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Best Quotes About Freedom (Top 100)
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War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.
George Orwell -
Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err.
Mahatma Gandhi -
Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.
Virginia Woolf -
All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.
Ernest Hemingway -
There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.
Elie Wiesel -
And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
Anais Nin -
America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.
Abraham Lincoln -
The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.
Albert Camus -
One word frees us of all the weight and pain in life. That word is love.
Sophocles -
Freedom lies in being bold.
Robert Frost -
The truth will set you free. But not until it is finished with you.
David Foster Wallace -
Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
Abraham Lincoln -
Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.
Jim Morrison -
Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies.
Groucho Marx -
We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.
William Faulkner -
I am an excitable person who only understands life lyrically, musically, in whom feelings are much stronger as reason. I am so thirsty for the marvelous that only the marvelous has power over me. Anything I can not transform into something marvelous, I let go. Reality doesn't impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me, I escape, one way or another. No more walls.
Anais Nin -
If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
George Orwell -
And this I believe: that the free, exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world. And this I would fight for: the freedom of the mind to take any direction it wishes, undirected. And this I must fight against: any idea, religion, or government which limits or destroys the individual. This is what I am and what I am about.
John Steinbeck -
The really important kind of freedom involves attention, and awareness, and discipline, and effort, and being able truly to care about other people and to sacrifice for them, over and over, in myriad petty little unsexy ways, every day.
David Foster Wallace -
Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.
Sigmund Freud -
For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.
Nelson Mandela -
Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery, none but ourselves can free our minds!
Bob Marley -
A man can be himself only so long as he is alone; and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom; for it is only when he is alone that he is really free.
Arthur Schopenhauer -
Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.
Oscar Wilde -
Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
Jean-Paul Sartre -
It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.
Voltaire -
Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty.
Frank Herbert -
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
George Orwell -
Let children read whatever they want and then talk about it with them. If parents and kids can talk together, we won't have as much censorship because we won't have as much fear.
Judy Blume -
The greatest threat to freedom is the absence of criticism.
Wole Soyinka -
What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.
Salman Rushdie -
The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.
Socrates -
I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it.
Thomas Jefferson -
Freedom and love go together. Love is not a reaction. If I love you because you love me, that is mere trade, a thing to be bought in the market; it is not love. To love is not to ask anything in return, not even to feel that you are giving something- and it is only such love that can know freedom.
Jiddu Krishnamurti -
I tell my students, 'When you get these jobs that you have been so brilliantly trained for, just remember that your real job is that if you are free, you need to free somebody else. If you have some power, then your job is to empower somebody else. This is not just a grab-bag candy game.
Toni Morrison -
Freedom is something that dies unless it's used.
Hunter S. Thompson -
It is better to risk saving a guilty person than to condemn an innocent one.
Voltaire -
A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.
Jim Morrison -
She had not known the weight until she felt the freedom.
Nathaniel Hawthorne -
You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind.
Mahatma Gandhi -
Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.
Vladimir Lenin -
Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.
Thomas Paine -
Who is more to be pitied, a writer bound and gagged by policemen or one living in perfect freedom who has nothing more to say?
Kurt Vonnegut -
It is easier to live through someone else than to complete yourself. The freedom to lead and plan your own life is frightening if you have never faced it before. It is frightening when a woman finally realizes that there is no answer to the question 'who am I' except the voice inside herself.
Betty Friedan -
If you want total security, go to prison. There you're fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking... is freedom.
Dwight D. Eisenhower -
Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, the wretched refuse of your teeming shore, send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed, to me: I lift my lamp beside the golden door.
Emma Lazarus -
I hope for nothing. I fear nothing. I am free.
Nikos Kazantzakis -
He who is brave is free
Seneca -
The liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerated the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than the democratic state itself. That in its essence is fascism: ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or any controlling private power.
Franklin D. Roosevelt -
A society that puts equality before freedom will get neither. A society that puts freedom before equality will get a high degree of both.
Milton Friedman -
I prefer liberty with danger than peace with slavery.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau -
Get up, stand up, Stand up for your rights. Get up, stand up, Don't give up the fight.
Bob Marley -
We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.
Abraham Lincoln -
The longer I live, the more I realize the impact of attitude on life. Attitude, to me, is more important than facts. It is more important than the past, the education, the money, than circumstances, than failure, than successes, than what other people think or say or do. It is more important than appearance, giftedness or skill. It will make or break a company... a church... a home. The remarkable thing is we have a choice everyday regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day. We cannot change our past... we cannot change the fact that people will act in a certain way. We cannot change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude. I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it. And so it is with you... we are in charge of our Attitudes.
Charles R. Swindoll -
If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.
George Washington -
Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.
