Quotes About Freedom

The shot heard round the world.

Peace, to have meaning for many who have only known suffering in both peace and war, must be translated into bread or rice, shelter, health and education, as well as freedom and human dignity.

The defence of human liberty against the aggressions of despotic power have been always the most efficient in States where domestic slavery was to prevail.

Gorbachev gave us freedom of worship and freedom of speech and freedom to see what was going on and freedom to vote, but that freedom won't last unless it is underpinned by economic freedom.

The trouble with free elections is that you never know how they are going to turn out.

The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in the insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning but without understanding.

Oh Liberty! Liberty! What crimes are committed in your name!

A standing army is a standing menace to liberty.

Republic. I like the sound of the word. It means people can live free, talk free, go or come, buy or sell, be drunk or sober, however they choose. Some words give you a feeling.

Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure.

Those who are asking for more government interference are asking ultimately for more compulsion and less freedom.

Slavery can never be abolished.

Peace is more than just an absence of war. True peace is justice, true peace is freedom, and true peace dictates the recognition of human rights.

In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free.

The nation is in a death-struggle. It must either become one vast slaveocracy of petty tyrants, or wholly the land of the free.

The only war is the war against the imagination.

Everyone has the right to practice their religion, to worship as they choose. My war is against Islamic fundamentalism.

This is a fight between a free world and a slave world.

Statism needs war; a free country does not. Statism survives by looting; a free country survives by producing.

Terrorists can endanger some of us, but the war on terror endangers us all. How much more can the Constitution be diminished before it is completely replaced by arbitrary government power?

In firing his gun, John Brown has merely told what time of day it is. It is high noon.

I took up writing to escape the drudgery of that every day cubicle kind of war.

One certain effect of war is to diminish freedom of expression. Patriotism becomes the order of the day, and those who question the war are seen as traitors, to be silenced and imprisoned.

There are things worth fighting for.