Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quote Share via Email Print this Page [781-800] of 1320 Freedom quotesFreedom QuotesFreedom Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Our progress in degeneracy appears to me to be pretty rapid. As a nation we began by declaring that "all men are created equal." When the Know-Nothings get control, it will read "all men are created equal, except Negroes and foreigners and Catholics." When it comes to this, I shall prefer emigrating to some country where they make no pretense of loving liberty -- to Russia, for instance, where despotism can be taken pure, and without the base alloy hypocrisy.~ Abraham Lincoln Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.~ Abraham Lincoln We have forgotten the gracious hand which has preserved us in peace and multiplied and enriched and strengthened us, and have vainly imagined in the deceitfulness of our hearts that all these blessings were produced by some superior wisdom and virtue of our own. Intoxicated with unbroken success, we have become too self sufficient to feel the necessity of redeeming and preserving Grace, too proud to pray to the God that made us.~ Abraham Lincoln I have never had a feeling, politically, that did not spring from ... the Declaration of Independence ... that all should have an equal chance. This is the sentiment embodied in the Declaration of Independence ... I would rather be assassinated on this spot than surrender it.~ Abraham Lincoln That this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.~ Abraham Lincoln As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.~ Abraham Lincoln A majority held in restraint by constitutional checks and limitations, and always changing easily with deliberate changes of popular opinions and sentiments, is the only true sovereign of a free people. Whoever rejects it does of necessity fly to anarchy or to despotism.~ Abraham Lincoln Among free men there can be no successful appeal from the ballot to the bullet.~ Abraham Lincoln As our case is new, so we must think anew, and act anew. We must disenthrall ourselves, and then we shall save our country.~ Abraham Lincoln I intend no modification of my oft-expressed wish that all men everywhere could be free.~ Abraham Lincoln Him that I love, I wish to be free -- even from me.~ Anne Morrow Lindbergh Those who suppress freedom always do so in the name of law and order.~ John V. Lindsay In a free society the state does not administer the affairs of men. It administers justice among men who conduct their own affairs.~ Walter Lippmann Private property was the original source of freedom. It still is its main bulwark.~ Walter Lippmann The American’s conviction that he must be able to look any man in the eye and tell him to go to hell is the very essence of the free man’s way of life.~ Walter Lippmann When men are brought face to face with their opponents, forced to listen and learn and mend their ideas, they cease to be children and savages and begin to live like civilized men. Then only is freedom a reality, when men may voice their opinions because they must examine their opinions.~ Walter Lippmann While the right to talk may be the beginning of freedom, the necessity of listening is what makes the right important.~ Walter Lippmann The unexamined life, said Socrates, is unfit to be lived by man. This is the virtue of liberty, and the ground on which we may justify our belief in it, that it tolerates error in order to serve truth.~ Walter Lippmann Whereas each man claims his freedom as a matter of right, the freedom he accords to other men is a matter of toleration.~ Walter Lippmann In a democracy, the opposition is not only tolerated as constitutional, but must be maintained because it is indispensable.~ Walter Lippmann Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print