Quotes
Quotes about Freedom
Bastard Freedom waves Her fustian flag in mockery over slaves.
Freedom all solace to man gives: He lives at ease that freely lives.
Whose service is perfect freedom.
Yet, Freedom! yet thy banner, torn, but flying, Streams like the thunder-storm against the wind.
For Freedom's battle once begun, Bequeath'd by bleeding sire to son, Though baffled oft is ever won.
Hope for a season bade the world farewell, And Freedom shrieked as Kosciusko fell! . . . . O'er Prague's proud arch the fires of ruin glow.
England may as well dam up the waters of the Nile with bulrushes as to fetter the step of Freedom, more proud and firm in this youthful land than where she treads the sequestered glens of Scotland, or couches herself among the magnificent mountains of Switzerland. - Mrs. Lydia Maria Child,
Perfect freedom is reserved for the man who lives by his own work and in that work does what he wants to do.
No, Freedom has a thousand charms to show That slaves, howe'er contented, never know.
We grant no dukedoms to the few, We hold like rights and shall; Equal on Sunday in the pew, On Monday in the mall. For what avail the plough or sail, Or land, or life, if freedom fail?
My angel,--his name is Freedom,-- Choose him to be your king; He shall cut pathways east and west, And fend you with his wing.
I gave my life for freedom--This I know; For those who bade me fight had told me so.
Bred in the lap of Republican Freedom.
Yes! to this thought I hold with firm persistence; The last result of wisdom stamps it true; He only earns his freedom and existence Who daily conquers them anew.
Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose. Nothing ain't worth nothing but it's free.
Once freedom lights its beacon in a man's heart, the gods are powerless against him.
Freedom rings where opinions clash.
Freedom is not an ideal, it is not even a protection, if it means nothing more than the freedom to stagnate.
Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must, like men, undergo the fatigues of supporting it.
To be what no one ever was, To be what everyone has been: Freedom is the mean of those Extremes that fence all effort in.
I know but one freedom and that is the freedom of the mind.
The unity of freedom has never relied on uniformity of opinion.
In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I do not shrink from this responsibility--I welcome it.
For what avail the plough or sail, Or land or life, if freedom fail?
We, and all others who believe in freedom as deeply as we do, would rather die on our feet than live on our knees.
