Quotes about Freedom
The free school is the promoter of that intelligence which is to preserve us as a free nation. If we are to have another contest in the near future of our national existence, I predict that the dividing line will not be Mason and Dixon's, but between patriotism and intelligence on the one side—and superstition, ambition, and ignorance on the other.
— Ulysses S. Grant
No political party can or ought to exist when one of its corner-stones is opposition to freedom of thought and to the right to worship God "according to the dictate of one's own conscience," or according to the creed of any religious denomination whatever. Nevertheless, if a sect sets up its laws as binding above the State laws, wherever the two come in conflict this claim must be resisted and suppressed at whatever cost.
— Ulysses S. Grant
The Bible is the anchor of our liberties.
— Ulysses S. Grant
No political party can or ought to exist when one of its cornerstones is opposition to freedom of thought and to the right to worship God "according to the dictate of one's own conscience," or according to the creed of any religious denomination whatever.
— Ulysses S. Grant
If one could only get out of a grief as one gets out of a city!
— Victor Hugo
Liberation is not deliverance. One gets free from the galleys, but not from the sentence.
— Victor Hugo
It was said of him that he had once been for a short time in Bedlam; they had done him the honour to take him for a madman, but had set him free on discovering that he was only a poet. This story was probably not true; we have all to submit to some such legend about us.
— Victor Hugo
Release is not the same as liberation. You get out of jail, all right, but you never stop being condemned.
— Victor Hugo
Liberation is not deliverance. One gets free from the galleys, but not from the sentence. That
— Victor Hugo
Revolution is the accession of the peoples, and, at the bottom, the People is Man.
— Victor Hugo
His only theatre is the free show that god provides, the sky and the stars, flowers and children, mankind who's sufferings he shares and the created world in which he is trying his wings
— Victor Hugo
With just the 'Carmagnole' to sing he will only overthrow Louis XVI; but give him the 'Marseillaise' and he will liberate the world.
— Victor Hugo