Quotes about Freedom
Darkness is a prison from which only light escapes.
- Matshona Dhliwayo
Let us give ourselves indiscriminately to everything our passions suggest, and we will always be happy…Conscience is not the voice of Nature but only the voice of prejudice.
- Marquis de Sade
It is my pleasure that my children are free and happy, and unrestrained by parental tyranny. Love is the chain whereby to bind a child to its parents.
- Abraham Lincoln
There is no negro problem. The problem is whether the American people have loyalty enough, honor enough, patriotism enough, to live up to their own constitution
- Frederick Douglass
Force, violence, pressure, or compulsion with a view to conformity, are both uncivilized and undemocratic
- Mahatma Gandhi
Lethargy is the forerunner of death to the public liberty.
- Thomas Jefferson
Never be ashamed of your patriotism.
- H Jackson Brown, Jr.
You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind.
- Mahatma Gandhi
We will not waver, we will not tire, we will not falter, and we will not fail. Peace and freedom will prevail.
- George W. Bush
I have the audacity to believe that peoples everywhere can have three meals a day for their bodies, education and culture for their minds, and dignity, equality and freedom for their spirits.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Being relaxed, at peace with yourself, confident, emotionally neutral loose, and free-floating - these are the keys to successful performance in almost everything.
- Wayne Dyer
Everything is a gift from God: it is only by recognizing this crucial dependence on the Creator that we will find freedom and peace.
- Pope Benedict XVI