Freedom Quote by Eric Metaxas

The Americans speak so much about freedom in their sermons. Freedom as a possession is a doubtful thing for a church; freedom must be…

— Eric Metaxas

“There was no necessity for either to have the last word. For the first word became the only word of their romantic conversation.”

— David Paul Kirkpatrick

Women should unite upon a platform of opposition to the teaching and aim of that ever most unscrupulous enemy of freedom--the Church.

— Matilda Joslyn Gage

“Freedom for the Church comes from the necessity of the Word of God. Otherwise, it becomes arbitrariness and ends in a great many new…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

“Man has been placed on that summit where he contains within him the source of self-impulsion toward good and evil in equal measure; the…

— Friedrich Schelling

The history of humanity is the history of human freedom...Freedom is not, as Engels thought, "the recognition of necessity." Freedom is the opposite of…

— Vasily Grossman

“The national unity of a free people depends upon a sufficiently even balance of political power to make it impracticable for the administration to…

— Walter Lippmann

Hegel was the first to state correctly the relation between freedom and necessity. To him, freedom is the insight into necessity.

— Friedrich Engels

Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in his never…

— Hannah Arendt

“Freedom is the direct opposite of necessity; freedom is necessity overcome.”

— Vasily Grossman

It is a misfortune that necessity has induced men to accord greater license to this formidable engine, in order to obtain liberty, than can…

— James F. Cooper

And upon this act, sincerely believed to be an act of justice, warranted by the Constitution, upon military necessity, I invoke the considerate judgment…

— Salmon P. Chase