Quotes about Freedom

If Swaraj is to be had by peaceful methods, it will only be attained by attention to every little detail of national life.

The truest test of a democracy is in the ability of anyone to act as he likes, so long as he does not injure the life or property of anyone else.

Conformity is that jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.

Israel was not created in order to disappear - Israel will endure and flourish. It is the child of hope and the home of the brave. It can neither be broken by adversity nor demoralized by success. It carries the shield of democracy and it honors the sword of freedom.

The high office of the President has been used to foment a plot to destroy the American's freedom and before I leave office, I must inform the citizen of this plight.

We stand for freedom. That is our conviction for ourselves that is our only commitment to others.

The rights of every man are diminished when the rights of one man are threatened.

If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich. [Inaugural Address, January 20 1961]

Liberty without Learning is always in peril and Learning without Liberty is always in vain.

I drink to all them that unfeignedly love the Gospel of Christ, and wish for the abolition of popery.

To one who has been long in city pent,'Tis very sweet to look into the fairAnd open face of heaven.

I myself am pursuing the same instinctive course as the veriest human animal you can think of—I am however young writing at random—straining at particles of light in the midst of a great darkness—without knowing the bearing of any one assertion of any one opinion. Yet may I not in this be free from sin?