Freedom Quotes

Not merely by rules of conduct and religious observances, nor by much learning either, nor even by attainment of concentration, nor by sleeping alone, do I reach the happiness of freedom, to which no worldlings attain. If you have not put an end to compulsions, nurse your faith.

Freedom is when you are easy in the harness.

If society fits you comfortably enough, you call it freedom.

The only certain freedom's in departure.

A man has got to keep his extrication.The important thing is not to get bogged downIn what he has to do to earn a living.

Let me not look for allies in life's battlefield,But to my own strength. Let me not crave in anxious fear to be saved,But for the patience to win my freedom.

Power said to the world, "You are mine." The world kept it prisoner on her throne. Love said to the world, "I am thine." The world gave it the freedom of her house.

Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.

I am able to love my God because He gives me freedom to deny Him.

Let my love like sunlight surround you and yet give you illumined freedom.

We gain freedom when we have paid the full price.

Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.

A house divided against itself cannot stand. I believe this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free.

Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.

I wish all men to be free.

I believe the Declaration that 'all men are created equal' is the great fundamental principle upon which our free institutions rest.

Let minor differences, and personal preferences, if there be such; go to the winds. Let it be seen by the result, that the cause of free-men and free-labor is stronger in Chicago that day, than ever before.

I have always hated slavery, I think as much as any Abolitionist.

As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy. Whatever differs from this, to the extent of the difference, is no democracy.

Our reliance is in the love of liberty which God has planted in our bosoms. Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes liberty as the heritage of all men, in all lands, everywhere.