Frederick Douglass -
If everyone is thinking alike, then no one is thinking.
Benjamin Franklin -
No one is free, even the birds are chained to the sky.
Bob Dylan -
And the turtles, of course...all the turtles are free, as turtles and, maybe, all creatures should be.
Dr. Seuss -
Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest.
Denis Diderot -
Art is what you can get away with.
Andy Warhol -
Freedom is not something that one people can bestow on another as a gift. Thy claim it as their own and none can keep it from them.
Kwame Nkrumah -
If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground. They want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters. This struggle may be a moral one; or it may be a physical one; or it may be both moral and physical; but it must be a struggle.
Frederick Douglass -
Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better.
Albert Camus -
To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox -
A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
Edward Abbey -
Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech.
Benjamin Franklin -
I stand for freedom of expression, doing what you believe in, and going after your dreams.
Madonna -
Until you've lost your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was or what freedom really is.
Margaret Mitchell -
I never said, 'I want to be alone.' I only said, 'I want to be let alone!' There is all the difference.
Greta Garbo -
I had reasoned this out in my mind, there was one of two things I had a right to, liberty or death; if I could not have one, I would have the other.
Harriet Tubman -
An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics.
Plutarch -
I have always strenuously supported the right of every man to his own opinion, however different that opinion might be to mine. He who denies to another this right, makes a slave of himself to his present opinion, because he precludes himself the right of changing it.
Thomas Paine -
Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts.
Daniel Patrick Moynihan -
The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home.
James Madison -
How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone.
Coco Chanel -
Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom.
George Washington Carver -
A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.
Saul Bellow -
Americans are so enamored of equality that they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom.
Alexis de Tocqueville -
I tire so of hearing people say, Let things take their course. Tomorrow is another day. I do not need my freedom when I'm dead. I cannot live on tomorrow's bread.
Langston Hughes -
True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.
Franklin D. Roosevelt -
Man is free at the moment he wishes to be.
Voltaire -
As a nation, we began by declaring that 'all men are created equal.' We now practically read it 'all men are created equal, except negroes.' When the Know-Nothings get control, it will read 'all men are created equal, except negroes, and foreigners, and Catholics.' When it comes to this I should prefer emigrating to some country where they make no pretense of loving liberty – to Russia, for instance, where despotism can be taken pure, and without the base alloy of hypocrisy.
Abraham Lincoln -
No man is entitled to the blessings of freedom unless he be vigilant in its preservation.
Douglas MacArthur -
Only in our dreams are we free. The rest of the time we need wages.
Terry Pratchett -
Freedom prospers when religion is vibrant and the rule of law under God is acknowledged.
Ronald Reagan -
I freed a thousand slaves I could have freed a thousand more if only they knew they were slaves.
Harriet Tubman -
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 -
Without a struggle, there can be no progress.
Frederick Douglass -
The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws.
Tacitus -
Freedom and justice cannot be parceled out in pieces to suit political convenience. I don't believe you can stand for freedom for one group of people and deny it to others.
Coretta Scott King -
Struggle is a never ending process. Freedom is never really won, you earn it and win it in every generation.
Coretta Scott King -
People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.
Soren Kierkegaard -
We will always remember. We will always be proud. We will always be prepared, so we will always be free.
Ronald Reagan -
Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.
Milton Friedman -
All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware.
Martin Buber -
I would like to be remembered as a person who wanted to be free... so other people would be also free.
Rosa Parks -
Freedom for the wolves has often meant death to the sheep.
Isaiah Berlin -
Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.
John Milton -
It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.
Voltaire
Even More Freedom Quotes
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I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments by those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.
James Madison -
The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people, it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government - lest it come to dominate our lives and interests.
Patrick Henry -
I had crossed the line. I was free; but there was no one to welcome me to the land of freedom. I was a stranger in a strange land.
Harriet Tubman -
The only freedom which deserves the name is that of pursuing our own good in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs, or impede their efforts to obtain it. Each is the proper guardian of his own health, whether bodily, or mental or spiritual. Mankind are greater gainers by suffering each other to live as seems good to themselves, than by compelling each to live as seems good to the rest.
John Stuart Mill -
A joyful life is an individual creation that cannot be copied from a recipe.
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi -
Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.
Franz Kafka -
Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide.
John Adams -
Never depend upon institutions or government to solve any problem. All social movements are founded by, guided by, motivated and seen through by the passion of individuals.
Margaret Mead -
Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
George Orwell -
You must learn to be still in the midst of activity and to be vibrantly alive in repose.
Indira Gandhi -
The Vietnamese people deeply love independence, freedom and peace. But in the face of United States aggression they have risen up, united as one man.
