Saturday, July 03, 2010 "Freedom Quotes" Independence Day

Saturday, July 03, 2010

"Freedom Quotes" Independence Day

I love quotes, but not just anyone’s quotes, the ones that are from experience, the ones whose hearts have experienced the moment! The ones that fall within the criteria described in the one below.

"It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done better.

The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred by the dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions and spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who, at worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly; so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory or defeat." - Theodore Roosevelt
　
"For, brethren, ye have been called unto liberty; only use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another." -Gal 5:13

"Those who profess to favor freedom, yet deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground. They want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters. This struggle may be a moral one, or it may be a physical one, or it may be both moral and physical, but it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will." - Frederick Douglass (Frederick Douglass (born Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey, circa 1818 – February 20, 1895) was an American abolitionist, women's suffragist, editor, orator, author, statesman, minister, and reformer.)

"The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance; which condition if he breaks, servitude is at once the consequence of his crime and the punishment of his guilt." - John Philpot Curran. (John Philpot Curran (24 July 1750 – 14 October 1817) was an Irish orator, politician, and wit, born in Newmarket, County Cork.)

"It is not the function of our government to keep the citizen from falling into error; it is the function of the citizen to keep the government from falling into error." - U.S. Supreme Court in American Communications Association v. Douds.

"History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid." - Dwight D. Eisenhower, First Inaugural Address, Jan. 20, 1953 

"To the American people, I bid a fond farewell. Guard your liberties. It is the trust of each generation to pass a free republic to the next. And if I know you right, you will rouse yourself from slumber to ensure exactly that." - Ambrose Evans-Pritchard. (Ambrose Evans-Pritchard (born 1957) is the international business editor of the Daily Telegraph.)

"In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." - Martin Luther King, Jr. 

"I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of freedoms of the people by gradual and silent encroachment of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." - James Madison.

"The truth is, all might be free if they valued freedom, and defended it as they ought." - Samuel Adams 

"If we become a people who are willing to give up our money and our freedom in exchange for rhetoric and promises, then nothing can save us." - Thomas Sowell. (Thomas Sowell (born June 30, 1930), is an American economist, social critic, political commentator, and author.)

"Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom." - Albert Einstein.

"Freedom is never an achieved state; like electricity, we've got to keep generating it or the lights go out." - Wayne LaPierre. (Wayne LaPierre (born November 8, 1948), is an American author and Second Amendment advocate. He is best known for his position as the Executive Vice President of the National Rifle Association.)

"Still, if you will not fight for the right when you can easily win without bloodshed if you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not so costly, you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a precarious chance for survival. There may be a worse case. You may have to fight when there is no chance of victory because it is better to perish than to live as slaves." - Winston Churchill. 

"The two enemies of the people are criminals and government, so let us tie the second down with the chains of the Constitution so the second will not become the legalized version of the first." - Thomas Jefferson

"Liberty is the right to choose. Freedom is the result of the right choice." -Anon

May God bless each of you,

David