Quotes about Freedom Ideals

Robert Byrd

Our ideals of freedom, set forth and realized in our Constitution, are our greatest export to the world.

Shigeru Yoshida

We will not fail your expectations of us as a new nation dedicated to peace, democracy, and freedom.

Noam Chomsky

In this possibly terminal phase of human existence, democracy and freedom are more than just ideals to be valued - they may be essential to survival.

Karel Capek

Wherever on this planet ideals of personal freedom and dignity apply, there you will find the cultural inheritance of England.

John Quincy Adams

The country well knows that by once enlisting under other banners than her own … she would involve herself beyond the power of extrication in all the wars of interest and intrigue, of individual avarice, envy, and ambition, which assume the colors and usurp the standards of freedom.

Adams was not only generally wary of involvement in foreign intrigues but was suspicious of the Greek war of independence in that the Greeks were no more committed to democracy and freedom than the Ottomans were.

Sarah Vowell

The true American patriot is by definition skeptical of the government.

Bernard Bailyn

At first the relevance of chattel slavery to libertarian ideals was noted only in individual passages of isolated pamphlets.

Harry Browne

Immigrants used to come to America seeking freedom of speech, freedom of religion, and freedom from government. Now they come looking for free health care, free education, and a free lunch.

Freedom Ideals Quotes