Quotes about Freedom
Irreverence is the champion of liberty and its only sure defense.
— Mark Twain
It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either.
— Mark Twain
Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.
— Mark Twain
We said there warn't no home like a raft, after all. Other places do seem so cramped up and smothery, but a raft don't. You feel mighty free and easy and comfortable on a raft.
— Mark Twain
It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.
— Mark Twain
Censorship is telling a man he can't have a steak just because a baby can't chew it.
— Mark Twain
When you begin to realize that your past does not necessarily dictate the outcome of your future, then you can release the hurt. It is impossible to inhale new air until you exhale the old.
— Bishop TD Jakes
The past doesn't determine your future unless you carry it with you into the present. Forgiving yourself and others, you free the universe to begin again at any moment.
— Marianne Williamson
Like a precious family heirloom, freedom is not just ours to enjoy, but to treasure, protect, and pass on to future generations.
— Os Guinness
I say to you that our goal is freedom, and I believe we are going to get there because however much she strays away from it, the goal of America is freedom.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Always drink upstream from the herd.
— Will Rogers
Democracy becomes a government of bullies tempered by editors.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson