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Freedom Quotes by John Quincy Adams
- America is a friend of freedom everywhere, but a custodian only of our own.
- Who but shall learn that freedom is the prize Man still is bound to rescue or maintain; That nature's God commands the slave to rise,…
- Individual liberty is individual power, and as the power of a community is a mass compounded of individual powers, the nation which enjoys the most…
- Civil liberty can be established on no foundation of human reason which will not at the same time demonstrate the right of religious freedom.
- America does not go abroad in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to the freedom and independence of all. She well knows…
- [America's] glory is not dominion, but liberty. Her march is the march of the mind. She has a spear and a shield: but the motto…
- Wherever the standard of freedom and independence has been or shall be unfurled, there will be America's heart, her benedictions and her prayers.
- This hand, to tyrants ever sworn the foe, For Freedom only deals the deadly blow; Then sheathes in calm repose the vengeful blade, For gentle…
- The conflict between the principle of liberty and the fact of slavery is coming gradually to an issue. Slavery has now the power, and falls…
- The best guarantee against the abuse of power consists in the freedom, the purity, and the frequency of popular elections.
- The conflict between the principle of liberty and the fact of slavery is coming gradually to an issue. Slavery has now the power, and falls…
- In the American hemisphere the cause of freedom and independence has continued to prevail, and if signalized by none of those splendid triumphs which had…
- America... goes not abroad, in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to the freedom and independence of all.
- Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it.
- Let us not be unmindful that liberty is power, that the nation blessed with the largest portion of liberty must in proportion to its numbers…
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- I've never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It's probably because they have forgotten their own. — Margaret Atwood
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