Freedom Quotes - Posts Your Favorites

What about one of the most famous of all?

Give me liberty or give me death!

'i wanna be free' the monkees

Love it - or Leave it

Frankly, I always thought this saying was strictly for (insert expletive) right-wing war mongers...a caveat that left no room for discourse. "My way - or the Highway". Never liked it.

Sometimes people are compelled to disagree with the system...it does not neccessarily make them less "patriotic" because they do...sometimes it is quite the opposite.

The one thing curiously we have in this country, is the right to agree to disagree...

Edward R. Murrow had a thought on this:

"If we confuse dissent with disloyalty — if we deny the right of the individual to be wrong, unpopular, eccentric or unorthodox — if we deny the essence of racial equality then hundreds of millions in Asia and Africa who are shopping about for a new allegiance will conclude that we are concerned to defend a myth and our present privileged status. Every act that denies or limits the freedom of the individual in this country costs us the ... confidence of men and women who aspire to that freedom and independence of which we speak and for which our ancestors fought."

(imo)

3M

Quotes are very inspiring!

Here is a personal favorite...

"When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic."

Yes, I like that one. Very appropriate for today

Doesn't that just make you happy, warm, fuzzy and patriotic inside?

Is that the same Bulwer-Lytton who wrote "It was a dark and stormy night"?

That James Madison quote carries a lot of weight. It has always been my thought that subversion and manipulation of a system is much more effective than violent revolution to effect change...
assimilation, not annihilation.

You reminded me of another favorite quote:

Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
John F. Kennedy

What about my quote?

Kind of goes against the "wealth without work or intelligence" that people like to hear these days, though, doesn't it?

But man-o-man, it just makes you want to hold your hand over your heart and look up at the flag, doesn't it?

He Tangata, He Tangata, He Tangata.

What is the most important thing?

It is people, it is people, it is people.

It is a Māori proverb, which are called called ‘whakataukī’ or ‘pepeha’

he tangata = people

mine is, "Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes."

"Freedom don't come free" - Toby Keith

"Patriotism is easy to understand in America; it means looking out for yourself by looking out for your country."

Coolidge, Calvin

"It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them."
Mark Twain
:-)

"I speak to my people, and I speak in my people's name to the masters of my people.

I say to my people that they are holy, that they are august, despite their chains. That they are greater than those that hold them, and stronger and purer. That they have but need of courage, and to call on the name of their God, God the unforgetting, the dear God that loves the peoples for whom He died naked, suffering shame.

And I say to my people's masters: Beware. Beware of the thing that is coming. Beware of the risen people, who shall take what ye would not give. Did ye think to conquer the people, or that law is stronger than life and than men's desire to be free?"

I've always quite liked this too (not least of all because it marked my first and only foray into the movies; both I and my brother are in the crowd, and we had a great time beating the bejesus out of the police ):

Freedom's just another word for nothing left to loose
Nothing, I mean nothing honey if it ain't free, no no

Ah Kim - ya beat me tuit.

"Ko te atakau o te whenua i riro i a te Kuini, ko te tinana o te whenua waiho ki nga Maori".

"Only the shadow of the land goes to the Queen but the substance remains with us".

Nopera Panakareo. February 1840

"Freedom isn't free."
Team America: World Police

Great thread. Leant some information the perception of ownership

I have a quote...

"More you share, more you get"

If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter. -George Washington

"We are all motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is, the more he is inspired to glory."

"Free at Last, Free at Last, Good God Almighty, I am Free at Last!"

Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.
-Martin Luther King, Jr.

I like this one.

"Discipline without freedom is tyranny." Cullen Hightower

I think everyone's favorite at one time or another has been "School's out for the summer!" Alice Cooper.

"Freebird' by Lynyrd Skynyrd would rank up there but it's not a quote.

