“O beautiful for spacious skies, For amber waves of grain.” | Katharine Lee Bates, “America the Beautiful” |
“Freedom lies in being bold.” | Robert Frost |
“My country, ’tis of thee, Sweet land of liberty, Of thee I sing.” | Samuel F. Smith, “My Country, ‘Tis of Thee” |
“We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.” | William Faulkner |
“From every mountainside, Let freedom ring.” | Samuel F. Smith, “My Country, ‘Tis of Thee” |
“Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.” | Emma Lazarus, “The New Colossus” |
“Do not go gentle into that good night, Rage, rage against the dying of the light.” | Dylan Thomas |
“Independence now and forever!” | Daniel Webster |
“Where liberty dwells, there is my country.” | Benjamin Franklin |
“O say does that star-spangled banner yet wave, O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave?” | Francis Scott Key, “The Star-Spangled Banner” |
“Let the annual return of this day forever refresh our recollections of these rights, and an undiminished devotion to them.” | Thomas Jefferson |
“It does not take a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men.” | Samuel Adams |
“Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.” | Thomas Paine |
“You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don’t ever count on having both at once.” | Robert A. Heinlein |
“Our flag does not fly because the wind moves it. It flies with the last breath of each soldier who died protecting it.” | Unknown |
“Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.” | Mahatma Gandhi |
“In the process of gaining our rightful place, we must not be guilty of wrongful deeds.” | Martin Luther King Jr. |
“It does not take a majority to prevail… but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men.” | Samuel Adams |
“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 |
“Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high, Where knowledge is free.” | Rabindranath Tagore, “Where the Mind is Without Fear” |
“We on this continent should never forget that men first crossed the Atlantic not to find soil for their ploughs but to secure liberty for their souls.” | Robert J. McCracken |
“I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!” | Patrick Henry |
“It is sweet and right to die for your country.” | Wilfred Owen, “Dulce Et Decorum Est” |