Society, Justice & Peace: Freedom Quotes

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

Winston Churchill, Statesman

Winston Churchill

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

Bob Marley, Musician

Bob Marley

"Freedom is a possession of inestimable value"

Cicero, Philosopher

Cicero

"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

Cicero

"Empire and liberty"

Cicero, Philosopher

Cicero

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

H. L. Mencken, Writer

H. L. Mencken

"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

H. L. Mencken

"Man is not free unless government is limited"

Ronald Reagan, President

Ronald Reagan

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

Thomas Jefferson, President

Thomas Jefferson

"Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!"

Ronald Reagan, President

Ronald Reagan

"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

Thomas Jefferson

"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

Thomas Jefferson

"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

Thomas Jefferson

"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

Thomas Jefferson

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

Thomas Jefferson, President

Thomas Jefferson

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

Thomas Jefferson, President

Thomas Jefferson

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

Thomas Jefferson, President

Thomas Jefferson

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

Thomas Jefferson, President

Thomas Jefferson

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

Thomas Jefferson, President

Thomas Jefferson

"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

Ronald Reagan

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

Thomas Jefferson, President

Thomas Jefferson

"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

Ronald Reagan

"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

Thomas Jefferson

"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

Victor Hugo

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

Victor Hugo, Author

Victor Hugo

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

Victor Hugo, Author

Victor Hugo

"Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme liberty"

Plato, Philosopher

Plato

"The strongest and most effective force in guaranteeing the long-term maintenance of power is not violence in all the forms deployed by the dominant to control the dominated, but consent in all the forms in which the dominated acquiesce in their own domination"

Robert Frost, Poet

Robert Frost

"Freedom lies in being bold"

Robert Frost, Poet

Robert Frost

"You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind"

Mahatma Gandhi, Leader

Mahatma Gandhi

"Freedom is never dear at any price. It is the breath of life. What would a man not pay for living?"

Mahatma Gandhi, Leader

Mahatma Gandhi

"That government is best which governs least"

Henry David Thoreau, Author

Henry David Thoreau

"I was more independent than any farmer in Concord, for I was not anchored to a house or farm, but could follow the bent of my genius, which is a very crooked one, every moment"

Henry David Thoreau, Author

Henry David Thoreau

"The approach of liberty makes even an old man brave"

Seneca the Younger, Statesman

Seneca the Younger

"The worst thing in this world, next to anarchy, is government"

Henry Ward Beecher, Clergyman

"The real democratic American idea is, not that every man shall be on a level with every other man, but that every man shall have liberty to be what God made him, without hindrance"

Henry Ward Beecher, Clergyman

"Law represents the effort of man to organize society; governments, the efforts of selfishness to overthrow liberty"

Henry Ward Beecher, Clergyman

"Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free"

Dwight D. Eisenhower, President

Dwight D. Eisenhower

"Without a revolutionary theory there cannot be a revolutionary movement"

Vladimir Lenin, Leader

Vladimir Lenin

"It is true that liberty is precious; so precious that it must be carefully rationed"

Vladimir Lenin, Leader

Vladimir Lenin

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