Quotes about Freedom

The only object of liberty is life.

At the present moment in world history nearly every nation must choose between alternative ways of life. The choice is too often not a free one.

Prayer is the breath of your life which gives you the freedom to go and stay where you wish and to find the many signs which point out the way to a new land.

There comes a time when people get tired of being trampled over by the iron feet of oppression.

Anarchy is the sure consequence of tyranny; or no power that is not limited by laws can ever be protected by them.

Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to my conscience, above all liberties.

The conquer'd, also, and enslaved by war, Shall, with their freedom lost, all virtue lose.

Though all the winds of doctrine were let loose to play upon the earth, so truth be in the field, we do injuriously, by licensing and prohibiting, to misdoubt her strength. Let her and falsehood grapple; who ever knew truth put to the worse, in a free and open encounter?

At last he rose, and twitch'd his mantle blue: Tomorrow to fresh woods and pastures new.

Who, as they sung, would take the prison'd soul And lap it in Elysium.

Nations grown corrupt Love bondage more than liberty; Bondage with ease than strenuous liberty.

There is no truth sure enough to justify persecution.