Quotes About Freedom

You can't prevent World War III. You don't have any juice. In fact, World War III will free you. ... Your time has come.

With his trademark courage and conviction, President Reagan led us out of the Cold War, spreading his vision of freedom, resulting in the release of millions of people from the yoke of communism.

Honor, justice, and humanity, forbid us tamely to surrender that freedom which we received from our gallant ancestors, and which our innocent posterity have a right to receive from us.

My great objection to this government is, that it does not leave us the means of defending our rights, or of waging war against tyrants.

To die, so young to die. No, no, not I, I love the warm sunny skies, light, song, shining eyes, I want no war, no battle cry, No, no, not I.

We show our sympathy with slavery by emancipating slaves where we cannot reach them, and holding them in bondage where we can set them free.

A free government with an uncontrolled power of military conscription is the most ridiculous and abominable contradiction and nonsense that ever entered into the heads of men.

I am not a dictator, and I do not think I will become one. I will not maintain power with a machine gun.

I would rather have the United States as the world's policeman than the Soviet Union as the world's jailer.

Preventive war is a crime not easily committed by a country that retains any traces of democracy.

They can do anything we can't stop them from doing.

War is like any other bad relationship. Of course you want out, but at what price? And perhaps more importantly, once you get out, will you be any better off?" - Quellcrist Falconer

A small-state world would not only solve the problems of social brutality and war; it would solve the problems of oppression and tyranny. It would solve all problems arising from power.

It is not the fact of liberty but the way in which liberty is exercised that ultimately determines whether liberty itself survives.

The American people, North and South, went into the [Civil] war as citizens of their respective states, they came out as subjects ... what they thus lost they have never got back.

True obedience is true freedom.

As a nation we began by declaring that all me are created equal. We now practically read it, all men are created equal except Negroes.

The German people are not a warlike nation. It is a soldierly one, which means it does not want a war, but does not fear it. It loves peace but also loves its honor and freedom

The cause of the great War of the Rebellion against the United Status will have to be attributed to slavery.

Needless to say, they refused to submit to the Empire, conducting such a persistent guerrilla war that the Romans gave up hope of conquering Scotland, and the Wee Free Men remained both wee and free.

The anti-war movement should turn itself into a pro-democracy movement

Free nations don't develop weapons of mass destruction.

A defensive referendum is for avoiding war and to help keep the Taiwanese people free of fear.

The right to revolt has sources deep in our history.