Quotes about Freedom

He who loses an opportunity is like the man who lets a bird fly from his hand, for he will never recover it.

It is infinitely easier to suffer in obedience to a human command than to accept suffering as free, responsible men.

Men may make laws to hinder and fetter the ballot, but men cannot make laws that will bind or retard the growth of manhood.

The real democratic American idea is, not that every man shall be on a level with every other man, but that every man shall have liberty to be what God made him, without hindrance.

One day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free.

Ultimate freedom is a man's right to choose his attitude.

There is no more fundamental axiom of American freedom than the familiar statement: In a free country we punish men for the crimes they commit but never for the opinions they have.

All good men are anarchists. All cultured, kindly men; all gentlemen; all just men are anarchists. Jesus was an anarchist.

No man in his senses can hesitate in choosing to be free, rather than a slave.

For after years of living in a cage, a lion no longer even believes it is a lion . . . and a man no longer believes he is a man.

You are not who you are in Christ because of the things you have done; you are in Christ because of what He has done. He died and rose again so that you and I could live in the freedom of His love.

Christ has done everything necessary for us to be free. He wants us to be free so much that He gave Himself as a ransom to die on a cross. Then He gave Himself to us. We are one with Christ because our souls are in union with Him. There is nothing else God needs to do for us to be free.