Society, Justice & Peace: Freedom Quotes

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"The perverse gift of the Chinese coronavirus is that it has given Americans an up close and personal look at the horrors of big government - and, by extension, socialism"

Charlie Kirk, Politician

"How can it possibly be that so many Americans are rallying to support Ocasio-Cortez, when all they need to do is look at Venezuela to see where she is leading them?"

Charlie Kirk, Politician

"Liberals like to say there aren't any limitations on speech, and it's true that they can say or do just about anything. But conservatives apparently can't even stand still while wearing a MAGA hat without crossing a line"

Charlie Kirk, Politician

"The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty. Plainly, the sheep and the wolf are not agreed upon a definition of liberty"

Abraham Lincoln, President

"Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes liberty as a heritage of all men, in all lands, everywhere. Destroy this spirit and you have planted the seeds of despotism around your own doors"

Abraham Lincoln, President

"The people will save their government, if the government itself will allow them"

Abraham Lincoln, President

"Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth"

Abraham Lincoln, President

"Don't interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be maintained, for it is the only safeguard of our liberties"

Abraham Lincoln, President

"The revelation of thought takes men out of servitude into freedom"

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Philosopher

"They who can give up essential liberty, to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety"

Benjamin Franklin, Politician

"If all printers were determined not to print anything till they were sure it would offend nobody, there would be very little printed"

Benjamin Franklin, Politician

"Home life is no more natural to us than a cage is natural to a cockatoo"

George Bernard Shaw, Dramatist

"All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope"

Winston Churchill, Statesman

"Freedom is a possession of inestimable value"

Cicero, Philosopher

"Freedom is a man's natural power of doing what he pleases, so far as he is not prevented by force or law"

Cicero, Philosopher

"Empire and liberty"

Cicero, Philosopher

"Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery, none but ourselves can free our minds!"

Bob Marley, Musician

"We must be willing to pay a price for freedom"

H. L. Mencken, Writer

"The worst government is often the most moral. One composed of cynics is often very tolerant and humane. But when fanatics are on top there is no limit to oppression"

H. L. Mencken, Writer

"Man is not free unless government is limited"

Ronald Reagan, President

"Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!"

Ronald Reagan, President

"Information is the oxygen of the modern age. It seeps through the walls topped by barbed wire, it wafts across the electrified borders"

Ronald Reagan, President

"Above all, we must realize that no arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women. It is a weapon our adversaries in today's world do not have"

Ronald Reagan, President

"We are not to expect to be translated from despotism to liberty in a featherbed"

Thomas Jefferson, President

"Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then, be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question"

Thomas Jefferson, President

"Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government, those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny"

Thomas Jefferson, President

"I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them but to inform their discretion"

Thomas Jefferson, President

"Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter"

Thomas Jefferson, President

"Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will, within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add 'within the limits of the law,' because law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual"

Thomas Jefferson, President

"In every country and every age, the priest had been hostile to Liberty"

Thomas Jefferson, President

"The world is indebted for all triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression"

Thomas Jefferson, President

"The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave"

Thomas Jefferson, President

"Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves are its only safe depositories"

Thomas Jefferson, President

"Errors of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it"

Thomas Jefferson, President

"Educate and inform the whole mass of the people... They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty"

Thomas Jefferson, President

"Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition"

Thomas Jefferson, President

"Our country is now taking so steady a course as to show by what road it will pass to destruction, to wit: by consolidation of power first, and then corruption, its necessary consequence"

Thomas Jefferson, President

"The omnipotence of evil has never resulted in anything but fruitless efforts. Our thoughts always escape from whoever tries to smother them!"

Victor Hugo, Author

"It is the end. But of what? The end of France? No. The end of kings? Yes"

Victor Hugo, Author

"He who is not capable of enduring poverty is not capable of being free"

Victor Hugo, Author

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