Quotes about Freedom
Man will be what he was born to be: free and independent.
— John F. Kennedy
For liberty hath a sharp and double edge, fit only to be handled by just and virtuous men; to bad and dissolute, it becomes a mischief unwieldy in their own hands.
— John Milton
Death opens the gate of fame, and shuts the gate of envy after it; it unlooses the chain of the captive, and puts the bondsman's task into another man's hand.
— Laurence Sterne
In the same degree in which a man's mind is nearer to freedom from all passion, in the same degree also is it nearer to strength.
— Marcus Aurelius
To say that God's sovereignty is limited by man's freedom is to make man sovereign.
— RC Sproul
Only by obedience to his genius; only by the freest activity in the way constitutional to him, does an angel seem to arise beforea man, and lead him by the hand out of all the wards of the prison.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Man is both strong and weak, both free and bound, both blind and far-seeing. He stands at the juncture of nature and spirit; and is involved in both freedom and necessity.
— Reinhold Niebuhr
Everyone asks for freedom for himself, The man free love, the businessman free trade, The writer and talker free speech and free press.
— Robert Frost
Thank God you can flee, can escape from that massy five-foot-thick maggot-cheesy solidarity which overlays the earth, in which men and women in couples are ranked like ninepins.
— William Faulkner
I believe the declaration that 'all men are created equal' is the great fundamental principle upon which our free institutions rest.
— Abraham Lincoln
Against us are all timid men who prefer the calm of despotism to the boisterous sea of liberty We are likely to preserve the liberty we have obtained only by unremitting labors and perils.
— Thomas Jefferson
The equal rights of man and the happiness of every individual are now acknowledged to be the only legitimate objects of government.
— Thomas Jefferson