Bruce Barton Quotes

Whoever will be free must make himself free. Freedom is no fairy gift to fall into a man's lap.

Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.

Freedom has a price. Most people aren't willing to pay it.

Liberty will not descend to a people; a people must raise themselves to liberty; it is a blessing that must be earned before it can be enjoyed.

A chief is a man who assumes responsibility. He says 'I was beaten', he does not say 'My men were beaten.'

A hero is someone who understands the responsibility that comes with his freedom.

I became an actor in that important drama with an inflexible resolution to persevere through the last scene, when we might be permitted and acknowledged to enjoy what we had so nobly declared we would possess, or lose with our lives - Freedom and Independence!

Our officers and men behaved like men who are determined to be free.

We shall never secure emancipation from the tyranny of our oppressor until we have achieved it in our own souls.

Liberty’s in every blow! Let us do or die!

'Liberation' is an interesting word because you can be liberated from external things and also from your internal dialogue.

Most people think when the world gets itself together, we'll all be okay. I don't see that situation arriving. I think one by one, we all free ourselves from the chains we have chained ourselves to. But I don't think that suddenly some magic happens and the whole lot of us will all be liberated in one throw.

To be truly free, you should be ready to risk everything for freedom.

...you have the opportunity to free fall in this moment between birth and death, right through the hole of your fear, into the unthreatenable openess which is the source of your gifts. The superior man lives as this spontaneous sacrifice of love.

I think that I am willing to risk my life in order to have more freedom.

Man lives freely only by his readiness to die.

All of us are infected today with an extraordinary egoism. And that is not freedom; freedom means learning to demand only of oneself, not of life and others, and knowing how to give: sacrifice in the name of love.

The Great Work is, before all things, the creation of man by himself, that is to say, the full and entire conquest of his faculties and his future; it is especially the perfect emancipation of his will.

In recent years we have seen a great deal of bravery and self-sacrifice, but civil courage hardly anywhere, even among ourselves.

Freedom is a heavy load, a great and strange burden for the spirit to undertake. It is not easy. It is not a gift given, but a choice made, and the choice may be a hard one. The road goes upward towards the light; but the laden traveler may never reach the end of it.

Liberty not only means that the individual has both the opportunity and the burden of choice; it also means that he must bear the consequences of his actions. Liberty and responsibility are inseparable.

People will never fight for your freedom if you have not given evidence that you are prepared to fight for it yourself.

Independence was a big, big thing for me. I saw my voice as a way out - when my parents fought, I'd run up to my room, put on The Sound of Music, open the window and sing out. My voice was my escape.

Every emancipation is a restoration of the human world and of human relationships to a man himself.

Only you yourself can be your liberator!