Land Of The Free Quotes

For Catholics before Vatican II, the land of the free was pre-eminently the land of Sister Says-except, of course, for Sister, for whom it was the land of Father Says.

Private Manning is the world’s pre-eminent prisoner of conscience, having remained true to the Nuremberg principle that every soldier has the right to ‘a moral choice.’ His suffering mocks the notion of the land of the free.

The nation is in a death-struggle. It must either become one vast slaveocracy of petty tyrants, or wholly the land of the free.

I can’t claim to know the words of all the national anthems in the world, but I don’t know of any other that ends with a question and a challenge as ours does: Does that flag still wave o’er the land of the free and the home of the brave? That is what we must all ask.

Hail, hail Freedonia, land of the free!

O, say does that star-spangled flag of pride yet wave? O’er the land of the free, and the home for the gay!

We call our country home of the brave and land of the free, but it’s not. We give a false portrayal of freedom. We’re not free – if we were, we’d allow people their freedom.

Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.

If you love this land of the free, bring them home, bring them home, Bring them back from overseas.

Of the people, by the people, for the people.

America, the land of the free, is turning itself into the land of the free ride. [U.S. airlines] are operating in protected markets. They are hoovering up public funds and they still can’t make a profit.

And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave,
O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave.

Do we call this the land of the free? What is it to be free from King George the Fourth and continue the slaves of prejudice? What is it to be born free and equal, and not to live? What is the value of any political freedom, but as a means to moral freedom?

This is called ‘the land of the free and the home of the brave’; it is called the ‘asylum of the oppressed,’ and some have been foolish enough to call it the ‘Cradle of Liberty.’ If it is the ‘Cradle of Liberty,’ they have rocked the child to death.

You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.

You call yourself what you want to call yourself. This is the land of the free.

[Donald Trump] is his own man – distinctly American. And where else would an independent spirit like his find a following than in the land of the free and the home of the brave?