Quotes on Independence And Freedom

Better to die fighting for freedom then be a prisoner all the days of your life.

For some days, people thought that India was shaking. But there are always tremors when a great tree falls.

Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.

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.

Then join hand in hand, brave Americans all! By uniting we stand, by dividing we fall.

It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.

One individual may die for an idea, but that idea will, after his death, incarnate itself in a thousand lives.

The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.

True independence and freedom can only exist in doing what's right.

The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.

My God! How little do my countrymen know what precious blessings they are in possession of, and which no other people on earth enjoy!

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

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

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.

We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women 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.

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