Great Quotes On Freedom And Responsibility

I love quotes!  Here are some really good ones:

"We defend freedom here or it is gone. There is no place for us to run, only to make a stand. And if we fail, I think we face telling our children, and our children's children, what it was we found more precious than freedom. Because I am sure that someday - if we fail in this - there will be a generation that will ask."   Ronald Wilson Reagan

"Men fight for liberty and win it with hard knocks.  Their children, brought up easy, let it slip away again, poor fools.  And their grandchildren are once more slaves."  D.H. Lawrence, Classical American Literature, 1922

"Liberty means responsibility.  That is why most men dread it."  George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman, "Maxims: Liberty and Equality," 1905

"No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck."  Frederick Douglass, speech, Civil Rights Mass Meeting, Washington, D.C., 1883

"History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid."  Dwight D. Eisenhower

"The tragic truth is that the language of "victimization" is the true victimizer - a great crippler of young minds and spirits. To teach young people that their lives are governed - not by their own actions, but by socioeconomic forces or government budgets or other mysterious and fiendish forces beyond their control - is to teach our children negativism, resignation, passivity, and despair."   Louis Sullivan

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[hope springs eternal]

All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
Winston Churchill

[jjmurphy]

I like that one! Good find.