Quotes About Freedom

In fact, there are more slaves in the world today than at any other point in human history, with an estimated 27 million in bondage across the globe.

Neither individuals nor corporations have any right to come into court and ask that the clock of history be stopped, or turned back.

History teaches the young the virtues of freedom. By apprising them of the past it will enable them to judge the future.

Today - wealthier, more powerful and more able than ever before in our history - our Nation can declare another essential freedom.

History may well record that we served liberty and saved freedom when we undertook a crash program in the field of education . . .. I hope this bill is only the forerunner of better things to come.

It will be hard to find a parallel in history in which unarmed people have represented the urge for freedom, turning their armlessness into the central means for deliverance.

The U.S. incarcerates more of its people than any nation in the world, or any nation in history.

Democracy is but an experiment in the long history of the world.

The transcendental promises a vacation from history.

I believe that the ideals that America has stood for throughout our history represent the highest ideals of humankind.

I would explain to my children very simply that the defense of liberty is a cause that exacts a very high price in the history of humankind.

Men make their own history, but they do not make it as they please.

I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.-Thomas Jefferson

Posterity! You will never know how much it cost the present generation to preserve your freedom! I hope you will make a good use of it.

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

A country of free men is not free if they are owned by somebody else.

History has demonstrated that efforts to censure and control communication will not succeed.

I think the most important idea is to remember that there have been times throughout American history where what is right is not the same as what is legal.

Liberty has never come from Government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of governmental power, not the increase of it.

We live in a country that talks about being the home of the brave and the land of the free, and we have the highest incarceration rate in the world.

Home is not where you were born; home is where all your attempts to escape cease.

Even if you can't sing well, sing. Sing to yourself. Sing in the privacy of your home. But sing.

I was not content at home. . . I wanted to live like a colorful butterfly in the sun.

I'm excited to be home, not wear makeup, and wear onesies.