fight for liberty Quotes

Freedom is not a tea party, India. Freedom is a war.

Your readiness to suffer will light the torch of freedom which will never be put out.

If you pinch the sea of its liberty, though it be walls of stone or brass, it will beat them down.

The recovery of freedom is so splendid a thing that we must not shun even death when seeking to recover it.

Liberty, in its last analysis, is but the sweat of the poor and the blood of the brave.

Those who have known freedom and then lost it, have never known it again

Roll up your sleeves, set your mind to making history, and wage such a fight for liberty that the whole world will respect our sex.

We have to call it "freedom": who'd want to die for "a lesser tyranny"

In my lifetime, I have seen how greater liberty, greater justice, and greater respect ultimately does prevail, but it prevails only when people are willing to fight for it and willing to lose for it.

Liberty is an old fact; it has had its heroes and its martyrs in almost every age. As I look back through the vista of centuries, I can see no end of the ranks of those who have toiled and suffered in its cause, and who wear upon their breasts its stars of the legion of honor.

Let me ask you, sir, when is the time for brave men to exert themselves in the cause of liberty and their country, if this is not?

Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with keener fangs than freedom never endangered.

The fact is that liberty, in any true sense, is a concept that lies quite beyond the reach of the inferior man's mind. And no wonder, for genuine liberty demands of its votaries a quality he lacks completely, and that is courage. The man who loves it must be willing to fight for it; blood, said Jefferson, is its natural manure. Liberty means self-reliance, it means resolution, it means the capacity for doing without . . . the average man doesn't want to be free. He wants to be safe.

The original American patriots were those individuals brave enough to resist with force the oppressive power of King George... Patriotism is more closely linked to dissent than it is to conformity and a blind desire for safety and security.

No times were more dangerous than when our country was born, when revolution was our midwife.