“I looked at my hands, to see if I was the same person now that I was free. There was such a glory over everything; the sun came like gold through the trees, and over de fields, and I felt like I was in heaven.”
Harriet Tubman
“It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either.”
Mark Twain
“Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.”
Abraham Lincoln
“Those who desire to give up freedom in order to gain security will not have, nor do they deserve, either one.”
Benjamin Franklin
“Man is free at the moment he wishes to be.”
Voltaire
“All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom; justice; honor; duty; mercy; hope”
Winston Churchill
“We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought.”
Bertrand Russell
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