Freedom Quotes

A nation that enslaves another forges its own chains.

He who confuses political liberty with freedom and political equality with similarity has never thought for five minutes about either.

The tyrant claims freedom to kill freedom, and yet keep it for himself.

Deliverance is not for me in renunciation. I feel the embrace of freedom in a thousand bonds of delight.

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.