100 Quotes on Faith & Freedom!
“What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives every thing its value. Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods; and it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as freedom should not be highly rated.”
– Thomas Paine –
“We have all one common cause; let it, therefore, be our only contest, who shall most contribute to the security of the liberties of America.”
– John Hancock –
“We’re so afraid of offending people that we’d rather leave them in their dysfunction than speak the truth that would set them free.”
– Samuel Deuth –
“If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or your arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.”
– Samuel Adams –
“The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.”
– Thomas Jefferson –
“Weak men prefer the predictable harbor of a tyrant to the raging seas of Liberty.”
– Samuel Deuth –
“Freedom is not a gift bestowed upon us by other men, but a right that belongs to us by the laws of God and nature.”
– Benjamin Franklin –
“If the representatives of the people betray their constituents, there is then no recourse left but in the exertion of that original right of self-defense which is paramount to all positive forms of government.”
– Alexander Hamilton –
“Don’t say thank you when the government gives you back a portion of the freedoms they should never have taken.”
– Samuel Deuth –
“The preservation of the sacred fire of liberty, and the destiny of the Republican model of Government, are justly considered as deeply, perhaps as finally staked, on the experiment entrusted to the hands of the American people.”
– George Washington –
“Hold on, my friends, to the Constitution and to the Republic for which it stands. Miracles do not cluster, and what has happened once in 6,000 years, may not happen again. Hold on to the Constitution, because if the American Constitution should fail, there will be anarchy throughout the world.”
– Daniel Webster –
“A lie that enslave nations: It doesn’t affect me so Im not going to say anything or get involved.”
– Samuel Deuth –
“Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.”
– Thomas Paine –
“The Gospel is not dependent on America, but America is dependent on the Gospel.”
– Mike Huckabee –
“Trying to create liberty without Jesus, the source of liberty, is like flipping a light switch on that isn’t connected to electricity and expecting the light to turn on.”
– Samuel Deuth –
“The most terrifying words in the English language are: I’m from the government and I’m here to help.”
– Ronald Reagan –
“Freedom hath been hunted round the globe. Asia and Africa have long expelled her. Europe regards her like a stranger, and England hath given her warning to depart. O! Receive the fugitive, and prepare in time an asylum for mankind.”
– Thomas Paine –
“Those who know the truth and don’t speak it are a willing partner to the destruction of their generation.”
– Samuel Deuth –
“There is nothing so likely to produce peace as to be well prepared to meet an enemy.”
– George Washington –
“What country can preserve its liberties if its rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms.”
– Thomas Jefferson –
“If America stays free it won’t be by it’s politicians but by it’s parents and pastors.”
– Samuel Deuth –
“We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion... Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.”
– John Adams –
“It is the duty of the patriot to protect his country from its government.”
– Thomas Paine –
“A strong nation are a people submitted to God’s Word.”
– Samuel Deuth –
“You will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make a good use of it.”
– John Adams –
“If the freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.”
– George Washington –
“Do not comply with the demands of a tyrant.”
– Samuel Deuth –
“The policy of American government is to leave its citizens free, neither restraining them nor aiding them in their pursuits.”
– Thomas Jefferson –
“Those people who will not be ruled by God will be ruled by tyrants.”
– William Penn –
“A wartime season in a nation requires wartime messages from our pulpits.”
– Samuel Deuth –
“The liberties of our country, the freedom of our civil constitution, are worth defending against all hazards: And it is our duty to defend them against all attacks.”
– Samuel Adams –
“They who would give up an essential liberty for temporary security, deserve neither liberty or security.”
– Benjamin Franklin –
“Truth is foreign to this generation, so keep speaking it until they understand.”
– Samuel Deuth –
“Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!”
– Patrick Henry –
“The secret of freedom lies in educating people, whereas the secret of tyranny is in keeping them ignorant.”
– Maximilien Robespierre –
“When a nation embraces the Bible it moves towards freedom.”
– Samuel Deuth –
“No man, therefore, can be a good member of the community that is not as zealous to oppose tyranny, as he is ready to obey magistracy.”
– Samuel West –
“If there is a decay of conscience, the pulpit is responsible for it. If the public press lacks moral discrimination, the pulpit is responsible for it. If the church is degenerate and worldly the pulpit is responsible for it. If the world loses its interest in religion, the pulpit is responsible for it. If satan rules in our halls of legislation, the pulpit is responsible for it. If our politics become so corrupt that the very foundations of our government are ready to fall away, the pulpit is responsible for it.”
