F is for Freedom

Here are some quotes I found while looking online under "freedom". As I read these quotes and others, I realized that I take my freedom for granted so much.I hope these tidbits (and those you can find at the links on the bottom of this post) remind you too of our precious freedom, given to us by our forefathers,and put into our trust to keep passing down. "It's not about us..."-- Herman Cain.

Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same.

~Ronald Reagan

The anchor in our world today is freedom, holding us steady in times of change, a symbol of hope to all the world.~George H.W. Bush

Freedom has its life in the hearts, the actions, the spirit of men and so it must be daily earned and refreshed - else like a flower cut from its life-giving roots, it will wither and die.
~Dwight D. Eisenhower

The patriot's blood is the seed of Freedom's tree.
~Thomas Campbell

It is easy to take liberty for granted, when you have never had it taken from you.~Author unknown

For what avail the plough or sail, or land or life, if freedom fail?
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Freedom is the oxygen of the soul.
~Moshe Dayan

There are two freedoms - the false, where a man is free to do what he likes; the true, where he is free to do what he ought.
~Charles Kingsley

Freedom is never free.
~Author Unknown

These quotes were taken from these three websites:

www.notable-quotes.com
www.brainyquote.com
www.quotegarden.com