“For though the flame of liberty may sometimes cease to shine, the coal can never expire.”
More from Thomas Paine on Freedom
“Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must like men undergo the fatigue of supporting it.”
“Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must, like men, undergo the fatigues of supporting it.”
“Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.”
“When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon.”
“To say that any people are not fit for freedom, is to make poverty their choice, and to say they had rather be loaded with taxes than not.”
Others on Freedom
Thomas Jefferson
8 quotes“no people can be both ignorant and free.”
Nelson Mandela
8 quotes“Crime must be brought under control... Freedom without civility, freedom without the ability to live in peace, was not t...”
Eisenhower
7 quotes“If you want total security, go to prison. There you're fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lackin...”
Epictetus
7 quotes“You may fetter my leg, but Zeus himself cannot get the better of my free will.”
Spinoza
6 quotes“He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.”
James Madison
6 quotes“Liberty may be endangered by the abuses of liberty as well as by the abuses of power.”
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
6 quotes“Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.”
Malcolm X
6 quotes“You are either free or not free”
Frederick Douglass
6 quotes“Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.”
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
5 quotes“Freedom or prison--what's the difference? A man must develop unwavering will power subject only to his reason.”
Daniel Webster
5 quotes“A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue.”
John Milton
5 quotes“None can love freedom heartily but good men - the rest love not freedom but licence.”