Quotes about Freedom

It is not merely for to-day, but for all time to come that we should perpetuate for our children's children this great and free government, which we have enjoyed all our lives.

The free world must not prove itself worthy of its own past.

Now is the time to lift our national policy from the quicksand of racial injustice to the solid rock of human dignity.

Heaven lies about us in our infancy! Shades of the prison-house begin to close upon the growing boy.

If you want to be free, just start doing what God wants you to do, one step at a time, and you'll eventually walk out of your messes.

Not a single time have we gotten a right from Congress or from the President. We get them from God.

Nothing binds you except your thoughts; nothing limits you except your fear; and nothing controls you except your beliefs.

You have tremendous gifts to give; God sent them with you when you came to this earth. And while you might forget them, or doubt they exist, God does not forget and He will show them to you. As soon as your gifts are dedicated to His work, they will blossom. Chains that might have held you back for years will dissolve. And you will feel free. You will learn that your spirit is bigger than your circumstances, as soon as you put your spirit first.

God is definitely out of the closet.

A spiritual reinterpretation of events gives us miraculous authority to command the winds, to part the waters, and to break all chains that bind us.

In every moment we make a decision — whether conscious or unconscious. Will I choose to open my heart, send love, withhold judgment and thus free myself from fear? Or will I close my heart, project fear instead of extending love, judge others, and thus bind myself to fear? The choice is mine and mine alone.

Without personal commitment to the attributes of fair play and integrity, the United States is in grave danger. Malice and intolerance stalk our society, staking claim to our minds, and not one corner of our social order is unaffected. This darkness is a significant threat to our national good, perhaps the most significant threat in our history, for it strikes at the heart of democracy. Where people are not free to disagree, there can be no democracy, since that is what democracy is.