~ Freedom Quotes ~

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]My fellow citizens of the world: ask not what America will do for you but what together we can do for the freedom of man.

John F. Kennedy

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]It is my living sentiment and by the blessing of God it shall be my dying sentiment independence now and independence forever.

Daniel Webster

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]Freedom is not something that anybody can be given; freedom is something people take and people are as free as they want to be.

James Baldwin

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.

Jim Morrison

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]If you want total security go to prison. There you're fed clothed given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking... is freedom.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]The jaws of power are always open to devour and her arm is always stretched out if possible to destroy the freedom of thinking speaking and writing.

John Adams

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]Most modern freedom is at root fear. It is not so much that we are too bold to endure rules; it is rather that we are too timid to endure responsibilities.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask.

Jim Morrison

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]Our natural inalienable rights are now considered to be a dispensation from government and freedom has never been so fragile so close to slipping from our grasp as it is at this moment.

Ronald Reagan

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]Freedom is not an ideal it is not even a protection if it means nothing more than freedom to stagnate to live without dreams to have no greater aim than a second car and another television set.

Adlai E. Stevenson

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]There is only one force of history that can break the reign of hatred and resentment and expose the pretensions of tyrants and reward the hopes of the decent and tolerant and that is the force of human freedom.

George W. Bush

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]Rome remained free for four hundred years and Sparta eight hundred although their citizens were armed all that time; but many other states that have been disarmed have lost their liberties in less than forty years.

Nicolo Machiavelli

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]Freedom is the right to question and change the established way of doing things. It is the continuous revolution of the marketplace. It is the understanding that allows us to recognize shortcomings and seek solutions.

Ronald Reagan

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]By our efforts we have lit a fire as well--a fire in the minds of men. It warms those who feel its power it burns those who fight its progress and one day this untamed fire of freedom will reach the darkest corners of our world.

George W. Bush

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one's time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all.

Henry Mencken