Freedom cannot be bestowed

Freedom cannot be bestowed – it must be achieved. Elbert Hubbard

In the truest sense,

In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved. Franklin D. Roosevelt

Freedom has its life

Freedom has its life in the hearts, the actions, the spirit of men and so it must be daily earned and refreshed – else like a flower cut from its life-giving roots, it will wither and die. Dwight D. Eisenhower

Freedom is not merely

Freedom is not merely the opportunity to do as one pleases; neither is it merely the opportunity to choose between set alternatives. Freedom is, first of all, the chance to formulate the available choices, to argue over them — and then, the opportunity to choose. C. Wright Mills

Everything that is really

Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom. Albert Einstein

For what avail the

For what avail the plough or sail, or land or life, if freedom fail? Ralph Waldo Emerson

Government of the people,

Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth. Abraham Lincoln