Quotes about Freedom
All men are created equal and have the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
— Thomas Jefferson
If you set out to seek freedom, then learn above all things to govern your soul and your senses . . . only through discipline may a man learn to be free.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
The men and women of Afghanistan are building a nation that is free, and proud, and fighting terror - and America is honored to be their friend.
— George W. Bush
People are not to be driven and you can put into a gnat's eye all the souls of the children of men that are driven into heaven by preaching hell-fire.
— Brigham Young
A craving for freedom and independence is generated only in a man still living on hope.
— Albert Camus
Ring in the valiant man and free, The larger heart, the kindlier hand; Ring out the darkness of the land; Ring in the Christ that is to be.
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
There is nothing to take a man's freedom away from him, save other men.
— Ayn Rand
The man who loves his wife above all else on earth gains the freedom and power to pursue other noble, but lesser, loves.
— David Jeremiah
Man seeks, in his manhood, not orders, not laws and peremptory dogmas, but counsel from one who is earnest in goodness and faithful in friendship, making man free.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Man is not fully free unless he is master of himself.
— Epictetus
No man is truly free who is in financial bondage. 'Think what you do when you run in debt', said Benjamin Franklin, 'you give another power over your liberty.'
— Ezra Taft Benson
A war undertaken and brazenly carried on for the perpetual enslavement of colored men, calls logically and loudly for colored men to help suppress it.
— Frederick Douglass