Freedom Is Precious Quotes

#1. Freedom is precious to those who don't have it.

Virginia Prodan

#2. Freedom is dangerous but it's precious, too. You can't just throw it away or let it slip away. You can't sell it for bread and pottage.

Octavia E. Butler

#3. There is little to be said in favour of poverty, but it was often an incubator of true friendship. Many people will appear to befriend you when you are wealthy, but precious few will do the same when you are poor

Nelson Mandela

#4. You either limit the government, or you limit the scope of your life. Why is the government that precious to you in the first place?

A.E. Samaan

#5. Writing is about freedom. It may become precious and fleeting at any time. Don't let anybody shackle down your wings with doubt.

B.A. Gabrielle

#6. Freedom is our most precious treasure. Don't lose it for anything ...

Rajneesh

#7. Freedom of thought is the only good that is perhaps more precious than peace, for the simple reason that, without it, peace would merely be another name of servitude.

Andre Comte-Sponville

#8. We are, heart and soul, friends to the freedom of the press ... It is a precious pest, and a necessary mischief, and there would be no liberty without it.

Fisher Ames

#9. There is a loneliness more precious than life. There is a freedom more precious than the world. Infinitely more precious than life and the world is that moment when one is alone with God.

Rumi

#10. People of old deemed freedom from greed precious, and this is how they got beyond the world.

Zicheng Hong

#11. From the Book of Mormon come other precious promises, including promises of peace, freedom, and blessings if we 'will but serve the God of the land, who is Jesus Christ' (Ether 2:12).

Thomas S. Monson

#12. My most basic credo is: I never said freedom was cheap. And it ain't. Never will be. It's been the highest priced and most precious commodity in my life.

Sonny Barger

#13. Freedom is the recognition that no single person, no single authority or government has a monopoly on the truth, but that every individual life is infinitely precious, that every one of us put in this world has been put there for a reason and has something to offer.

Ronald Reagan

#14. Freedom is such a precious commodity. Yet sometimes the freest of people devalue it the most.

Ward Connerly

#15. I don't have to tell you how fragile this precious gift of freedom is. Every time we hear, watch, or read the news, we are reminded that liberty is a rare commodity in this world.

Ronald Reagan

#16. The most precious gift that you can give to the child is unconditional love and acceptance, which allows the child to discover his own inner being, his authentic self, his freedom to be himself.

Swami Dhyan Giten

#17. I have realized that for those who live in the West, freedom is so often something they take for granted. It has always been there for them. It is their unnoticed, unrecognized, constant companion and friend. But for those of us who come from countries like Sudan, freedom is wonderful and precious.

Mende Nazer

#18. Our soul is like a soft and gentle flower, it needs to be nurtured, cared for, tended to, with sufficient sunlight, fresh air and freedom to bloom into its most precious and beautiful form. This, my friend, is self-love.

Miya Yamanouchi

#19. Let us each of us now embrace with solemn duty, and awesome joy, what is our lasting birthright. With common effort and common purpose, with passion and dedication, let us answer the call of history and carry into an uncertain future that precious light of freedom.

Barack Obama

#20. Freedom is our most precious commodity and if we are not eternally vigilant, government will take it all away. Individual freedom demands individual responsibility.

Lyn Nofziger

#21. Freedom and opportunity are precious gifts and the purpose of our politics is to expand them, for all our people.

Ed Miliband

#22. Giving up even an ounce of precious freedom is a very serious thing to do.

Chuck Schumer

#23. Liberty is more precious than money or office; and we should be vigilant lest we purchase wealth or place at the price of inner freedom.

John Lancaster Spalding

#24. Liberty is too precious to be buried in books. Men should hold it up in front of them every single day of their lives and say, 'I'm free'.

Sidney Buchman

#25. Because if you lived, as I did, several years under Nazi totalitarianism, and then 20 years in communist totalitarianism, you would certainly realize how precious freedom is, and how easy it is to lose your freedom.

Milos Forman

#26. Censorship in the schools that denies intellectual freedom to teachers robs the student of that same freedom. And the freedom to learn is clearly no less precious than the freedom to teach.

Sterling M. McMurrin

#27. Most of the time, perhaps 99 percent of the time, the defendant is guilty; his screams are the final protest of a human being about to lost his most precious possession, his freedom.

Elizabeth F. Loftus

#28. Freedom of speech is one of the greatest American liberties, and I hope this pardon serves as a reminder of the precious freedoms we are fighting to preserve as we continue to wage the war on terror.

George Pataki

#29. The freedom to make and remake our cities and ourselves is, I want to argue, one of the most precious yet most neglected of our human rights.

David Harvey

#30. Like a precious family heirloom, freedom is not just ours to enjoy, but to treasure, protect, and pass on to future generations.

Os Guinness

#31. Freedom of the press is a precious privilege that no country can forego.

Mahatma Gandhi

#32. It is by the goodness of god that in our country we have those 3 unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.

Mark Twain

#33. Precious laughing time is wasted, because I have to put up with Satan's stupid minions who smile without attempting to anger somebody else - leave us alone already.

A Gentlemen

#34. Peace is precious to us. It is the way of life we strive for with all the strength and wisdom we possess. But more precious than peace are freedom and justice. We will fight, if fight we must, to keep our freedom and to prevent justice from being destroyed.

Harry S. Truman

#35. Liberty is rendered even more precious by the recollection of servitude.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#36. But of course there are all kinds of freedom, and the kind that is most precious you will not hear much talked about in the great outside world of winning and achieving and displaying.

David Foster Wallace

#37. Second only to freedom, learning is the most precious option on earth.

Norman Cousins

#38. People quick to criticize others, but won't shine the light on themselves. You can't always judge a book by the outside appearance. You have to open it up and read in order to discover how precious it is.

Amaka Imani Nkosazana

#39. Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.

Napoleon Bonaparte

#40. The world is starving for leaders who are not afraid to dismantle the sacred and precious beliefs, which hold us as prisoners of the past.

Bryant McGill