Quotes About Freedom

The history of the meadow goes like this. No one owns it, no one ever will.

What is national freedom if not a people's inner freedom to cultivate its abilities along the beaten path of its history?

How fortunate it was for the world that when these great trials came upon it there was a generation that terror could not conquer and brutal violence could not enslave.

History doesn't have a curfew.

I hate it when they tell us how far we've came to be; as if our people's history started with slavery.

The prolonged slavery of woman is the darkest page in human history.

Freedom has always been an expensive thing. History is fit testimony to the fact that freedom is rarely gained without sacrifice and self-denial.

Fear of serious injury alone cannot justify oppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burnt women. It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears.

You have seen how a man was made a slave; you shall see how a slave was made a man.

Freedom is a system based on courage.

Call me an alarmist, but we are witnessing the beginning of the most frightening period of government tyranny in our nation's history.

The writing of histories - as Goethe once noted - is one way of getting rid of the weight of the past.... The writing of history liberates us from history.

I think perhaps of all the things a police state can do to its citizens, distorting history is possibly the most pernicious.

I think the most un-American thing you can say is, 'You can't say that.'

History has taught us that freedom cannot long survive unless it is based on moral foundations. You can get the economics right, but in addition liberty must be cultivated as a moral quality.

You will learn a lesson repeated through history, that no matter what you think, occupation is not victory!

America is the greatest nation in the history of the world. There's nothing like America.

The more laws that governments pass, the less individual freedom there is. Any student of history will tell you that. Totalitarian countries ban pretty much everything.

There are more people living in freedom today than at any other time in the history of the human race.

No people in history have ever survived who thought they could protect their freedom by making themselves inoffensive to their enemies.

History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government.

I don't know about birds nor do I know the history of fire. But I believe that my solitude should have wings

We boast our emancipation from many superstitions; but if we have broken any idols, it is through a transfer of idolatry.

Freedom does not always win. This is one of the bitterest lessons of history.