More Freedom Quotes And Sayings

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“Liberty will not descend to a people; a people must raise themselves to liberty; it is a blessing that must be earned before it can be enjoyed.”
– Charles Caleb Colton

“In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I do not shrink from this responsibility — I welcome it.”
– John F. Kennedy

“Do not destroy that immortal emblem of humanity, the Declaration of Independence.”
– Abraham Lincoln

“There can be no real freedom without the freedom to fail.”
– Eric Hoffer

“Who then is free? The one who wisely is lord of themselves, who neither poverty, death or captivity terrify, who is strong to resist his appetites and shun honors, and is complete in themselves smooth and round like a globe.”
– Horace

“We are free to yield to truth.”
– Horace

“The basic test of freedom is perhaps less in what we are free to do than in what we are free not to do.”
– Eric Hoffer

“Freedom consists not in refusing to recognize anything above us, but in respecting something which is above us; for by respecting it, we raise ourselves to it, and, by our very acknowledgment, prove that we bear within ourselves what is higher, and are worthy to be on a level with it”
– Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

“Liberty is a different kind of pain from prison.”
– T.S. Eliot

“Liberty is slow fruit. It is never cheap; it is made difficult because freedom is the accomplishment and perfectness of man.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep’s throat, for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty.”
– Abraham Lincoln

“How absurd men are! They never use the liberties they have, they demand those they do not have. They have freedom of thought, they demand freedom of speech.”
– Soren Kierkagaard

“When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists; but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more.”
– john Adams

“The time is near at hand which must determine whether Americans are to be free men or slaves.”
– George Washington

“It is hard to free fools from the chains they revere.”
– Voltaire

“Liberty, then, about which so many volumes have been written is, when accurately defined, only the power of acting.”
– Voltaire

“The true character of liberty is independence, maintained by force.”
– Voltaire

“Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.”
– Franklin D. Roosevelt

“The English think they are free. They are free only during the election of members of parliament.”
– Jean Jacques Rousseau

“Free people, remember this maxim: We may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lost.”
– Jean Jacques Rousseau

“Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.”
– John Milton

“We must be willing to pay a price for freedom.”
– Henry Louis Mencken

“Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.”
– Thomas Paine

“It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have everything one wants.”
– Blaise Pascal

“Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself.”
– Salman Rushdie

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