Quotes about Liberty
I will give Mr. Freeland the credit of being the best master I ever had, till I became my own master.
- Frederick Douglass
Who would be free themselves must strike the blow...I urge you to fly to arms and smite to death the power that would bury the Government and your liberty in the same hopeless grave. This is your golden opportunity.
- Frederick Douglass
Education means emancipation. It means light and liberty. It means the uplifting of the soul of man into the glorious light of truth, the light by which men can only be made free.
- Frederick Douglass
Once you learn to read, you'll be forever free.
- Frederick Douglass
And I remember that God reigns in eternity, and that whatever delays, whatever disappointments and discouragements may come, truth, justice, liberty, and humanity will ultimately prevail.
- Frederick Douglass
Once you learn to read, you will forever be free.
- Frederick Douglass
One you learn to READ, you will be forever free
- Frederick Douglass
It remains now to be seen whether we have the needed courage to have that cause entirely removed from the Republic.
- Frederick Douglass
Once you learn to read, you'll be forever free. Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.
- Frederick Douglass
The shallow consider liberty a release from all law, from every constraint. The wise man sees in it, on the contrary, the potent Law of Laws.
- Walt Whitman
Freedom is the right to live as we wish.
- Epictetus
Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.
- John F. Kennedy