Freedom Quotes - Page 21

• Easier were it To hurl the rooted mountain from its base, Than force the yoke of slavery upon men Determin'd to be free.

  Robert Southey

  Men, Mountain, Yoke

  Robert Southey (1857). “Joan of Arc, Ballads, Lyrics, and Minor Poems”, p.119

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• Freedom and slavery, the one is the name of virtue, and the other of vice, and both are acts of the will.

  Epictetus

  Names, Vices, Slavery

  Epictetus (2012). “Enchiridion”, p.33, Courier Corporation

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• Slow are the steps of freedom, but her feet turn never backward.

  James Russell Lowell

  Feet, Steps, Turns

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.93

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• Freedom in a democracy is the glory of the state, and, therefore, in a democracy only will the freeman of nature deign to dwell.

  Plato

  Democracy, Glory, States

  Socrates, Plato, Aristotle (1967). “Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study”

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• That is true liberty, which bears a pure and firm breast.

  Quintus Ennius

  Liberty, Bears, Breasts

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• Whatever natural right men may have to freedom and independency, it is manifest that some men have a natural ascendency over others.

  Sir Fulke Greville

  Power, Men, Independence

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• A bird in a cage is not half a bird.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Bird, Half, Cages

  Henry Ward Beecher (1855). “Star papers; or, Experiences of art and nature”, p.35

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• The state is not competent in artistic matters... When the state leaves us free, it will have carried out its duty.

  Gustave Courbet

  Matter, Artistic, States

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• Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have.

  Harry Emerson Fosdick

  4th Of July, Patriotic, Libertarian Party

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• Everyone is entitled to a home where the sun, the stars, open fields, giant trees, and smiling flowers are free to teach an undisturbed lesson of life.

  Jens Jensen

  Life, Smile, Nature

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• Perfect freedom is as necessary to the health and vigor of commerce as it is to the health and vigor of citizenship.

  Patrick Henry

  Perfect, Healthy, Vigor

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• We feel free when we escape - even if it be but from the frying pan to the fire.

  Eric Hoffer

  Fire, Frying Pans, Literature

  Eric Hoffer (1996). “The Passionate State of Mind”

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• The bigger the information media, the less courage and freedom they follow. Bigness means weakness.

  Eric Sevareid

  Courage, Mean, Media

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• We gain freedom when we have paid the full price.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Inspirational, Gains, Paid

  Rabindranath Tagore, Mohit Kumar Ray (2007). “Poems”, p.447, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

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• I am as free as nature first made man,
  Ere the base laws of servitude began,
  When wild in woods the noble savage ran.

  John Dryden

  Men, Law, Savages

  The Conquest of Granada pt. 1, act 1, sc. 1 (1670)

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• It is as hard for the good to suspect evil, as it is for the bad to suspect good.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Evil, Democracy, Suspects

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• He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.

  Thomas Paine

  Pain, Fear, 4th Of July

  Thomas Paine (2016). “THOMAS PAINE Ultimate Collection: Political Works, Philosophical Writings, Speeches, Letters & Biography (Including Common Sense, The Rights of Man & The Age of Reason): The American Crisis, The Constitution of 1795, Declaration of Rights, Agrarian Justice, The Republican Proclamation, Anti-Monarchal Essay, Letters to Thomas Jefferson and George Washington…”, p.1336, e-artnow

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• I had a right to my own political opinions. I am a Southern woman, born with Revolutionary blood in my veins. Freedom of speech and of thought were my birthright, guaranteed, signed and sealed by the blood of our fathers.

  Rose O'Neal Greenhow

  Father, War, Blood

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• How absurd men are! They never use the liberties they have, they demand those they do not have. They have freedom of thought, they demand freedom of speech.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Men, Liberty, Use

  Soren Kierkegaard (1946). “Either/or”

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• The people cannot be all, and always, well informed. The part which is wrong will be discontented, in proportion to the importance of the facts they misconceive. If they remain quiet under such misconceptions, it is lethargy, the forerunner of death to the public liberty. And what country can preserve its liberties, if its rulers are not warned from time to time, that this people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Country, People, Patriotism

  Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoirs, 2: Correspondence and Private Papers”, p.268

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• There is more than one kind of freedom," said Aunt Lydia. "Freedom to and freedom from. In the days of anarchy, it was freedom to. Now you are being given freedom from. Don't underrate it.

  Margaret Atwood

  Aunt, Anarchy, Kind

  Margaret Atwood (1986). “The Handmaid's Tale”, p.24, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• A concept is a brick. It can be used to build a courthouse of reason. Or it can be thrown through the window.

  Gilles Deleuze

  Inspirational, Philosophy, Anarchy

  Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari (2004). “EPZ Thousand Plateaus”, p.13, A&C Black

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• Ask the first man you meet what he means by defending freedom, and he'll tell you privately he means defending the standard of living.

  Martin Niemoller

  Mean, Men, Firsts

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• We will always remember. We will always be proud. We will always be prepared, so we will always be free.

  Ronald Reagan

  Strength, Peace, War

  Ronald Reagan, Michael Reagan (2016). “The Last Best Hope: The Greatest Speeches of Ronald Reagan”, p.183, Humanix Books

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• You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on having both at once.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Wisdom, Peace, Humanity

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.227, Penguin

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