– Charles Finney –
“Truth is an ever rising platform—it elevates all who are willing to stand firmly on it.”
– Samuel Deuth –
“Our cruel and unrelenting enemy leaves us no choice but a brave resistance, or the most abject submission; this is all we can expect- We have therefore to resolve to conquer or die: Our own Country’s honor, all call upon us for a vigorous and manly exertion, and if we now shamefully fail, we shall become infamous to the whole world. Let us therefore rely upon the goodness of the Cause, and the aid of the supreme Being, in whose hands Victory is, to animate and encourage us to great and noble actions.”
– George Washington –
“If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace.”
– Thomas Paine –
“Free people that are passive towards government overreach will not remain free for long.”
– Samuel Deuth –
“They tell us, sir, that we are weak; unable to cope with so formidable an adversary. But when shall we be stronger? Will it be the next week, or the next year? Will it be when we are totally disarmed, and when a British guard shall be stationed in every house? Shall we gather strength by irresolution and inaction? Shall we acquire the means of effectual resistance by lying supinely on our backs and hugging the delusive phantom of hope, until our enemies shall have bound us hand and foot? Sir, we are not weak if we make a proper use of those means which the God of nature hath placed in our power.”
– Patrick Henry –
“Liberty must at all hazards be supported.. We have a right to it, derived from our Maker. But if we had not, our fathers have earned and bought it for us, at the expense of their ease, their estates, their pleasure, and their blood.”
– John Adams –
“Biblical Freedom doesn’t mean you can do whatever you want. It means you’re free to do what’s right according to God’s Word.”
– Samuel Deuth –
“Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.”
– Thomas Paine –
“A general dissolution of principles and manners will more surely overthrow the liberties of America than the whole force of the common enemy. While the people are virtuous they cannot be subdued; but when once they lose their virtue then will be ready to surrender their liberties to the first external or internal invader.”
– Samuel Adams –
“Nations rise because of courage and fall because of apathy.”
– Samuel Deuth –
“Unhappy it is, though, to reflect that a brother’s sword has been sheathed in a brother’s breast and that the once-happy plains of America are either to be drenched with blood or inhabited by slaves. Sad alternative! But can a virtuous man hesitate in his choice?”
– George Washington –
“The most terrifying words in the English language are: I’m from the government and I’m here to help.”
– Ronald Reagan –
“America will stand only if it stands on God’s Word.”
– Samuel Deuth –
“The true source of our suffering has been our timidity. We have been afraid to think... Let us dare to read, think, speak, and write... Let it be known that British liberties are not the grants of princes or parliaments.”
– John Adams –
“These are the times that try men’s souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman.”
– Thomas Paine –
“Biblical morality must be central in America or sustained freedom is not possible.”
– Samuel Deuth –
“Nevertheless, to the persecution and tyranny of his cruel ministry we will not tamely submit; appealing to Heaven for the justice of our cause, we determine to die or be free.”
– Joseph Warren –
“There is an expiration date on every nation that rejects God as their creator, Jesus as their savior and The Bible as their standard.”
– Samuel Deuth –
“The true source of our suffering has been our timidity. We have been afraid to think... Let us dare to read, think, speak, and write... Let it be known that British liberties are not the grants of princes or parliaments.”
– John Adams –
“No arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is as formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women.”
– Ronald Reagan –
“Religion provides the necessary boundaries to our freedoms in America.”
– Samuel Deuth –
“If we ever forget that we’re one nation under God, then we will be a nation gone under.”
– Ronald Reagan –
“A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have.”
– Gerald R. Ford –
“A nations morality determines its stability.”
– Samuel Deuth –
“Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.”
– Abraham Lincoln –
“The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission.”
– John F. Kennedy –
“Surrendering to godless ideologies like communism, costs little in the moment, but everything in the end.”
– Samuel Deuth –
“Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God’s side, for God is always right.”
– Abraham Lincoln –
“Those who stand for nothing fall for anything.”
– Alexander Hamilton –
“It’s time to pick a hill and take a stand for our God-given liberties before there are no more hills left!”
– Samuel Deuth –
“Of the liberty of conscience in matters of religious faith, of speech and of the press; of the trial by jury of the vicinage in civil and criminal cases; of the benefit of the writ of habeas corpus; of the right to keep and bear arms… If these rights are well defined and secured against encroachment, it is impossible that government should ever degenerate into tyranny.”
