Quotes about Freedom
You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than live as slaves.
— Winston Churchill
I am the dream and the hope of the slave
— Maya Angelou
In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free - honorable alike in what we give and what we preserve. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope of earth.
— Abraham Lincoln
Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave, I am the dream and the hope of the slave. I rise. I rise. I rise.
— Maya Angelou
To a freedom fighter hope is what a lifebelt is to a swimmer - a guarantee that one will keep afloat and free from danger.
— Nelson Mandela
Hope is a willing slave; despair is free.
— Charles G. Dawes
I flatter myself [we] have in this country extinguished forever the ambitious hope of making laws for the human mind.
— James Madison
Above all I hope that the education of the common people will be attended to so they won't forget the basic principles of freedom.
— Thomas Jefferson
There is preparing, I hope, under the auspices of heaven, a way for a total emancipation.
— Thomas Jefferson
Freedom is not our gift to the world it is God's gift to humanity.
— George W. Bush
Human rights are not a privilege conferred by government. They are every human being's entitlement by virtue of his humanity.
— Mother Teresa
Freedom is the direction of history, because freedom is the permanent hope of humanity.
— George W. Bush