Quote Of The Day Archives: Freedom

Freedom Archives

We stand for freedom. That is our conviction for ourselves; that is our only commitment to others. -- John F. Kennedy

If a nation expects to be ignorant and free in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be. --Thomas Jefferson

So this is how liberty dies. With thunderous applause. -- George Lucas

For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others. -- Nelson Mandela

Freedom is that instant between when someone tells you to do something and when you decide how to respond. -- Dr. Jeffrey Borenstein

We walk by faith, not by sight. -- II Cor 5:07

To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive. -- Robert Louis Stevenson

Man is born free, but everywhere he is in chains. -- Jean Jacques Rousseau

Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart -- Confucius

One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time. -- Andre Gide

Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty. -- John F. Kennedy

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

Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it. -- Thomas Paine

We look forward to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms. . . . freedom of speech and expression . . . freedom of every person to worship God in his own way . . . freedom from want . . . freedom from fear. -- Franklin Delano Roosevelt

There is one step towards freedom all men and women can always take: deny our nothingness through the strength of our own experience, our faith and, if all else deserts us, our imagination. Given a chance, the last one never fails. -- Bill Purdin

I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty or give me death.
-- Patrick Henry

We are called the nation of inventors. And we are. We could still claim that title and wear its loftiest honors if we had stopped with the first thing we ever invented, which was human liberty. -- Mark Twain

A man can't ride your back unless it's bent. -- Martin Luther King Jr.

Every minute you are thinking of evil, you might have been thinking of good instead. Refuse to pander to a morbid interest in your own misdeeds. Pick yourself up, be sorry,
shake yourself, and go on again. -- Evelyn Underhill

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