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Quotes About Freedom

Make love, not war. Unless you're Loki, in which case: do what you want.
~ Tom Hiddleston
The revolution is the war of liberty against its enemies. The constitution is the rule of liberty against its enemies. The constitution is the rule of liberty when victorious and peaceable.
~ Maximilien Robespierre
We will glorify war-the world's only hygiene, milliterism, patriotism , the destructive gesture of freedom-bringers, beautiful ideas worth dying for, and scorn for woman
~ Filippo Tommaso Marinetti
The solemn pride that must be yours to have laid so costly a sacrifice upon the altar of freedom.
~ Abraham Lincoln
Better to reign in hell than serve in heav'n.
~ John Milton
Observe that anyone who dies for his country is a fortunate man, but death takes what it wants, indiscriminately, in peace-time as well as in war. It is better to die with freedom than without it.
~ Haile Selassie
You dislike the emancipation proclamation; and, perhaps, would have it retracted. You say it is unconstitutional - I think differently.
~ Abraham Lincoln
If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong.
~ Abraham Lincoln
One can...never create [freedom] by an invading force.
~ Maximilien Robespierre
The pertinent question: if Americans did not want these wars should they have been compelled to fight them?
~ Frank Chodorov
Those who suppress freedom always do so in the name of law and order.
~ John Lindsay
Fear of joy is the darkest of captivities.
~ Phil Kaye
We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home.
~ Edward R. Murrow
The war against illegal file-sharing is like the church's age-old war against masturbation. It's a war you just can't win.
~ Lawrence Lessig
Do you care about freedom? Dreams may have inspired it, and wishes prompted it, but only war and weapons have made it yours.
~ Robert Ardrey
Can a nation be free if it oppresses other nations? It cannot.
~ Vladimir Lenin
Most of wars or military coups or invasions are done in the name of democracy against democracy.
~ Eduardo Galeano
Then, after the war it was impossible to travel, after so many years of Hitler and Stalin.
~ Gyorgy Ligeti
All those who seek to destroy the liberties of a democratic nation ought to know that war is the surest and shortest means to accomplish it.
~ Alexis de Tocqueville
Slavery cannot exist a day or an hour anywhere, unless it is supported by local police regulations.
~ Stephen A. Douglas
You actually cannot sell the idea of freedom, democracy, diversity, as if it were a brand attribute and not reality -- not at the same time as you're bombing people, you can't.
~ Naomi Klein
The greatest curse that can befall a free people, is civil war.
~ Alexander H. Stephens
By maintaining the separation of church and state, the United States has avoided the intolerance which has so divided the rest of the world with religious wars.
~ Barry Goldwater
The anarch wages his own wars, even when marching in rank and file
~ Ernst Jünger, Eumeswil