Freedom

Yesterday my family and I attended the 4th of July celebration at the Jourdanton city park.  Not only was it fun, but it was a moving, and powerful reminder of all that is great about America.  For today's post I would just like you to consider some of my favorite quotes about freedom. 

Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves, and, under a just God, cannot long retain it.
    —Abraham Lincoln

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 Fitzgerald Kennedy

Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must, like men, undergo the fatigues of supporting it.
    —Thomas Paine

The greatest Glory of a free-born People, Is to transmit that Freedom to their Children.
    —William Havard

No man is entitled to the blessings of freedom unless he be vigilant in its preservation.
    —Douglas MacArthur

Yet we can maintain a free society only if we recognize that in a free society no one can win all the time. No one can have his own way all the time, and no one is right all the time.
    —Richard M. Nixon

We, and all others who believe in freedom as deeply as we do, would rather die on our feet than live on our knees.
    —Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Freedom is nothing else but a chance to be better.
    —Albert Camus

A hungry man is not a free man.
    —Adlai E. Stevenson

When we lose the right to be different, we lose the privilege to be free.
    —Charles Evans Hughes

We fight not to enslave, but to set a country free, and to make room upon the earth for honest men to live in.
    —Thomas Paine

The unity of freedom has never relied on uniformity of opinion.
    —John Fitzgerald Kennedy

Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with keener fangs than freedom never endangered.
    —Cicero

He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from opposition; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach himself.
~Thomas Paine

The patriot's blood is the seed of Freedom's tree.  
~Thomas Campbell 

Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.  
~Napoleon Bonaparte 

We on this continent should never forget that men first crossed the Atlantic not to find soil for their ploughs but to secure liberty for their souls.  
~Robert J. McCracken 

You have freedom when you're easy in your harness.  ~Robert Frost

Freedom is that instant between when someone tells you to do something and when you decide how to respond.  ~Jeffrey Borenstein

Men fight for freedom, then they begin to accumulate laws to take it away from themselves.  ~Author Unknown   

Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have.  
~Harry Emerson Fosdick 

We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.  
~William Faulkner 

Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.  
~George Washington 


Thank you to all who have or continue to preserve, protect, and provide the greatest gift of all to humanity, freedom.  

Happy 4th of July
Pastor Pete