Freedom Quotes - Page 14

• We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom. And now, as in no other age, we seek it because we have been warned, by the power of modern weapons, that peace may be the only climate possible for human life itself.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Peace, War, Knowing

  Second Inaugural Address, en.wikisource.org. January 21, 1957.

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  Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.

  John Adams

  Bible, God, Religious

  John Adams, Charles Francis Adams (1854). “Works: with a life of the author”, p.229

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• Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Life, Strong, Anger

  Speech to 140th Indiana regiment, 17 Mar. 1865

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• Once a man has tasted freedom he will never be content to be a slave.

  Walt Disney

  Men, Slave, Be A Slave

  Walt Disney's radio address at the "Our American Culture" broadcast during an intermission of the Metropolitan Opera, March 1, 1941.

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• Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Stupid, Mind, Liberty

  Henry David Thoreau, Richard Dillman (1987). “Thoreau's comments on the art of writing”

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• [Oppose] with manly firmness [any] invasions on the rights of the people.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Rights, People, Liberty

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• I never would have agreed to the formulation of the Central Intelligence Agency back in forty-seven, if I had known it would become the American Gestapo.

  Harry S. Truman

  Agency, Historical, Gestapo

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• The oppression of any people for opinion's sake has rarely had any other effect than to fix those opinions deeper, and render them more important.

  Hosea Ballou

  People, Important, Sake

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• Everywhere the human soul stands between a hemisphere of light and another of darkness on the confines of two everlasting empires, - Necessity and Free Will.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Light, Two, Soul

  "Essays on Goethe (Goethe's Works)". Book by Thomas Carlyle, 1888.

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• Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty.

  Frank Herbert

  Discipline, History, Desire

  Frank Herbert (1985). “Chapterhouse: Dune”, Putnam Publishing Group

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• When all government ...in little as in great things... shall be drawn to Washington as the center of all power; it will render powerless the checks provided of one government on another, and will become as venal and oppressive as the government from which we separated.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Truth, Knowledge, Government

  Thomas Jefferson, Henry Augustine Washington (1854). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence, cont”, p.216

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• Void of freedom, what would virtue be?

  Alphonse de Lamartine

  Void, Virtue

  Alphonse de Lamartine (1849). “A biographical sketch: the poetical meditations : and, poetical and religious harmonies”, p.111

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• Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.

  Alan Watts

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Being Alone

  Alan W. Watts (2011). “The Way of Zen”, p.157, Vintage

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• We do not believe that in this country, freedom is reserved for the lucky, or happiness for the few.

  Barack Obama

  Happiness, Happy, Country

  President Obama's Inaugural Address, www.foxnews.com. January 21, 2013.

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• Let freedom never perish in your hands.

  Joseph Addison

  4th Of July, Hands, Happy Independence Day

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• Man is born free and everywhere he is in chains.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Inspirational, Motivational, Men

  Du Contrat Social bk. 1, ch. 1 (1762)

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• You have freedom when you're easy in your harness.

  Robert Frost

  Inspiration, 4th Of July, Easy

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• Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Military, 4th Of July, Individuality

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• Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally destructive.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Order, Liberty, Destructive

  Theodore Roosevelt, Paul H. Jeffers (1998). “The Bully Pulpit: A Teddy Roosevelt Book of Quotations”, p.84, Taylor Trade Publications

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• Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.

  George Orwell

  Life, Happiness, Truth

  Nineteen Eighty-Four pt. 1, ch. 7 (1949) See Orwell 19

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• A politician is an animal which can sit on a fence and yet keep both ears to the ground.

  H. L. Mencken

  Animal, Democracy, Ears

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• The recovery of freedom is so splendid a thing that we must not shun even death when seeking to recover it.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Recovery, Splendid, Seeking

  Marcus Tullius Cicero (1856). “Select Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero”, p.439

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• Freedom needs all her poets; it is they
  Who give her aspirations wings,
  And to the wiser law of music sway
  Her wild imaginings.

  James Russell Lowell

  Law, Wings, Giving

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.107

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• If there is any principle of the Constitution that more imperatively calls for attachment than any other it is the principle of free thought, not free thought for those who agree with us but freedom for the thought that we hate.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Hate, Attachment, Libertarian

  United States v. Schwimmer (dissenting opinion) (1929)

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• I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments by those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.

  James Madison

  Believe, Power, People

  Speech at Virginia Convention, 5 June 1788

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