Quotes About Freedom

The job of a citizen is to keep his mouth open.

The world must be made safe for democracy.

While democracy must have its organization and controls, its vital breath is individual liberty.

Despotism can no more exist in a nation until the liberty of the press be destroyed than the night can happen before the sun is set.

Every dog is entitled to one bite.

Land of hope and glory, Mother of the Free How shall we extol thee,who are borne of thee? Wider still and wider shall thy bounds be set; God who made thee mighty, make thee mightier yet.

Rule Britannia, Britannia, rule the waves; Britains never will be slaves.

The young Cambridge group, the group that stood for "freedom" and flannel trousers and flannel shirts open at the neck, and a well-bred sort of emotional anarchy, and a whispering, murmuring, sort of voice, and an ultra-sensitive sort of manner.

England is the paradise of individuality, eccentricity, heresy, anomalies, hobbies and humours.

Leisure is being allowed to do nothing.

You've got to sing like you don't need the money. You've got to love like you'll never get hurt. You've got to dance like there's nobody watching. You've got to come from the heart, if you want it to work.

We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with inalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

The sight of a cage is only frightening to the bird that has once been caught.

Oh! say, does that star-spangled banner yet wave, O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave.

Yes, we'll rally round the flag, boys, we'll rally once again, Shouting the battle-cry of Freedom, We will rally from the hillside, we'll gather from the plain, Shouting the battle-cry of Freedom.

It is hard to free fools from the chains they revere.

To carry a grudge is like being stung to death by one bee.

Resentments are burdens we don't need to carry.

We can be thankful to a friend for a few acres or a little money; and yet for the freedom and command of the whole earth, and for the great benefits of our being, our life, health, and reason, we look upon ourselves as under no obligation.

The happiness of any given life is to be measured not by its joys and pleasures, but by the extent to which it has been free from suffering, from positive evil.

Who covets more is evermore a slave.

France, freed from that monster, Bonaparte, must again become the most agreeable country on earth. It would be the second choice of all whose ties of family and fortune give a preference to some other one, and the first choice of all not under those ties.

There can be no friendship when there is no freedom. Friendship loves the free air, and will not be fenced up in straight and narrow enclosures.

Ef women want any rights more'n dey got, why don't dey jes' take 'em and not be talkin' about it.