged his fellow Jews to rise up against their oppressors.

Our goal is not the victory of might, but the vindication of right. Not peace at the expense of freedom, but both peace and freedom—here in this hemisphere and, we hope, around the world. God willing, that goal will be achieved.

God had a divine purpose in placing this land between two great oceans to be found by those who had a special love of freedom and courage. —RONALD REAGAN

Doing the right thing requires us to humanize the guestworker upon whom we have come to rely. Thus, establishing a worker program must be done in a manner that provides the workers with hope for membership and respect from other Americans. A path toward legalization becomes a critical ingredient of any guestworker program. Only through that path can these individuals attain a sense of enfranchisement and freedom from political subjugation and servitude.

Americans will respect your beliefs if you just keep them private.

In this new century, our commitment to family and to faith, to community and opportunity, to freedom and to hope, will be the light that shines to lead us forward.

Freedom is contagious. That's why despots fear it so much.

The President, in talking about freedom and democracy, is sparking a wave of very positive democratic sentiment that might help us override both Islamic fundamentalism that has formed in that region, and also some of the hatred for our policies of invading Iraq.

America's veterans and troops serving abroad today fought hard to preserve our red, white and blue, from the Revolutionary War to today's Global War Against Terrorism, and Congress' action today is appropriate for one of our most sacred symbols.

Our elections are free, it's in the results where eventually we pay.

Youth is when you're allowed to stay up late on New Year's Eve. Middle age is when you're forced to.

Look, we play the Star Spangled Banner before every game. You want us to pay income taxes, too?

I'm a Pirate!