Quotes about Freedom

Forgiveness is about empowering yourself, rather than empowering your past.

Individuals cannot be free if there are impediments to reaching their full potential as human beings.

Real liberty is neither found in despotism or the extremes of democracy, but in moderate governments.

What's real freedom? Real freedom is being able to not have my way and still be just as happy as if I did.

America is the greatest country in the world.

We know now that the soul is the body, and the body the soul. They tell us they are different because they want to persuade us that we can keep our souls if we let them make slaves of our bodies.

The ultimate form of censorship is assassination.

The risks of liberty we must let everyone take; but the risks of ignorance and self-helplessness are another matter.

It is quite useless to declare that all men are born free if you deny that they are born good.

How happy is he born and taught That serveth not another's will; Whose armor is his honest thought, And simple truth his only skill! . . . . . . . This man is freed from servile bands Of hope to rise or fear to fall; Lord of himself though not of lands; And having nothing yet hath all. —SIR

Choice is the strongest principle of growth.

Our Founders always wondered about how long it would last. The price of liberty is everlasting vigilance. You've got to be on your guard every minute or you will lose it.