Freedom Quotes

Freedom and love go together. Love is not a reaction. If I love you because you love me, that is mere trade, a thing to be bought in the market; it is not love. To love is not to ask anything in return, not even to feel that you are giving something -- and it is only such love that can know freedom.

Freedom never yet was given to nations as a gift, but only as a reward, bravely earned by one's own exertions.

When we let freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of that old Negro spiritual, "Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!

If we catch a glimpse of freedom, we wish to possess it. If we catch a glimpse of death, we want nothing to do with it. One we cannot have; the other we cannot avoid.

The greatest Glory of a free-born People is to transmit that Freedom to their Children.

If people don't want to go to the picture, nobody can stop them. Our comedies are not to be laughed at.

A major source of objection to a free economy is precisely what that group thinks they ought to want. Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.

I believe in the "No Deposit, No Return" statement: unless we put into the American privilege of freedom of choice, we can expect no return; indeed, we have no right of return.

People who matter are most aware that everyone else does, too. Let your children go if you want to keep them.

Freedom is not worth fighting for if it means no more than license for everyone to get as much as he can for himself.

I gave my life for freedom, this I know, for those who bade me fight had told me so.

We are living in the excesses of freedom. Just take a look at nd Street an Broadway.

An empowered organization is one in which individuals have the knowledge, skill, desire, and opportunity to personally succeed in a way that leads to organizational success.

But what is Freedom? Rightly understood, A universal license to be good.

People who exercise their embryonic freedom day after day, little by little, expand that freedom. People who do not will find that it withers until they are literally "being lived." They are acting out scripts written by parents, associates and society.

Freedom is not constituted primarily of privileges but of responsibilities.

What can be heavier in wealth than freedom?

Yesterday the greatest question was decided which ever was debated in America; and a greater perhaps never was, nor will be, decided among men. A resolution was passed without one dissenting colony, "that these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent States.

When we let freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of that old Negro spiritual, Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!

We are living in the excesses of freedom. Just take a look at 42nd Street an Broadway.