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- Every man
- On Freedom's ramparts must a warder be,
- To warn of danger when the foe appears;
- To meet the onset when the foe assaults.
- Else--vain our hopes, and else the temple grand,
- Of all our rights, and birth-right liberties,
- Ere long will fall, and crumble in the dust,
- A ruin, more abject and dire than Rome
- Or Carthage was.
ANDREW DOWNING, "A Picture"
God's work is freedom. Freedom is dear to his heart. He wishes to make man's will free, and at the same time wishes it to be pure, majestic, and holy.
E. H. CHAPIN, Living Words
Once a man has tasted freedom, he will never be content to be a slave.
WALT DISNEY, radio address, Mar. 1, 1941
The unity of all who dwell in freedom is their only sure defense.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER, Second Inaugural Address, Jan. 21, 1957
No one is more of a slave than he who thinks himself free without being so.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE, The Maxims and Reflections of Goethe
It is the mind of man alone that is the cause of his bondage or freedom.
CHANAKYA, Vridda-Chanakya
Freedom doesn't mean aimlessness. We can't just sleepwalk through life.... Freedom demands structure.
GARRISON KEILLOR, Liberty: A Novel of Lake Wobegon
May the light of freedom, coming to all darkened lands, flame brightly--until at last the darkness is no more.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER, Second Inaugural Address, Jan. 21, 1957
Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it.
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS, attributed, The Rebirth of a Nation
I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power, than by violent and sudden usurpations.
JAMES MADISON, speech at the Virginia Convention to ratify the Federal Constitution, Jun. 6, 1788
- I was a dweller amid shadows grim:
- Till FREEDOM touched my yearning eyes, and lo!
- Life in a shining circle, rounding rose,
- As heaven on heaven goes up the jewell'd night.
- New floods of passionate life swirl'd at my heart,
- Like Ocean-surges rolling round the world:
- And FREEDOM was my glittering Bride.
GERALD MASSEY, "To My Wife"
Freedom is an elusive concept. Some men hold themselves prisoner even when they have the power to do as they please and go where they choose, while others are free in their hearts, even as shackles restrain them.
BRIAN HERBERT & KEVIN J. ANDERSON, Dune: House Harkonnen
Un-American activity cannot be prevented or routed out by employing un-American methods; to preserve freedom we must use the tools that freedom provides.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER, The White House Years
- Freedom has a scent
- Like the top of a new born baby's head
The more freedom you give people to do good, the more freedom they have to do bad as well.
TAD WILLIAMS, Otherland: City of Golden Shadow
- Step out of your cage
- And onto the stage
- It's time to start
- Playing your part
- Freedom awaits
- Open the gates
- Open your mind
- Freedom's a state
DEPECHE MODE, "Freestate"
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