Quotes About Freedom

The blood and sweat shed by United States and United Nations troops proved to be the prime mover behind the realisation of freedom throughout the post-war period.

This war is being played in the realm of public opinion and has dire consequences for our soldiers in Iraq, the future of our country, and freedom around the world.

Without peace, there is no freedom, individual or national. War and hostilities are a form of slavery.

The real triumph of civilization is the extent to which coercion is banished from human relations.

When one person can initiate war, by its definition, a republic no longer exists.

Thunder on! Stride on! Democracy. Strike with vengeful stroke!

A state of war is not a blank check... when it comes to the rights of the Nation's citizens.

The choice is not between violence and nonviolence but between nonviolence and nonexistence.

This is not a jungle war, but a struggle for freedom on every front of human activity.

Norway was occupied by the Germans in the Second World War, and I've met a lot of people who had to live through that occupation in varying degrees.

The War on Terror has been and continues to be, above all, a war on the most basic liberties and political safeguards that we're all taught are what distinguishes the US and keeps it free.

And so I'm saying that, yes, colonialism was terrible, and I describe it as a legacy of wars, but we ought to be moving away from that by now.

Like most Rebel soldiers, Sam Watkins owned no slaves.

We...are not really free if we can't control our own government and its policies. And we will never do that if we remain ignorant.

Always remember that a soldier's pack is lighter than a slave's chains.

In a free society, how can you commit a crime against yourself?

No one is fighting for my freedom unless they are doing it on my soil.

Funny, for all surveillance, Osama bin Laden is still free—and we're not. Guess who's winning the "war on terror?

For a generation, terrorists learned they could make war on free nations without fear of war in return. On September 12, the terrorists got war in return.

War is worthless except for ending slavery, Nazism, fascism, and communism. Other than that, war is pointless.

War is horrible, but slavery is worse.

There is no telling how many wars it will take to secure freedom in the homeland.

We have now reached a turning point in the struggle between freedom and terror.

We have never declared war on China. We have only asked them to leave us in peace, to let us have our natural freedom.