Quotes about Freedom

Oh Lord,' inquired Isabella, 'what is this slavery, that it can do such dreadful things? what evil can it not do?' Well may she ask, for surely the evils it can and does do, daily and hourly, can never be summed up, till we can see them as they are recorded by him who writes no errors, and reckons without mistake.

Look there above the center, where the flag is waving bright; We are going out of slavery, we are bound for freedom's light; We mean to show Jeff Davis how the Africans can fight...

The good man, though a slave, is free; the wicked, though he reigns, is a slave.

We were ensnared by the wisdom of the serpent; we are set free by the foolishness of God.

And the good delight to hear of the past evils of such as are now freed from them, not because they are evils, but because they have been and are not.

Choose to love whomsoever thou wilt: all else will follow.

No longer, then, follow after false and deceitful gods; abjure them rather, and despise them, bursting forth into true liberty. Gods they are not, but malignant spirits, to whom your eternal happiness will be a sore punishment.

Therefore we are by no means compelled, either, retaining the prescience of God, to take away the freedom of the will, or, retaining the freedom of the will, to deny that He is prescient of future things, which is impious. But we embrace both. We faithfully and sincerely confess both. The former, that we may believe well; the latter, that we may live well.

Therefore the good man, although he is a slave, is free; but the bad man, even if he reigns, is a slave.

The most critical threat to our freedom is a failure to appreciate the power of truth.

People should be free, people should be unencumbered by regulation as much as possible, that big government always goes corrupt and the truth shall always set you free.

The durability of free speech and free press rests on the simple concept that it search for the truth and tell the truth.