Top Inspiring Freedom Quotes to Live By - page 14
A nation may lose its liberties in a day and not miss them in a century.
Baron de Montesquieu
Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.
Heaven's blessing must attend all, and freedom must soon be given to the pining millions under a ruthless bondage.
No society can possibly be built on a denial of individual freedom.
Nobody who says, ‘I told you so’ has ever been, or will ever be, a hero.
The extinction of race consciousness as between Muslims is one of the outstanding achievements of Islam, and in the contemporary world there is, as it happens, a crying need for the propagation of this Islamic virtue.
Arnold J. Toynbee
From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back. That is the point that must be reached.
Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared.
Though we love goodness and not stealing, yet also we love freedom and not preaching.
As a woman, you don't have really much freedom of choice in the Middle East - very often, by the time they are 13 or 14, girls get married.
Rula Jebreal
Men of ideas vanish when freedom vanishes.
Carl Sandburg
American liberty is premised on the accountability of free men and women for what they have done, not for what they may do.
John Newman
Democracy does not race, it reaches the finish slowly but surely.
Freedom begins between the ears.
To freemen, threats are impotent.
[Lat., Nulla enim minantis auctoritas apud liberos est.]
We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.
William Faulkner
Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.
Man is free; yet we must not suppose that he is at liberty to do everything he pleases, for he becomes a slave the moment he allows his actions to be ruled by passion.
Giacomo Casanova