Quotes about Freedom
The father of lies can block your effectiveness as a Christian if he can deceive you into believing that you are nothing but a product of your past—subject to sin, prone to failure, and controlled by your habits.
— Neil Anderson
The universe moves in the direction of Liberty.
— Michael Novak
The Ten Commandments can be seen as given in order to preserve the rights and freedoms gained by the exodus, by translating them into responsibilities.
— Christopher Wright
Things like this don't happen back in Libertyville, Illinois. You don't get lost in the woods behind your house. You don't get trapped inside a fortress-like wall ten feet tall.
— Travis Thrasher
The free school is the promoter of that intelligence which is to preserve us as a free nation. If we are to have another contest in the near future of our national existence, I predict that the dividing line will not be Mason and Dixon's, but between patriotism and intelligence on the one side—and superstition, ambition, and ignorance on the other.
— Ulysses S. Grant
No political party can or ought to exist when one of its corner-stones is opposition to freedom of thought and to the right to worship God "according to the dictate of one's own conscience," or according to the creed of any religious denomination whatever. Nevertheless, if a sect sets up its laws as binding above the State laws, wherever the two come in conflict this claim must be resisted and suppressed at whatever cost.
— Ulysses S. Grant
The Bible is the anchor of our liberties.
— Ulysses S. Grant
No political party can or ought to exist when one of its cornerstones is opposition to freedom of thought and to the right to worship God "according to the dictate of one's own conscience," or according to the creed of any religious denomination whatever.
— Ulysses S. Grant
If one could only get out of a grief as one gets out of a city!
— Victor Hugo
Liberation is not deliverance. One gets free from the galleys, but not from the sentence.
— Victor Hugo
It was said of him that he had once been for a short time in Bedlam; they had done him the honour to take him for a madman, but had set him free on discovering that he was only a poet. This story was probably not true; we have all to submit to some such legend about us.
— Victor Hugo
Release is not the same as liberation. You get out of jail, all right, but you never stop being condemned.
— Victor Hugo