– James Monroe –
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed...”
– Declaration of Independence –
“I stand not only because of the restriction the government wants to put on me but because of the chains they wan to put on my grandkids if I don’t stand.”
– Samuel Deuth –
“My fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.”
– John F. Kennedy –
“There is a price tag on human liberty. That price is the willingness to assume the responsibilities of being free men. Payment of this price is a personal matter with each of us.”
– James Monroe –
“A political party cannot save America, only free people armed with Biblical truth can usher in true freedom.”
– Samuel Deuth –
“It does not take a majority to prevail… but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brush fires of freedom in the minds of men.”
– Samuel Adams –
“When governments fear the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny.”
– Thomas Jefferson –
“Our land will not remain free if our brave remain silent.”
– Samuel Deuth –
“There is a price tag on human liberty. That price is the willingness to assume the responsibilities of being free men. Payment of this price is a personal matter with each of us.”
– James Monroe –
“The preservation of the sacred fire of liberty and the destiny of the republican model of government are justly considered, perhaps, as deeply, as finally staked on the experiment entrusted to the hands of the American people.”
– George Washington –
“Will you standby or stand in the way of evil?”
– Samuel Deuth –
“If tyranny and oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.”
– James Madison –
“The Bible is the best of all books, for it is the word of God and teaches us the way to be happy in this world and in the next. Continue therefore to read it and to regulate your life by its precepts.”
– John Jay –
“Our greatest need in the world is the Truth and those with enough courage to speak it.”
– Samuel Deuth –
“The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive. It will often be exercised when wrong, but better so than not to be exercised at all.”
– Thomas Jefferson –
“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.”
– Amendment I –
“A blind culture needs a seeing church.”
– Samuel Deuth –
“Spiritual freedom is the root of political liberty...As the union between spiritual freedom and political liberty seems nearly inseparable, it is our duty to defend both.”
– Thomas Paine –
"We have staked the whole future of our new nation, not upon the power of government; far from it. We have staked the future of all our political constitutions upon the capacity of each of ourselves to govern ourselves according to the moral principles of the Ten Commandments of God."
- James Madison -
“I will not surrender freedom for security. Firstly because it’s a false security and you cannot breathe freely or deeply with the muzzle of liberal and secular ideologies.”
– Samuel Deuth –
"I have lived, Sir, a long time, and the longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truth - that god governs in the affairs of men. And if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without his notice, is it probable that an empire can rise without his aid?"
- Benjamin Franklin -
"Posterity, you will never know how much it cost the present generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it. If you do not, I shall repent in heaven that ever I took half the pains to preserve it."
- John Adams -
“Being neutral on issues of morality is choosing the side of the enemy.”
– Samuel Deuth –
"Every man who loves peace, every man who loves his country, every man who loves liberty ought to have it ever before his eyes that he may cherish in his heart a due attachment to the Union of America and be able to set a due value on the means of preserving it."
- James Madison -
“Great Nations are built on strong families. Strong families are built on strong values. Strong values are from God’s Word.”
– Samuel Deuth –
"I hope our people will keep up their courage. i have not doubt of their finally succeeding by the blessing of GOD, nor have I any doubt that so good a cause will fail of that blessing."
- Benjamin Franklin -
"Courage, then, my countrymen, our contest is not only whether we ourselves shall be free, but whether there shall be left to mankind an asylum on earth for civil and religious liberty."
- Samuel Adams -
“Freedom is handed over through passivity but regained only through passion.”
– Samuel Deuth –
“If a politician is telling you what speech you’re free to say, then it’s not “free speech.”
– Samuel Deuth –
“When it comes to Liberty: Are you doing what’s right for the next generation or just what’s easy for yours?”
– Samuel Deuth –
“America doesn’t need secular conservatives, it needs Biblical conservatives.”
– Samuel Deuth –
“I am for peace! But not at the expense of the next generation.”
– Samuel Deuth –
“Every time a nation attempts to build a government with any other foundation than the Bible—it will end in destruction and oppression of their people.”
– Samuel Deuth –
“Don’t tolerate evil in your life, family or nation.”
– Samuel Deuth –
“Personal comfort is a poor exchange for nation freedom.”
– Samuel Deuth –
“Silence doesn’t absolve you from guilt. If God opens your eyes to injustice and you ignore it—that blood is on your hands.”
– Samuel Deuth –