Quotes About Defending Freedom

#1. In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I do not shrink from this responsibility - I welcome it.

John F. Kennedy

#2. The world is undoubtedly a safer, freer place because Thatcher - like Reagan - refused to back down when it came to defending freedom.

Bob Barr

#3. So while gun owners are always saying that owning guns is about defending freedom, the only freedom gun owners seem interested in defending with their guns is the freedom to defend their freedom to own guns.

Dan Savage

#4. Ask the first man you meet what he means by defending freedom, and he'll tell you privately he means defending the standard of living.

Martin Niemoller

#5. Courage rides on the coattails of confidence.

April White

#6. The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one's time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all.

H.L. Mencken

#7. Freedom is indivisible. Whites can't enjoy their separate freedoms. They spend too much time and resources defending those freedoms instead of enjoying them.

Desmond Tutu

#8. I believe our flag is more than just cloth and ink. It is a universally recognized symbol that stands for liberty, and freedom. It is the history of our nation, and it's marked by the blood of those who died defending it.

John Thune

#9. Even if I didn't believe I was the kind of person who could stand up to the people who hated me, I wanted to be the kind of person who would.

David Levithan

#10. Mainstream feminism might remember that the war on women always starts with the war on whores.

Molly Crabapple

#11. It seems to me that we are profoundly ignorant of ourselves.

Edward Bond

#12. All places where the French settled have corruption at their heart, a kind of soft, rotten glow, like the phosphorescence of decaying wood, that is oddly attractive.

Anne Rivers Siddons

#13. On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily as lying down.

Woody Allen

#14. When you tap into the energy of possibility, there is always something greater than potential can give you.

Gary M. Douglas

#15. But I - and I just think it's very - one of the problems of defending the extraordinary principle of freedom of speech is that you have to defend freedom of speech for people like that too.

Salman Rushdie

#16. The American nuclear family made America great, but few are now defending it against forces determined to destroy it. If America continues to have many immigrants with different family types, we are less likely to maintain American values of personal freedom, individualism, and limited government.

Phyllis Schlafly

#17. I am not a critic of the West; I am a critic of the weakness of the West. I am a critic of a fact we can't comprehend: how one can lose one's spiritual strength, one's will power and possessing freedom, not value it, not be willing to make sacrifices for it.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#18. Walking at a moderate pace for an hour a day is considered a moderately intense level of exercise.

Michael Greger

#19. I'm certainly not the first person to be in a relationship with a younger man, but somehow I was plucked out as a bit of a poster girl.

Demi Moore

#20. The concepts "soul", "spirit" and last of all the concept "immortal soul" were invented in order to despise the body, in order to make it sick - "holy" - in order to cultivate an attitude of appalling disrespect for all things in life which deserve to be treated seriously i.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#21. There is in the DNA of the Italians a bit of madness, which in the overwhelming majority of cases is positive. It is genius. It is talent. It's the masterpieces of art. It's the food, fashion, everything that makes Italy great in the world.

Matteo Renzi

#22. Fighting for freedom" is a myth. There's only freedom in uniting. You're not really free with an, "Us vs Them" mentality; because you are constantly defending yourself. And in fighting, there's no time for freedom.

Jason Daniel Chaplin

#23. Sometimes, when one communicates with others, one produces results.

Alex Flinn

#24. There was always a way, when one knew what one wanted.

Donna Woolfolk Cross

#25. George W. Bush did an incredible job in the presidency, defending us from freedom.

Rick Perry

#26. Against slavery, against tyranny, I would gladly go to my death, no matter whose freedom I was defending.

Sarah J. Maas

#27. Whenever a few people are gathered with a spiritual impulse to connect, to resonate through the heart, to make a shift from their own ego to their essence, and then to connect to do whatever work in the world they are called to do, that's an evolutionary circle.

Barbara Marx Hubbard

#28. The murders in Paris are sickening, we stand with the French people in the fight against terror and defending the freedom of the press.

David Cameron

#29. I'm defending free speech pretty much all over the place because you still have freedom of speech.

Larry The Cable Guy

#30. 137 years later, Memorial Day remains one of America's most cherished patriotic observances. The spirit of this day has not changed - it remains a day to honor those who died defending our freedom and democracy.

Doc Hastings