As
we commemorate the adoption of the Declaration of Independence, and our
independence from Great Britain, here are some great quotes from great
people about FREEDOM.
“They who can give up
essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty
nor safety.” Benjamin Franklin
“Those who deny freedom to
others deserve it not for themselves.” Abraham Lincoln
“When the people fear the
government there is tyranny, when the government fears the people there is
liberty.” John Basil Barnhill
“If liberty means anything
at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.”
George Orwell
“My definition of a free
society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.” Adlai Stevenson
“For to be free is not merely to cast off
one’s chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of
others.” Nelson Mandela
“Liberty has never come from the
government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of
liberty is a history of resistance.” Woodrow Wilson
“Certainly one of the chief guarantees of
freedom under any government, no matter how popular and respected, is the right
of citizens to keep and bear arms.” Hubert H. Humphrey
“Liberty means responsibility. That is why
most men dread it.” George Bernard Shaw
“The inherent vice of capitalism
is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the
equal sharing of miseries.” Winston Churchill
“When plunder has
become a way of life for a group of people living together in society, they
create for themselves in the course of time a legal system that authorizes it,
and a moral code that glorifies it.” Frédéric Bastiat
“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.” Ronald
Reagan
“None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the
rest love not freedom, but license.” John
Milton
“Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not
for themselves.” Abraham Lincoln
“Freedom can be
preserved only if it is treated as a supreme principle which must not be
sacrificed for particular advantages.” Freidrich
Hayek
“The truth shall
make you free.” Jesus
“To know how to
free oneself is nothing; the arduous thing is to know what to do with one's
freedom.” Andre Gide
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