04/21/2026
Popped up in a memory from 2020, worth sharing again.
“Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same.” ~ Ronald Reagan ~
“The secret to happiness is freedom… And the secret to freedom is courage.” ~ Thucydides ~
“Money won’t create success, the freedom to make it will.” ~ Nelson Mandela ~
“Live free or die: Death is not the worst of evils.” ~ General John Stark ~
“True success, true happiness lies in freedom and fulfillment.” – Dada Vaswani
“Freedom lies in being bold.” – Robert Frost
“The best road to progress is freedom’s road.” – John F. Kennedy
“What then is freedom? The power to live as one wishes.” – Marcus Tullius Cicero
“It is easy to take liberty for granted, when you have never had it taken from you.” ~ Dick Cheney ~
“Better to die fighting for freedom then be a prisoner all the days of your life.” ~ Bob Marley ~
“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 ~
“The greatest threat to freedom is the absence of criticism.” ~ Wole Soyinka ~
“True freedom requires the rule of law and justice, and a judicial system in which the rights of some are not secured by the denial of rights to others.” ~ Jonathan Sacks ~
“The liberties of a people never were, nor ever will be, secure, when the transactions of their rulers may be concealed from them.” ~ Patrick Henry ~
“Man is free at the moment he wishes to be.” ~ Voltaire ~
“Every human has four endowments – self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom… The power to choose, to respond, to change.” ~ Stephen Covey ~
“There must be freedom for all to live, to think, to worship, no book, no avenue must be closed.” ~ James Larkin ~
“Perfect freedom is as necessary to the health and vigor of commerce as it is to the health and vigor of citizenship.” ~ Patrick Henry ~
“If we don’t believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don’t believe in it at all.” ~ Noam Chomsky ~
“There is no such thing as a little freedom. Either you are all free, or you are not free.” ~ Walter Cronkite ~
“Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the Government’s purposes are beneficent. Men born to freedom are naturally alert to repel invasion of their liberty by evil-minded rulers. The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in the insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning but without understanding.” ~ Justice Louis Brandeis ~
“Without freedom of thought, there can be no such thing as wisdom – and no such thing as public liberty without freedom of speech.” ~ Benjamin Franklin ~
“When a truth is not given complete freedom, freedom is not complete.” ~ Vaclav Havel ~
“Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance.” ~ Woodrow Wilson ~
