Famous Quotes and Sayings About Freedom and Liberty

It is in vain, sir, to extenuate the matter. Gentlemen may cry, Peace, Peace--but there is no peace. The war is actually begun! The next gale that sweeps from the north will bring to our ears the clash of resounding arms! Our brethren are already in the field! Why stand we here idle? What is it that gentlemen wish? What would they have? Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death! --Patrick Henry March 23,1775

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When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike, you do not wait until he has struck before you crush him. --Franklin D. Roosevelt

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It must be felt that there is no national security but in the nation's humble acknowledged dependence upon God and His overruling providence. --John Adams

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It is impossible rightly to govern the world without God and the Bible. --Unknown (probably not George Washington)

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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 Inaugural Address Washington, D.C. January 20, 1961

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They that can give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty or safety. --Benjamin Franklin

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Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote! --Benjamin Franklin

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Never trouble trouble till trouble troubles you. I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. My sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history, naval architecture, navigation, commerce and agriculture in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry, and porcelain. --John Adams (1735-1826)

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Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go in. --Andrew Jackson (03/15/1767 - 06/08/1845) U.S. President

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"The basis of our political system is the right of the people to make and to alter their constitutions of government."-George Washington's Farewell Address, September 17, 1796

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America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves. -Abraham Lincoln

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There is the National Flag. He must be cold, indeed, who can look upon its folds rippling in the breeze without pride of country. If he be in a foreign land, the flag is companionship and country itself, with all its endearment...The very colors have a language which was recognized by our fathers; white is for purity; red, for valor; blue, for justice. And altogether, bunting, stripes, stars, and colors, blazing in the sky, make the flag of our country, to be cherished by all our hearts, to be upheld by all our hands.-Charles Sumner

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"A thoughtful mind, when it sees a Nation's flag, sees not the flag only, but the Nation itself; and whatever may be its symbols, its insignia, he reads chiefly in the flag the Government, the principles, the truths, the history which belongs to the Nation which belongs to the Nation that sets it forth."-Henry Ward Beecher from The American Flag

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"The things that the flag stands for were created by the experiences of a great people. Everything that it stands for was written by their lives. The flag is the embodiment, not of sentiment, but of history."~Woodrow Wilson

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Four freedoms: The first is freedom of speech and expression - everywhere in the world. The second is freedom of everyone to worship God in his own way, everywhere in the world. The third is freedom from want . . . everywhere in the world. The fourth is freedom from fear . . . anywhere in the world.--Franklin D. Roosevelt U.S. President

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I studied the lives of great men and famous women, and I found that the men and women who got to the top were those who did the jobs they had in hand, with everything they had of energy and enthusiasm. --Henry Truman

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And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you-ask what you can do for your country. --John Fitzgerald Kennedy

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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.

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--John F. Kennedy Inaugural Address Washington, D.C. January 20, 1961

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"I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: 'We hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal'".-Martin Luther King Jr. March on Washington, 1963

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[F]reedom is not an unlimited license, an unlimited choice, or an unlimited opportunity. Freedom is first of all a responsibility before the God from whom we come.--Alan Keyes

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"Freedom itself was attacked this morning by a faceless coward..." -- President George W. Bush, upon learning of the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center (prior to the attack on the Pentagon)

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The architects of this wickedness will find no safe harbor in this world. We will chase our enemies to the furthest corners of this Earth. It must be war without quarter, pursuit without rest, victory without qualification. --Rep. Tom Delay majority whip, US House of Representatives