Quotes About Freedom

The man dies in all who keep silent in the face of tyranny.-Wole Soyinka

The man dies in all who keep silent in the face of tyranny.

Justice is the armed defense of innocent liberty.

1. Open covenants of peace, openly arrived at.2. Absolute freedom of navigation upon the seas….5. A free, open-minded, and absolutely impartial adjustment of all colonial claims.

The world must be made safe for democracy.

Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance.

The history of liberty is a history of resistance.

The day has come when America is privileged to spend her blood and her might for the principles that gave her birth and happiness and the peace which she has treasured.

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.

The commands of democracy are as imperative as its privileges and opportunities are wide and generous. Its compulsion is upon us.

Only free peoples can hold their purpose and their honor steady to a common end and prefer the interest of mankind to any narrow interest of their own.

Our civilization cannot survive materially unless it is redeemed spiritually. It can be saved only by becoming permeated with the Spirit of Christ, and being made free and happy by practices which spring out of that spirit. Only thus can discontent be driven out and all shadows lifted from the road ahead.

The seed of revolution is repression.

We forget that there is much more patriotism in having the audacity to differ from the majority than in running before the crowd; we forget that in the resistance of the minority some of the biggest things in our own history have been accomplished, and the man who looks on the Stars and Stripes and doesn't hold a right to say nay to his neighbor, even if the neighbor is of the larger party, has forgotten the history of his country.

But the right is more precious than peace, and we shall fight for the things which we have always carried nearest our hearts

I would rather belong to a poor nation that was free than to a rich nation that had ceased to be in love with liberty.

Freedom exists only where people take care of the government.

You know how impossible it is, in short, to have a free nation if it is a military nation and under military orders

Just what is it that America stands for? If she stands for one thing more than another it is for the sovereignty of self-governing people.

When men take up arms to set other men free, there is something sacred and holy in the warfare.

If there are men in this country big enough to own the government of the United States, they are going to own it; what we have to determine now is whether we are big enough, whether we are men enough, whether we are free enough, to take possession again of the government which is our own.

I would rather belong to a poor nation that was free than to a rich nation that had ceased to be in love with liberty. But we shall not be poor if we love liberty, because the nation that loves liberty truly sets every man free to do his best and be his best.

America lives in the heart of every man everywhere who wishes to find a region where he will be free to work out his destiny as he chooses.

Well, freedom is wonderful. On the other hand, if you're dead, it's a tremendous drawback to your sex life.