quotations about freedom
No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other fastened about his own neck.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS
speech, Oct. 1883
Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it on to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free.
RONALD REAGAN
address to the annual meeting of the Phoenix Chamber of Commerce, Mar. 30, 1967
Tragic paradox of freedom: the mediocre men who alone make its exercise possible cannot guarantee its duration.
EMIL CIORAN
History & Utopia
The guerdon is priceless;
Up, up every land,
And know the true gladness
Of freedom of soul.
HORATIO STONE
Freedom
For many minutes, for many hours, for a bleak eternity, he lay awake, shivering, reduced to primitive terror, comprehending that he had won freedom, and wondering what he could do with anything so unknown and so embarrassing as freedom.
SINCLAIR LEWIS
Babbitt
What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage.
BRUCE BARTON
It's a Good Old World
Freedom would be meaningless without security in the home and in the streets.
NELSON MANDELA
speech, April 27, 1995