To truth belongs freedom. [ Richter ]

Absolute freedom is inhuman. [ Rahel ]

On the mountains is freedom. [ Friedrich Schiller ]

Only law can give us freedom. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

Freedom's soil hath only place
For a free and fearless race! [ Whittier ]

Knowledge is essential to freedom. [ William Ellery Channing ]

For Freedom's battle once begun,
Bequeath'd by bleeding sire to son.
Though baffled oft is ever won. [ Byron ]

A bird in a cage is not half a bird. [ Beecher ]

A day, an hour of virtuous liberty,
Is worth a whole eternity in bondage. [ Addison ]

Void of freedom, what would virtue be? [ Lamartine ]

Freedom is only in the land of dreams. [ Schiller ]

O freedom, first delight of human kind! [ Dryden ]

I am as free as nature first made man.
Ere the base laws of servitude began,
When wild in woods the noble savage ran. [ Dryden ]

Oh, only a free soul will never grow old! [ Jean Paul Richter ]

The cause of freedom is the cause of God. [ Bowles ]

'Tis liberty alone that gives the flowers
Of fleeting life their luster and perfume.
And we are weeds without it. [ Cowper ]

Free soil, free men, free speech, Fremont. [ Republican Rallying Cry, 1856 ]

No, Freedom has a thousand charms to show,
That slaves, however contented, never know. [ Cowper ]

Freedom is not caprice, but room to enlarge. [ C. A. Bartol ]

The man is free who is protected from injury. [ Daniel Webster ]

And lo! the fullness of the time has come.
And over all the exile's western home.
From sea to sea the flowers of freedom bloom! [ Whittier ]

The freedom of the press should be inviolate. [ J. Q. Adams ]

Eternal Spirit of the chainless mind!
Brightest in dungeons, Liberty! thou art.
For there thy habitation is the Heart -
The Heart which love of thee alone can bind;
And when thy sons to fetters are consigned -
To fetters and the damp vault's dayless gloom,
Their country conquers with their Martyrdom,
And Freedom's fame finds wings on every wind. [ Byron ]

The greatest glory of a free-born people
Is to transmit that freedom to their children. [ Havard ]

Welcome, grave stranger, to our green retreats,
Where health with exercise and freedom meets. [ Sir Walter Scott ]

Merely to breathe freely does not mean to live. [ Goethe ]

Liberty is given by nature even to mute animals. [ Tacitus ]

Thought takes man out of servitude into freedom. [ Emerson ]

We must be free or die, who speak the tongue
That Shakespeare spake; the faith and morals hold
Which Milton held! [ Wordsworth ]

But slaves that once conceive the glowing thought
Of freedom, in that hope itself possess
All that the contest calls for; spirit, strength,
The scorn of danger, and united hearts,
The surest presage of the good they seek. [ Cowper ]

The faults of our neighbours with freedom we blame,
But tax not ourselves, though we practise the same. [ Cunningham ]

Wherever snow falls, there is usually civil freedom. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

Freedom is a new religion, the religion of our time. [ Heine ]

There can be no friendship where there is no freedom. [ Wm. Penn ]

One can live in true freedom, and yet not be unbound. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

That is true liberty which bears a pure and firm breast. [ Ennius ]

Twine round thee threads of steel, like thread on thread,
That grow to fetters, or bind down thy arms
With chains concealed in chaplets. Oh, not yet
Mayst thou embrace thy corselet, nor lay by
Thy sword; not yet, O Freedom, close thy lids
In slumber; for thine enemy never sleeps.
And thou must watch and combat till the day
Of the new earth and heaven. [ Bryant ]

And never shall the sons of Columbia be slaves.
While the earth bears a plant, or the sea rolls its waves. [ Robert Treat Paine ]

Genius can only breathe freely in an atmosphere of freedom. [ J. S. Mill ]

Grace is the beauty of form under the influence of freedom. [ Friedrich Schiller ]

The man strives after freedom, the woman after good manners. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

The sun of freedom cannot set so long as smiths hammer iron. [ E. M. Arndt ]

There are zealots for slavery as well as zealots for freedom. [ Burleigh ]

Man is created free, and is free, even though born in chains. [ Schiller ]

Hail, Columbia! happy land! Hail, ye heroes! heaven-born band!
Who fought and bled in Freedom's cause. [ Joseph Hopkinson ]

To deny the freedom of the will is to make morality impossible. [ Froude ]

Slow are the steps of freedom, but her feet turn never backward. [ Lowell ]

Freedom exists only where the people take care of the government. [ Woodrow Wilson, At the Workingman's Dinner, N. Y., Sept. 4, 1912 ]

Is it worth the name of freedom to be at liberty to play the fool? [ Locke ]

Is any man free except the one who can pass his life as he pleases? [ Persius ]

Freedom is the ferment of freedom.
The moistened sponge drinks up water greedily; the dry one sheds it. [ Holmes ]

The whole freedom of man consists either in spiritual or civil liberty. [ Milton ]

Countries are well cultivated, not as they are fertile, but as they are free. [ Montesquieu ]

Except in obedience to the heaven-chosen is freedom not so much as conceivable. [ Carlyle ]

The man who seeks freedom for anything but freedom's self is made to be a slave. [ De Tocqueville ]

There is no tyrant like custom, and no freedom where its edicts are not resisted. [ Bovee ]

Personal liberty is the paramount essential to human dignity and human happiness. [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]

Hope for a season bade the world farewell, and Freedom shrieked as Kosciusko fell. [ Campbell ]

