Ben Franklin Freedom Quotes

Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner.

If you give up your freedom for safety, you don't deserve either one.

The securest place is a prison cell, but there is no liberty

The purpose of money was to purchase one's freedom to pursue that which is useful and interesting.

He who sacrifices freedom for security deserves neither.

The feeling of freedom, of seein' the light It's Ben Franklin with a key and a kite! You see it, right?

We are redeemed one man at a time. There is no family pass ticket or park hopping pass to life. One ticket — one at a time. Man doesn’t vanquish hatred or bigotry. The target keeps moving. From the blacks to the Irish; atheists to Christians. But as always there are a few leaders: Ben Franklin, John Quincy Adams, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Abraham Lincoln, Fredrick Douglas, Booker T Washington, Ghandi and Martin Luther King. They know that the march toward freedom never ends, man must be ever vigilant and pray less with his lips and more with his legs.

Everyone child of humanity deserves peace and freedom. It's in their DNA!

Benjamin Franklin placed free speech at the center of American life and American philosophy some five decades before the Constitution was written: Freedom of speech is a principal pillar of a free government; when this support is taken away, the constitution of a free society is dissolved, and tyranny is erected on its ruins. . . . An evil magistrate intrusted with power to punish for words, would be armed with a weapon the most destructive and terrible. Under pretence of pruning off the exuberant branches, he would be apt to destroy the tree.

Progressives regarded Woodrow Wilson’s Fourteen Points and the Atlantic Charter of Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill as beacons of hope for mankind—and this precisely because they were considered expressions of nationalism, promising national independence and self-determination to enslaved peoples around the world. Conservatives from Teddy Roosevelt to Dwight Eisenhower likewise spoke of nationalism as a positive good, and in their day Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher were welcomed by conservatives for the “new nationalism” they brought to political life. In other lands, statesmen from Mahatma Gandhi to David Ben-Gurion led nationalist political movements that won widespread admiration and esteem as they steered their peoples to freedom.

Who are you?" [Bryce] asked in a hoarse whisper "Nathaniel Gorham." The man waited, expectantly, then his face fell. "You don't recognize it?" Bryce could do no more than shake his head. "Figures. If I'd said George Washington or Benjamin Franklin then you would have perked up. But Nathaniel Gorham? No... My name's right there next to theirs... At the bottom of the Constitution. Big as life, just like Ben's and General Washington's.

When Ben Franklin said ‘A penny saved is a penny earned,’ a penny bought almost a dollar’s worth of stuff in today’s money. Since Ben’s time, inflation has reduced the buying power of a penny by more than 98 percent.

First these left wing near communist liberals will work to take our small liberties away. Then as time goes by they manage to take away all of them. This is how America will one day lose it's freedom. Like in Roman days...the enemy lies within us.