“Freedom is never given; it is won.”
Philip Randolph
“Enjoy the peace your valor won. Let independence be our boast, Ever mindful what it cost; Ever grateful for the prize, Let its altar reach the skies!
Joseph Hopkinson
“It does not take a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men.”
Samuel Adams
“For to be free is not merely to cast off one’s chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.”
Nelson Mandela
“Let freedom never perish in your hands.”
Joseph Addison
“Independence means enjoying the freedom and empowering others too to let them do so.”
Vikrmn
“If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.”
George Orwell
“We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.”
William Faulkner
“Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech.”
Benjamin Franklin
“Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.”
Thomas Jefferson
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.”
Benjamin Franklin
“All we have of freedom, all we use or know – This our fathers bought for us long and long ago.”
Rudyard Kipling
“As eagles soar, freedom more, life is free for all.”
Roger W Hancock
“Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.”
Martin Luther King Jr.
“The cost of freedom is always high — but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender or submission.”
John F. Kennedy
“You can’t separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.”
Malcolm X
“Freedom is the sure possession of those alone who have the courage to defend it.”
Pericles
“Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have.”
Harry Emerson Fosdick
“That freedom can never be attained by a nation without suffering and sacrifice has been amply borne out by the recent tragic happenings in this subcontinent.”
Muhammad Ali Jinnah