Quotes

Published August 14, 2010

Pakistan not only means freedom and independence but the Muslim Ideology which has to be preserved, which has come to us as a precious gift and treasure and which, we hope others will share with us.
— Muhammad Ali Jinnah

Our object should be peace within, and peace without. We want to live peacefully and maintain cordial, friendly relations with our immediate neighbours and with the world at large.
— Muhammad Ali Jinnah

Where liberty dwells, there is my country.
— Benjamin Franklin

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

Ask not what your country can do for you. Ask what you can do for your country.
— John Fitzgerald Kennedy

All we have of freedom — all we use or know — this our fathers bought for us, long and long ago.
— Rudyard Kipling

This nation will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave.
— Elmer Davis

Let freedom never perish in your hands.
— Joseph Addison

Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better.
— Albert Camus

Liberty is the breath of life to nations.
— George Bernard Shaw

We are free, truly free, when we don't need to rent our arms to anybody in order to be able to lift a piece of bread to our mouths.
— Ricardo Flores Magon

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