Quotes about Freedom
We grant no dukedoms to the few, We hold like rights and shall; Equal on Sunday in the pew, On Monday in the mall. For what avail the plough or sail, Or land, or life, if freedom fail?
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
If he have faith, the believer cannot be restrained. He betrays himself. He breaks out. He confesses and teaches this gospel to the people at the risk of life itself.
— Martin Luther
A basic sign of revival is that the wind is allowed to blow where it will.
— Jim Cymbala
Our American values are not luxuries but necessities, not the salt in our bread, but the bread itself. Our common vision of a free and just society is our greatest source of cohesion at home and strength abroad, greater than the bounty of our material blessings.
— Jimmy Carter
America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense… human rights invented America.
— Jimmy Carter
When people are intimidated about having their own opinions, oppression is at hand.
— Jimmy Carter
A man has a property in his opinions and the free communication of them.
— James Madison
Government's first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives.
— Ronald Reagan
Protecting the rights of even the least individual among us is basically the only excuse the government has for even existing.
— Ronald Reagan
Who dares not speak his free thought is a slave.
— Euripides
Isn't it delightful to forget how old we are?
— Euripides
No one is truly free, they are a slave to wealth, fortune, the law, or other people restraining them from acting according to their will.
— Euripides