Quotes about Freedom
[Religious liberty was] in its nature an inalienable right ... because the opinions of men, depending only upon the evidence contemplated by their minds, cannot follow the dictates of other men.
— James Madison
Every man by nature is a freeman born; by nature no man cometh out of the womb under any civil subjection to king, prince, or judge.
— Samuel Rutherford
Wildness is the preservation of the World.
— Henry David Thoreau
Darkness is a prison from which only light escapes.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Let us give ourselves indiscriminately to everything our passions suggest, and we will always be happy…Conscience is not the voice of Nature but only the voice of prejudice.
— Marquis de Sade
It is my pleasure that my children are free and happy, and unrestrained by parental tyranny. Love is the chain whereby to bind a child to its parents.
— Abraham Lincoln
There is no negro problem. The problem is whether the American people have loyalty enough, honor enough, patriotism enough, to live up to their own constitution
— Frederick Douglass
Force, violence, pressure, or compulsion with a view to conformity, are both uncivilized and undemocratic
— Mahatma Gandhi
Lethargy is the forerunner of death to the public liberty.
— Thomas Jefferson
Never be ashamed of your patriotism.
— H Jackson Brown, Jr.
You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind.
— Mahatma Gandhi
We will not waver, we will not tire, we will not falter, and we will not fail. Peace and freedom will prevail.
— George W. Bush