Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quote Share via Email Print this Page [381-400] of 1320 Freedom quotesFreedom QuotesFreedom Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes So long as we govern our nation by the letter and spirit of the Bill of Rights, we can be sure that our nation will grow in strength and wisdom and freedom.~ Dwight D. Eisenhower We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom.~ Dwight D. Eisenhower It is an ancient truth that freedom cannot be legislated into existence, so it is no less obvious that freedom cannot be censored into existence. And any who act as if freedom’s defenses are found in suppression and suspicion and fear confess a doctrine that is alien to America.~ Dwight D. Eisenhower The free world must now prove itself worthy of its own past.~ Dwight D. Eisenhower The sea, as well as the air, is a free and common thing to all; and a particular nation cannot pretend to have the right to the exclusion of all others, without violating the rights of nature and public usage.~ Elizabeth I Everything is backwards; everything is upside down. Doctors destroy health, lawyers destroy justice, universities destroy knowledge, governments destroy freedom, the major media destroy information, and religions destroy spirituality.~ Michael Ellner That which we call sin in others is experiment for us.~ Ralph Waldo Emerson We grant no dukedoms to the few, We hold like rights and shall; Equal on Sunday in the pew, On Monday in the mall. For what avail the plough or sail, Or land, or life, if freedom fail?~ Ralph Waldo Emerson For what avail the plough or sail, Or land or life, if freedom fail?~ Ralph Waldo Emerson Man exists for his own sake and not to add a laborer to the State.~ Ralph Waldo Emerson In dealing with the State, we ought to remember that its institutions are not aboriginal, though they existed before we were born; that they are not superior to the citizen; that every one of them was once the act of a single man; every law and usage was a man's expedient to meet a particular case; that they all are imitable, all alterable; we may make as good; we may make better.~ Ralph Waldo Emerson That is true liberty, which bears a pure and firm breast.~ Quintus Ennius He hath freedom whoso beareth a clean and constant heart within.~ Quintus Ennius Freedom and slavery, the one is the name of virtue, and the other of vice, and both are acts of the will.~ Epictetus He is free who lives as he wishes to live; who is neither subject to compulsion nor to hindrance, nor to force; whose movements to action are not impeded, whose desires attain their purpose, and who does not fall into that which he would avoid.~ Epictetus No one is free who is not master of himself.~ Epictetus We must not believe the many, who say that only free people ought to be educated, but we should rather believe the philosophers who say that only the educated are free.~ Epictetus Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.~ Epictetus Only the educated are free.~ Epictetus Freedom is the greatest fruit of self-sufficiency.~ Epicurus Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print