Quotes about Freedom
Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
- Abraham Lincoln
Liberty is often a heavy burden on a man. It involves the necessity for perpetual choice which is the kind of labor men have always dreaded.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
No man shall be compelled to frequent or support any religious worship, place, or ministry whatsoever.
- Thomas Jefferson
The will of man without grace is not free, but is enslaved, and that too with its own consent.
- Martin Luther
The only freedom that man ever has is when he becomes a slave to Jesus Christ.
- RC Sproul
The man who does as he likes is the greatest slave. The man who never does as he likes is God's free man.
- G Campbell Morgan
He who loses an opportunity is like the man who lets a bird fly from his hand, for he will never recover it.
- John of the Cross
It is infinitely easier to suffer in obedience to a human command than to accept suffering as free, responsible men.
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Men may make laws to hinder and fetter the ballot, but men cannot make laws that will bind or retard the growth of manhood.
- Booker T. Washington
The real democratic American idea is, not that every man shall be on a level with every other man, but that every man shall have liberty to be what God made him, without hindrance.
- Henry Ward Beecher
One day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free.
- Ronald Reagan
Ultimate freedom is a man's right to choose his attitude.
- Viktor E. Frankl