The meaning of Freedom, Democracy, Independence

Quotes about Freedom, Democracy, and Independence

Perfect freedom is reserved for the man who lives by his own work, and in that work does what he wants to do. – Robin George Collingwood

The moral progression of a people can scarcely begin till they are independent. – James Martineau

For what avail the plough or sail,

Or land or life, if freedom fail? – Ralph Waldo Emerson

Freedom is not merely a word or an abstract theory, but the most effective instrument for advancing the welfare of man. – John F. Kennedy

Freedom from fear and injustice and oppression will be ours only in the measure that men who value such freedom are ready to sustain its possession. – Dwight D. Eisenhower

Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must, like men, undergo the fatigues of supporting it. – Thomas Paine

The greatest glory of a free-born people,

Is to transmit that freedom to their children. – William Havard

The only freedom which deserves the name is that of pursuing our own good in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive other of theirs, or impede their efforts to obtain it. – John Stuart Mill

We hold the view that the people come first, not the government. – John F. Kennedy

Responsibility was the price every man must pay for freedom. It was to be had on no other terms. – Edith Hamilton

A man’s worst difficulties begin when he is able to do as he likes. – Thomas Henry Huxley

Those who deny freedom to others deserves it not for themselves; and under a just God cannot long retain it. – Abraham Lincoln

The cause of freedom is the cause of God. – William Lisle Bowles

There is only one cure for the evils which newly acquired freedom produces, and that is MORE freedom. – Thomas Macaulay

No one can be perfectly free till all are free. – Adlai E. Stevenson

Yet we can maintain a free society only if we recognize that is a free society, no one can win all the time, and no one is right all the time. – Richard M. Nixon

I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it. – Voltaire

The measure of democracy is the measure of the freedom of its humblest citizens. – John Galsworthy

Man is born free—and everywhere he is in irons. – Jean Jacques Rousseau

The most un-free souls go west and shout of freedom; men are freest when they are most unconscious of freedom. The shout is a rattling of chains. – D.H. Lawrence

A man can be free even within prison walls; freedom is something spiritual. Whoever has once had it, can never lose it. There are some people who are never free outside a prison. – Bertold Brecht

Who then is free? The wise man who is lord over himself; Whom neither poverty nor death, nor chains alarm, strong to withstand his passions and despise honors, and who is completely finished and founded off in himself. – Horace

A man is free who is not master of himself. – Epictetus

I am as free as nature first made man.

Ere the base laws of servitude began,

When wild in the woods the noble savage ran. – John Dryden

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