Quotes on Freedom

When you sing that this country was founded on freedom, don't forget the duet of shackles dragging against the ground my entire life.

Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.

If you're a Muslim and you love America and freedom and you hate terror, stay here and help us win and make a future together. We want you.

Our contest is not only whether we ourselves shall be free, but whether there shall be left to mankind an asylum on earth for civil and religious liberty.

There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured with what is right in America.

Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.

Yes, across Europe, this wall will fall. For it cannot withstand faith; it cannot withstand truth. The wall cannot withstand freedom.

Until you have lost your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was or what freedom really is.

Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.

Do you remember any instance where tyranny was destroyed and freedom established on its ruins, among a people possessing so small a share of virtue and public spirit? I recollect none, and this more than the British arms makes me fearful of final success, without a reform.

You get your freedom by letting your enemy know that you'll do anything to get it. Then you'll get it. It's the only way you'll get it.

In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved.

Life without Liberty is like a body without spirit. Liberty without thought is like a disturbed spirit.

Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.

For what avail the plough or sail, or land or life, if freedom fail?

We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better.

You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.

Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.

Every diminution of the liberty of the press is followed by a diminution of civilization. Wherever we see the freedom of the press interfered with, there we see the nutrition of the human family interrupted.