Freedom Quotes

"I cannot conceive of a greater loss than the loss of one's native land."

"I fought to preserve the Union and to end slavery."

"The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that very existence is an act of rebellion."

"The greatest weapon is not steel, but the will of free men."

"Freedom without responsibility becomes merely license for chaos."

"Freedom is not the absence of constraints, but the right to choose them."

"I would rather be a private citizen of the South than to be its dictator."

"Freedom without responsibility is anarchy."

"The price of liberty is eternal vigilance."

"Liberty without order is chaos."

"Vain is the hope of any civilization based on slavery and forced labor."

"No conquering force has ever held a land in which the people were not willing to be held."

"I fight for the Union because the Union is the last hope of mankind."

"The Union is more precious than any individual state or region."

"The preservation of constitutional government is worth any cost."

"The true enemy of the Union was not the South, but disunion itself."

"Discipline is not the absence of freedom, but its highest expression."

"The freedom bought with blood demands a price of constant vigilance."

"The right to vote is the right to participate; it is the necessary consequence of the equality of rights which all men possess."

"I would fight all the men in the world rather than acknowledge the right of anyone to dictate to me."

"To move swiftly, one must travel light; excess baggage is the enemy of all armies and all lives."

"The best security for civil liberty is to have ample military knowledge in the body of the people."

"Nothing is impossible for the man who has nothing to lose."

"Freedom is earned through sacrifice, not granted through compromise."

"The true liberator is he who frees men from slavery to themselves."

"True freedom comes from within, not from external circumstances."

"The preservation of freedom requires eternal vigilance."

"I have always advocated the freedom of the press."

"I abhor slavery as much as any man living."

"The cause of the great prosperity of the United States is simple; it is because man has been left more free there than anywhere else."