Rick336
07-04-2008, 11:49 AM
Thousands of Americans celebrate today with parades and festivities as fireworks fill the night sky. To commemorate this celebration here are some quotes on freedom:
Freedom has its life in the hearts, the actions, the spirit of men and so it must be daily earned and refreshed - else like a flower cut from its life-giving roots, it will wither and die. ~Dwight D. Eisenhower
Liberty: One of Imagination's most precious possessions. ~Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's
Dictionary
Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide. ~Napoleon Bonaparte
First, guard the freedom of ideas at all costs. Be alert that dictators have always played on the natural human tendency to blame others and to oversimplify. And don't regard yourself as a guardian of freedom unless you respect and preserve the rights of people you disagree with to free, public, unhampered expression. ~Gerard K. O'Neill
Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves. ~Abraham Lincoln
My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular. ~Adlai Stevenson, speech, Detroit, 1952
We on this continent should never forget that men first crossed the Atlantic not to find soil for their ploughs but to secure liberty for their souls. ~Robert J. McCracken
Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it. ~Thomas Paine
In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved. ~Franklin D. Roosevelt
Freedom is the oxygen of the soul. ~Moshe Dayan
No one is free when others are oppressed. ~Author Unknown
Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have. ~Harry Emerson Fosdick
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
The sound of tireless voices is the price we pay for the right to hear the music of our own opinions. ~Adlai Stevenson, speech, New York City, 28 August 1952
We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it. ~William Faulkner
They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. ~Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania, 1759
We have enjoyed so much freedom for so long that we are perhaps in danger of forgetting how much blood it cost to establish the Bill of Rights. ~Felix Frankfurter
No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck. ~Frederick Douglass, speech, Civil Rights Mass Meeting, Washington, D.C., 1883
Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err. ~Mahatma Gandhi
We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home. ~Edward R. Murrow
The contest for ages has been to rescue liberty from the grasp of executive power. ~Daniel Webster
Men fight for liberty and win it with hard knocks. Their children, brought up easy, let it slip away again, poor fools. And their grandchildren are once more slaves. ~D.H. Lawrence, Classical American Literature, 1922
I prefer liberty with danger to peace with slavery. ~Author Unknown
Freedom is the will to be responsible to ourselves. ~Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols, 1888
The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion. ~Edmund Burke
Freedom is never free. ~Author Unknown
Freedom has its life in the hearts, the actions, the spirit of men and so it must be daily earned and refreshed - else like a flower cut from its life-giving roots, it will wither and die. ~Dwight D. Eisenhower
Liberty: One of Imagination's most precious possessions. ~Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's
Dictionary
Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide. ~Napoleon Bonaparte
First, guard the freedom of ideas at all costs. Be alert that dictators have always played on the natural human tendency to blame others and to oversimplify. And don't regard yourself as a guardian of freedom unless you respect and preserve the rights of people you disagree with to free, public, unhampered expression. ~Gerard K. O'Neill
Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves. ~Abraham Lincoln
My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular. ~Adlai Stevenson, speech, Detroit, 1952
We on this continent should never forget that men first crossed the Atlantic not to find soil for their ploughs but to secure liberty for their souls. ~Robert J. McCracken
Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it. ~Thomas Paine
In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved. ~Franklin D. Roosevelt
Freedom is the oxygen of the soul. ~Moshe Dayan
No one is free when others are oppressed. ~Author Unknown
Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have. ~Harry Emerson Fosdick
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
The sound of tireless voices is the price we pay for the right to hear the music of our own opinions. ~Adlai Stevenson, speech, New York City, 28 August 1952
We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it. ~William Faulkner
They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. ~Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania, 1759
We have enjoyed so much freedom for so long that we are perhaps in danger of forgetting how much blood it cost to establish the Bill of Rights. ~Felix Frankfurter
No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck. ~Frederick Douglass, speech, Civil Rights Mass Meeting, Washington, D.C., 1883
Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err. ~Mahatma Gandhi
We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home. ~Edward R. Murrow
The contest for ages has been to rescue liberty from the grasp of executive power. ~Daniel Webster
Men fight for liberty and win it with hard knocks. Their children, brought up easy, let it slip away again, poor fools. And their grandchildren are once more slaves. ~D.H. Lawrence, Classical American Literature, 1922
I prefer liberty with danger to peace with slavery. ~Author Unknown
Freedom is the will to be responsible to ourselves. ~Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols, 1888
The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion. ~Edmund Burke
Freedom is never free. ~Author Unknown