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It is absolutely amazing and inspiring, the variety of thought that have been passed down concerning freedom over the years…thanks to Paul at the “Live Intentionally” Web Site for gathered this list of quotes:
- If the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed. -John 8:36
- America, home of the free because of the brave. -Unknown
- Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves. -Abraham Lincoln
- The cause of Freedom is the cause of God! -Samuel Bowles
- Freedom without boundaries is like a river without banks. -Unknown
- He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from opposition. -Thomas Paine
- History does not teach fatalism. There are moments when the will of a handful of free men breaks through determinism and opens up new roads. -Charles de Gaulle
- Freedom has its life in the hearts, the actions, the spirit of men and so it must be daily earned and refreshed – else like a flower cut from its life-giving roots, it will wither and die. -Dwight D. Eisenhower
- The patriot’s blood is the seed of Freedom’s tree. -Thomas Campbell
- Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide. -Napoleon Bonaparte
- My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular. -Adlai Stevenson
- It is easy to take liberty for granted, when you have never had it taken from you. -Unknown
- We on this continent should never forget that men first crossed the Atlantic not to find soil for their ploughs but to secure liberty for their souls. -Robert J. McCracken
- Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it. -Thomas Paine
- Freedom is the oxygen of the soul. -Moshe Dayan
- There are two freedoms – the false, where a man is free to do what he likes; the true, where he is free to do what he ought. -Charles Kingsley
- No one is free when others are oppressed. -Unknown
- Men fight for freedom, then they begin to accumulate laws to take it away from themselves. ~Unknown
- Freedom is that instant between when someone tells you to do something and when you decide how to respond. -Jeffrey Borenstein
- Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have. -Harry Emerson Fosdick
- Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. -Woodrow Wilson
- We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it. -William Faulkner
- They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. -Benjamin Franklin
- No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck. -Frederick Douglass
- Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth. -George Washington
- I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations. -James Madison
- Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err. -Mahatma Gandhi
- Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally destructive. -Theodore Roosevelt
- Freedom is nothing else but a chance to be better. -Albert Camus
- Men fight for liberty and win it with hard knocks. Their children, brought up easy, let it slip away again, poor fools. And their grandchildren are once more slaves. -D.H. Lawrence
- Freedom is the will to be responsible to ourselves. -Nietzsche
- The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding. -Louis D. Brandeis
- Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it. -George Bernard Shaw
- The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion. -Edmund Burke
- Freedom is never free. -Unknown
- He who is brave is free. -Seneca
- While we are free to choose our actions, we are not free to choose the consequences of our actions. -Stephen Covey
- Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death. -Gen Michel Aoun
- Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed. -Martin Luther King Jr.
- Only the educated are free. -Epictetus
- To know how to free oneself is nothing; the arduous thing is to know what to do with one’s freedom. -Andre Gide
- Every human has four endowments- self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom… The power to choose, to respond, to change. -Stephen R. Covey
- All good things are wild, and free. -Henry David Thoreau
- Give me liberty or give me death. -Patrick Henry
- Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same. -Ronald Reagan
- Freedom prospers when religion is vibrant and the rule of law under God is acknowledged. -Ronald Reagan
- Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth. -John F. Kennedy
- The best road to progress is freedom’s road. -John F. Kennedy
- If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter. -George Washington
- Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility. For the person who is unwilling to grow up, the person who does not want to carry is own weight, this is a frightening prospect. -Eleanor Roosevelt
- For to be free is not merely to cast off one’s chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others. -Nelson Mandela
- The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because he has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim freedom for the prisoners and recovery of sight for the blind, to set the oppressed free. -Jesus, Luke 4:18
- You, my brothers and sisters, were called to be free. But do not use your freedom to indulge the flesh ; rather, serve one another humbly in love. -Galatians 5:13
- Live as free people, but do not use your freedom as a cover-up for evil. -1 Peter 2:16
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