Quotes About Freedom

People of Western Europe: A landing was made this morning on the coast of France by troops of the Allied Expeditionary Force. This landing is part of the concerted United Nations plan for the liberation of Europe, made in conjunction with our great Russian allies…. I call upon all who love freedom to stand with us now. Together we shall achieve victory.

Politics ought to be the part-time profession of every citizen who would protect the rights and privileges of free people and who would preserve what is good and fruitful in our national heritage.

There is nothing wrong with America that faith, love of freedom, intelligence, and energy of her citizens cannot cure.

The history of free men is never really written by chance but by choice their choice!

Here in America we are descended in spirit from revolutionists and rebels - men and women who dare to dissent from accepted doctrine.

If you want total security, go to prison. There you're fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking... is freedom.

Don't join the book burners. Don't think you're going to conceal faults by concealing evidence that they ever existed. Don't be afraid to go in your library and read every book...

Don't join the book burners. Do not think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed.

On that day let us solemnly remember the sacrifices of all those who fought so valiantly, on the seas, in the air, and on foreign shores, to preserve our heritage of freedom, and let us reconsecrate ourselves to the task of promoting an enduring peace so that all their efforts shall not have been in vain.

We have heard much of the phrase, peace and friendship. This phrase, in expressing the aspiration of America, is not complete. We should say instead, peace and friendship, in freedom. This, I think, is America's real message to the rest of the world.

Don't join the book burners. Don't think you're going to conceal faults by concealing evidence that they ever existed. Don't be afraid to go in your library and read every book...

If you want total security, go to prison. There you're fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking... is freedom.

May we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.

The history of free men is never written by chance but by choice - their choice.

Americans, indeed all free men, remember that in the final choice a soldier's pack is not so heavy a burden as a prisoner's chains.

I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of their way and let them have it.

the writer is driven by his need to escape the limits of a too-small world, the World That Is. It's in his blood to range farther than life can ever let him go.

Arbitrary rules restrict and inhibit you. Knowing why sets you free.

Life, a good life, a great life is about "Why not?" May we never forget it.

Life is about making your own happiness - and living by your own rules.

It must be poor life that achieves freedom from fear.

It is preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly.

No matter your position, circumstances, or opportunities in life, you always have the freedom of mind to choose how you experience, interpret, and, ultimately, shape your world.

Reading can be a road to freedom or a key to a secret garden, which, if tended, will transform all of life.