Quotations by Subject
Freedom Page 10 of 15
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The things required for prosperous labor, prosperous manufactures and prosperous commerce are three. First, liberty; second, liberty; third, liberty. |
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The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure. |
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The true felicity of life is to be free from perturbations; to understand our duties towards God and man; to enjoy the present without any serious dependence upon the future. Not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears, but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is abundantly sufficient; for he that is so, wants nothing. ... Tranquillity is a certain equality of mind, which no condition or fortune can either exalt or depress." |
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The truth is, all might be free if thy valued freedom and defended it as they ought. |
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The virtue of a free man is seen to be as great in avoiding danger as in overcoming it. ...Flight at the proper time, just as well as fighting, is to be reckoned, therefore, as showing strength of mind in a man who is free;" |
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The wildest colts make the best horses. |
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The world has never had a good definition of the word liberty. |
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There are times in the lives of all people when freedom is the twin of duty, sacrifice the twin of happiness, and when courage-- parent of fortitude, endurance, determination-- is the first virtue. |
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There can be no real freedom without the freedom to fail. |
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There is no freedom unless there is a firm and powerful will to maintain acknowledged order. |
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There is no retreat but in submission and slavery! Our chains are forged. Their clanking may be heard on the plains of Boston. The war is inevitable-- and let it come. |
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There must be no barriers to freedom of inquiry. There is no place for dogma in science. The scientist is free, and must be free to ask any question, to doubt any assertion, to seek for any evidence, to correct any errors. |
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These are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service to their country, but he that stands it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. |
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They that can give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety. |
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Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves, and, under a just God, cannot long retain it. |
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Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must... undergo the fatigue of supporting it. |
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Thus the infant believes that it is by free will that it seeks the breast." |
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Tis plain that there is not in nature a point of stability to be found: every thing either ascends or declines: when wars are ended abroad, sedition begins at home; and when men are freed from fighting for necessity, they quarrel through ambition. |
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To the States or any one of them, or any city of the States, Resist much, obey little, |
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Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; 'Tis dearness only that gives every thing its value, Heaven knows how to set a proper price upon its goods; and it would be strange indeed, if so celestial an article as freedom should not be highly rated. |
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