Quotes of Independence - somelinesforyou

“ Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves, and, under a just God, cannot long retain it. ”

- Abraham Lincoln

“ Everything can be taken from a man or a woman but one thing: the last of human freedoms to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way. ”

- Viktor E. Frankl

“ For what avail the plough or sail, Or land or life, if freedom fail? ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it. ”

- Thomas Paine

“ I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death. ”

- Patrick Henry

“ Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties. ”

- John Milton

“ I know not what others may choose but, as for me, give me liberty or give me death. ”

- Patrick Henry

“ Liberty is the right to do what I like; license, the right to do what you like. ”

- Bertrand Russell

“ True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made. ”

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

“ Freedom is not an ideal, it is not even a protection, if it means nothing more than freedom to stagnate, to live without dreams, to have no greater aim than a second car and another television set. ”

- Adlai E. Stevenson

“ The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom — these are the pillars of society. ”

- Henry Jacobsen

“ Every tyrant who has lived has believed in freedom — for himself. ”

- Elbert Hubbard

“ Those who won our independence… valued liberty as an end and as a means. They believed liberty to be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty. ”

- Justice Louis D. Brandeis

“ Wealth is a tool of freedom, but the pursuit of wealth is the way to slavery. ”

- Frank Herbert

“ Freedom of the press is not an end in itself but a means to the end of achieving a free society. ”

- Felix Frankfurter

“ People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use. ”

- Soren Kierkegaard

“ The elective system offered a bewildering freedom of choice, leaving some graduates with the impression that they had nibbled at dozens of canapes of knowledge and never had their fill. ”

- Ted Morgan

“ But the freedom that they fought for, and the country grand they wrought for, Is their monument to-day, and for aye. ”

- Thomas Dunn English

“ The last of the human freedoms: to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way. ”

- Viktor Frankl

“ Yet, Freedom! Yet thy banner, torn, but flying, streams like the thunderstorm against the wind. ”

- Lord Byron

“ The people never give up their liberties, but under some delusion. ”

- Edmund Burke

“ Proclaim liberty throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof. ”

- Bible

“ The tree of liberty grows only when watered by the blood of tyrants. ”

- Bertrand Barere de Vieuzac

“ There can be no liberty that isn't earned. ”

- Robert R. Young

“ The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time. ”

- 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. ”

- Mark Twain

“ Sept. 11 represented a terrorist attack aimed at destroying everything that America stands for our freedoms and our way of life. ”

- John Whitehead

“ I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it. ”

- Thomas Jefferson

“ The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves. We cannot force love. ”

- William Hazlitt

“ The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal — well-meaning but without understanding. ”

- Justice Louis D. Brandeis
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