It was 247 years ago that the original thirteen colonies declared their independence from Britain, and the United States of America was born. Take this holiday to reflect as well as to celebrate the freedom and hope that America still continues to promise us all. To help you celebrate America’s birthday, we’ve put together a list of some powerful quotes on the true meaning of freedom:
“We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.”
~Thomas Jefferson
“Freedom is from within.”
~Frank Lloyd Wright
“Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better.”
~Albert Camus
“Man is free at the moment he wishes to be.”
~Voltaire
“Freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought.”
~Pope John Paul II
“Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.”
~Epictetus
“America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.”
~Abraham Lincoln
“Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.”
~Thomas Paine
“Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.”
~George Orwell
“Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.”
~John F. Kennedy
“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
“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
“Freedom lies in being bold.”
~Robert Frost
“The more decisions that you are forced to make alone, the more you are aware of your freedom to choose.”
~Thornton Wilder
“I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free.”
~Charles Dickens
“I would like to be remembered as a person who wanted to be free… so other people would be also free.”
~Rosa Parks
“Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery, none but ourselves can free our minds!”
~Marcus Garvey
“When we lose the right to be different, we lose the privilege to be free.”
~Charles Evans Hughes
“To be able to love and live in freedom means to be able to make godly decisions. To make godly decisions we have to surrender our egos and all the falsity and shame that goes with it.”
~James McGreevey
“Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.”
~Karl Marx
“Freedom is never given; it is won.”
~A. Philip Randolph
“Responsibility is the price of freedom.”
~Elbert Hubbard
“Freedom means the opportunity to be what we never thought we would be.”
~Daniel J. Boorstin
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