Quotes about Freedom
History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
If I am truly free, who can tell me how much of my freedom I can have today?
- Fannie Lou Hamer
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
When you abandon freedom to achieve security, you lose both and deserve neither.
- Thomas Jefferson
It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.
- Mark Twain
We have freedom to do good or evil; yet to make choice of evil, is not to use, but to abuse our freedom.
- Francis de Sales
Of course, there are dangers in religious freedom and freedom of opinion. But to deny these rights is worse than dangerous, it is absolutely fatal to liberty.
- Harry S. Truman
Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another.
- Toni Morrison
We know too well that our freedom is incomplete without the freedom of the Palestinians.
- Nelson Mandela
Let us remember that revolutions do not always establish freedom.
- Millard Fillmore
Tame birds sing of freedom. Wild birds fly.
- John Lennon
True freedom from fear consists of totally resigning one's life into the hands of the Lord.
- David Wilkerson