I intend no modification of my oftexpressed wish that all men everywhere could be free. [ Abraham Lincoln ]

Nations grow corrupt, love bondage more than liberty; bondage with ease than strenuous liberty. [ Milton ]

A freeman contending for liberty on his own ground is superior to any slavish mercenary on earth. [ George Washington ]

All special charters of freedom must be abrogated where the universal law of freedom is to flourish. [ Heine ]

Service cannot be expected from a friend in service; let him be a freeman who wishes to be my master. [ Martial ]

Every form of freedom is hurtful, except that which delivers us over to perfect command of ourselves. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

The cry of the soul is for freedom. It longs for liberty, from the date of its first conscious moments. [ J. G. Holland ]

Freedom and slavery, the one is the name of virtue, and the other of vice and both are acts of the will. [ Epictetus ]

To prove that the Americans ought not to be free, we are obliged to deprecate the value of freedom itself. [ Burke ]

The recovery of freedom is so splendid a thing that we must not shun even death when seeking to recover it. [ Cicero ]

I always had an aversion to your apostles of freedom; each but sought for himself freedom to do what he liked. [ Goethe ]

The only freedom worth possessing is that which gives enlargement to a people's energy, intellect and virtues. [ Channing ]

In the long, fierce struggle for freedom of opinion, the press, like the church, counted its martyrs by thousands. [ James A. Garfield ]

In giving freedom to the slave we assure freedom to the free - honorable alike in what we give and what we preserve. [ Abraham Lincoln ]

As freedom is the only safeguard of governments, so are order and moderation generally necessary to preserve freedom. [ Macaulay ]

The liberty of the press is the true measure of all other liberty; for all freedom without this must be merely nominal. [ Chatfield ]

Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants, it is the creed of slaves. [ William Pitt ]

We do not know of how much a man is capable if he has the will, and to what point he will raise himself if he feels free. [ J. von Muller ]

Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites. [ Burke ]

What have the Germans gained by their boasted freedom of the press, except the liberty of abusing each other as they like? [ Goethe ]

The freedom of some is the freedom of the herd of swine that ran violently down a steep place into the sea and were drowned. [ Rev. W. Jay ]

The freedom of a government does not depend upon the quality of its laws, but upon the power that has the right to create them. [ Thaddeus Stevens ]

There are two freedoms - the false, where a man is free to do what he likes; the true, where a man is free to do what he ought. [ Charles Kingsley ]

Freedom in a democracy is the glory of the state, and, therefore, in a democracy only will the freeman of nature deign to dwell. [ Plato ]

By the laws of God, of nature, of nations, and of your country you an and ought to be as free a people at your brethren in England. [ Swift ]

Who can in reason then or right assume monarchy over such as live by right his equals, if in power or splendor less, in freedom equal? [ Milton ]

Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither justice nor freedom can be permanently maintained. [ James A. Garfield ]

Intellectually, as politically, the direction of all true progress is towards greater freedom, and along an endless succession of ideas. [ Bovee ]

Perfect purity, fullness of joy, everlasting freedom, perfect rest, health and fruition, complete security, substantial and eternal good. [ Hannah More ]

Drinking of wine brings poverty, shame, quarrels; leads to calumnious talk, unchastity, murder, and the loss of freedom, of honor, of understanding. [ Tosafot ]

Death is the liberator of him whom freedom cannot release, the physician of him whom medicine cannot cure, and the comforter of him whom time cannot console. [ Colton ]

I want a sofa, as I want a friend, upon which I can repose familiarly; if you can not have intimate terms and freedom with one and the other, they are of no good. [ W. M. Thackeray ]

There are some races more cultured and advanced and ennobled by education than others; but there are no races nobler than others. All are equally destined for freedom. [ Alexander von Humboldt ]

A man that is fit to make a friend of, must have conduct to manage the engagement, and resolution to maintain it; he must use freedom without roughness, and oblige without design. [ Jeremy Collier ]

Freedom may come quickly in robes of peace, or after ages of conflict and war; but come it will, and abide it will, so long as the principles by which it was acquired are held sacred. [ Edward Everett ]

Women who are the least bashful are not unfrequently the most modest; and we are never more deceived than when we would infer any laxity of principle from that freedom of demeanor which often arises from a total ignorance of vice. [ Colton ]

The true greatness and the true happiness of a country consist in wisdom; in that enlarged and comprehensive wisdom which includes education, knowledge, religion, virtue, freedom, with every influence which advances and every institution which supports them. [ Henry Giles ]

Nowadays enthusiasm is accounted folly; truth, cynicism; dissimulation, self-control; stiffness of manners, dignity; deception, cleverness; hypocrisy, decency; selfishness, economy; freedom of thought, effrontery; and superstition, the prop of human morals. What progress in language!

Among all the accomplishments of youth there is none preferable to a decent and agreeable behavior among men, a modest freedom of speech, a soft and elegant manner of address, a graceful and lovely deportment, a cheerful gravity and good-humor, with a mind appearing ever serene under the ruffling accidents of human life. [ Watts ]

Gentlemen, do you know what is the finest speech that I ever in my life heard or read? It is the address of Garibaldi to his Roman soldiers, when he told them: Soldiers, what I have to offer you is fatigue, danger, struggle and death; the chill of the cold night in the free air, and heat under the burning sun; no lodgings, no munitions, no provisions, but forced marches, dangerous watchposts and the continual struggle with the bayonet against batteries; - those who love freedom and their country may follow me. That is the most glorious speech I ever heard in my life. [ Kossuth ]