Quotes about Freedom

Don't dwell on your corruption to the degree that it keeps you from joy, freedom, and love.

We know life is short and eternity is long. This eternal perspective does not take us out of the world. It gives us freedom from self-pity.

The only sin that we can defeat is a forgiven sin.

The best guarantee against the abuse of power consists in the freedom, the purity, and the frequency of popular elections.

Roll, years of promise, rapidly roll round, till not a slave shall on this earth be found.

America... goes not abroad, in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to the freedom and independence of all.

Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it.

God does not control our minds without our consent; but if we desire to know and to do His will, His promises are ours: "Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free."

Wicked men may torture and kill the body, but they cannot touch the life that is hid with Christ in God. They can incarcerate men and women in prison walls, but they cannot bind the spirit.

Thus Esau despised his birthright." In disposing of it he felt a sense of relief. Now his way was unobstructed; he could do as he liked. For this wild pleasure, miscalled freedom, how many are still selling their birthright to an inheritance.

There can be no self-exaltation, no boastful claim to freedom from sin, on the part of those who walk in the shadow of Calvary's cross.

We, the People, recognize that we have responsibilities as well as rights that our destinies are bound together that a freedom which only asks what's in it for me, a freedom without a commitment to others, a freedom without love or charity or duty or patriotism, is unworthy of our founding ideals, and those who died in their defense.