Quotes about freedom
This nation will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave.
Elmer Davis
The truth is, all might be free if they valued freedom and defended it as they ought.
Samuel Adams
Driven from every other corner of the Earth, freedom of thought and the right of private judgment in matters of conscience direct their courses to this happy country as their last asylum.
Samuel Adams
We are so concerned to flatter the majority that we lose sight of how very often it is necessary, in order to preserve freedom for the minority, let alone for the individual, to face that majority down.
William Buckley Jr.
Freedom is not a luxury that we can indulge in when at last we have security and prosperity and enlightenment; it is, rather, antecedent to all of these, for without it we can have neither security nor prosperity nor enlightenment.
Henry Commager
We cannot choose freedom established on a hierarchy of degrees of freedom, on a caste system of equality like military rank. We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.
William Faulkner
A society that puts equality - in the sense of equality of outcome - ahead of freedom will end up with neither equality nor freedom.
Milton Friedman
There have existed, in every age and every country, two distinct orders of men - the lovers of freedom and the devoted advocates of power.
Robert Hayne
Free speech does not live many hours after free industry and free commerce die.
Herbert Hoover
The defense of freedom is finally grounded in an appreciation of its value. No government, no foreign policy, is more important to the defense of freedom than are the writers, teachers, communication specialists, researchers - whose responsibility it is to document, illustrate, and explain the human consequence of freedom and unfreedom.
Jeane Kirkpatrick
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