Independence Day Sayings
Celebrating liberty, freedom, and the American spirit — 771 sayings
The only freedom, therefore, which is of real value, is that of pursuing our own good in our own way.
It is a strange desire, to seek power and to lose liberty.
The greatest glory of a free-born people is to transmit that freedom to their children.
People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.
Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.
Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
I am unable to refuse to accept the responsibility of my own freedom.
The discourse of truth is not always the discourse of freedom.
The only way to escape the personal consequences of freedom is to give up the very freedom itself.
What is freedom? Freedom is the right to be wrong, not the right to do wrong.
The greatest fruit of self-sufficiency is freedom.
I come bearing an olive branch in one hand, and the freedom fighter's gun in the other. Do not let the olive branch fall from my hand.
The happy life is to be found in the mind's freedom from disturbance.
It is better to starve to death in freedom from grief and fear, than to live in plenty with perturbation.
Freedom is not the right to do what you want, but the power to do what is right.
The British Empire is finished; only the Americans are too stupid to see it.
Americans think they can buy friendship with money.
The state is nothing but a machine for the oppression of one class by another, and indeed in the democratic republic no less than in the monarchy.
Freedom is the recognition of necessity.
The first condition of all freedom is not to be a slave.