Follow Your Bliss
- Joseph Campbell

Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. And so we must straighten our backs and work for our freedom. A man can't ride you unless your back is bent.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

The sweltering summer of the Negro's legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same.
Ronald Reagan

All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
Winston Churchill

Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
Abraham Lincoln

In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free - honorable alike in what we give and what we preserve. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope of earth.
Abraham Lincoln

It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.
Mark Twain

Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.
Thomas Jefferson

If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.
George Washington


Freedom prospers when religion is vibrant and the rule of law under God is acknowledged.
Ronald Reagan

I am involved in a freedom ride protesting the loss of the minority rights belonging to the few remaining earthbound stars. All we demanded was our right to twinkle.
Marilyn Monroe

Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.
Viktor E. Frankl

Freedom is never dear at any price. It is the breath of life. What would a man not pay for living?
Mahatma Gandhi

Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err.
Mahatma Gandhi

Violent means will give violent freedom. That would be a menace to the world and to India herself.
Mahatma Gandhi

Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.
John F. Kennedy

The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission.
John F. Kennedy

Israel was not created in order to disappear - Israel will endure and flourish. It is the child of hope and the home of the brave. It can neither be broken by adversity nor demoralized by success. It carries the shield of democracy and it honors the sword of freedom.
John F. Kennedy

In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I do not shrink from this responsibility - I welcome it.
John F. Kennedy

"People never give up their liberties but under some delusion."

Edmund Burke, 1784

"I am what I am"

Forgot where I heard this quote but I think it was from "Baby Huey", that gigantic super awasome duck.

Life is what we make it

The cause of Freedom is the cause of God!

Freedom is from within.
Frank Lloyd Wright

That's really very true

"Law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual."

--Thomas Jefferson to Isaac H. Tiffany, 1819

"The policy of the American government is to leave their citizens free, neither restraining nor aiding them in their pursuits."

--Thomas Jefferson to M. L'Hommande, 1787

Those are all great quotes! Here are a few more.

“The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.” Gloria Steinem

“Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.” Mahatma Gandhi

“Lock up your libraries if you like, but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.” Virginia Woolf

“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” Benjamin Franklin

i hope your chook has emus and they kick your dunny door down - australian proverb

“Entrepreneur’s Credo ―

I do not choose to be a common man,
It is my right to be uncommon … if I can,
I seek opportunity … not security.
I do not wish to be a kept citizen.
Humbled and dulled by having the
State look after me.
I want to take the calculated risk;
To dream and to build.
To fail and to succeed.
I refuse to barter incentive for a dole;
I prefer the challenges of life
To the guaranteed existence;
The thrill of fulfillment
To the stale calm of Utopia.
I will not trade freedom for beneficence
Nor my dignity for a handout
I will never cower before any master
Nor bend to any threat.
It is my heritage to stand erect.
Proud and unafraid;
To think and act for myself,
To enjoy the benefit of my creations
And to face the world boldly and say:
This, with God’s help, I have done!
All this is what it means
To be an Entrepreneur.”

― Thomas Paine, Common Sense

Success may be impossible if you don't give yourself the freedom to fail.
- Dennis Gaskill

"Live simply, so other people can simply live."

― Mother Teresa

To me, I believe this involves freedom. Especially in the current world economic mess we have right now. You would think if there weren't such a thing as billionaires or millionaires, a bit of the wealth could be spread around a bit more. I know people will disagree, but when I first read this, I thought wouldn't it be great. But then we have to wake up and smell the coffee.

i like your fav quotes ..thank u for sharing

i like your fav quotes ..thank u for sharing

"Some in clandestine companies combine;
Erect new stocks to trade beyond the line;
With air and empty names beguile the town,
And raise new credits first, then cry 'em down;
Divide the empty nothing into shares,
And set the crowd together by the ears." ~ Defoe

Truth will set you free? That's the only one I know.

"Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose" - Janis Joplin

Love that one.

Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

What is objectionable, what is dangerous about extremists is not that they are extreme, but that they are intolerant. The evil is not what they say about their cause, but what they say about their opponents.

Robert F. Kennedy

It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.

Voltaire

Those who suppress freedom always do so in the name of law and order.

John V. Lindsay
U.S. Congressman, Mayor of New York City

great post thanks!!!

The deterioration of every government begins with the decay of the principles on which it was founded
~Charles-Louis de Secondat

Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule - and both commonly succeed, and are right.H. L. Mencken
US editor (1880 - 1956)