Ho Chi Minh -
Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility. For the person who is unwilling to grow up, the person who does not want to carry is own weight, this is a frightening prospect.
Eleanor Roosevelt -
The free exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world.
John Steinbeck -
Patterning your life around other's opinions is nothing more than slavery.
Lawana Blackwell -
I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.
Simone de Beauvoir -
Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.
Jean-Paul Sartre -
The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask.
Jim Morrison -
Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary.
Reinhold Niebuhr -
Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
Hannah Arendt -
We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home.
Edward R. Murrow -
I was ecstatic when they re-named "French fries" as "freedom fries." Grown men and women in positions of power in the U.S. government showing themselves as idiots."
Johnny Depp -
Books are like imprisoned souls till someone takes them down from a shelf and frees them.
Samuel Butler -
If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.
James Madison -
Education is a human right with immense power to transform. On its foundation rest the cornerstones of freedom, democracy and sustainable human development.
Kofi Annan -
No one can terrorize a whole nation, unless we are all his accomplices.
Edward R. Murrow -
I do not want art for a few any more than education for a few, or freedom for a few.
William Morris -
Whoever will be free must make himself free. Freedom is no fairy gift to fall into a man's lap. What is freedom? To have the will to be responsible for one's self.
Max Stirner -
When I'm hungry, I eat. When I'm thirsty, I drink. When I feel like saying something, I say it.
Madonna -
If all mankind minus one were of one opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind.
John Stuart Mill -
Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first.
Charles de Gaulle -
My Brain is the key that sets me free.
Harry Houdini -
It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do.
Moliere -
You measure a democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists.
Abbie Hoffman -
Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
John F. Kennedy -
The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves.
William Hazlitt -
There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere, and many of us will have to pass through the valley of the shadow of death again and again before we reach the mountaintop of our desires.
Nelson Mandela -
The only freedom which deserves the name is that of pursuing our own good, in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs, or impede their efforts to obtain it.
John Stuart Mill -
Freedom is the sure possession of those alone who have the courage to defend it.
Pericles -
For those who know the value of and exquisite taste of solitary freedom (for one is only free when alone), the act of leaving is the bravest and most beautiful of all.
Isabelle Eberhardt -
The true meaning of America, you ask? It's in a Texas rodeo, in a policeman's badge, in the sound of laughing children, in a political rally, in a newspaper... In all these things, and many more, you'll find America. In all these things, you'll find freedom. And freedom is what America means to the world. And to me.
Audie Murphy -
I believe all Americans who believe in freedom, tolerance and human rights have a responsibility to oppose bigotry and prejudice based on sexual orientation.
Coretta Scott King -
He who allows oppression shares the crime.
Desiderius Erasmus -
You can imprison a man, but not an idea. You can exile a man, but not an idea. You can kill a man, but not an idea.
Benazir Bhutto -
History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.
Dwight D. Eisenhower -
Freedom is the open window through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit and human dignity.
Herbert Hoover -
Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.
James Madison -
Those who choose to be servants know the most about being free.
Janette Oke -
Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.
Albert Einstein -
You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man's freedom.
Clarence Darrow -
The jaws of power are always open to devour, and her arm is always stretched out, if possible, to destroy the freedom of thinking, speaking, and writing.
John Adams -
If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom, and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too.
W. Somerset Maugham -
Formerly no one was allowed to think freely; now it is permitted, but no one is capable of it any more. Now people want to think only what they are supposed to think, and this they consider freedom.
Oswald Spengler -
I was born on the prairies where the wind blew free and there was nothing to break the light of the sun. I was born where there were no enclosures.
Geronimo -
When we lose the right to be different, we lose the privilege to be free.
Charles Evans Hughes -
A man is no less a slave because he is allowed to choose a new master once in a term of years.
Lysander Spooner -
Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have the exact measure of the injustice and wrong which will be imposed on them.
Frederick Douglass -
Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself - and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine with them. That's what real love amounts to - letting a person be what he really is.
Jim Morrison -
Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.
Barry Goldwater -
If freedom is short of weapons, we must compensate with willpower.
Adolf Hitler -
The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.
H. L. Mencken -
The cause of freedom is not the cause of a race or a sect, a party or a class-it is the cause of human kind, the very birthright of humanity.
Anna Julia Cooper -
Every country has the government it deserves.
Joseph de Maistre -
Do not call for black power or green power. Call for brain power.
Barbara Jordan -
In a free society, one does not have to deal with those who are irrational. One is free to avoid them.
Ayn Rand -
Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the Government's purposes are beneficent. Men born to freedom are naturally alert to repel invasion of their liberty by evil-minded rulers. The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in the insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning but without understanding.
Louis D. Brandeis -
The only tyrant I accept in this world is the 'still small voice' within me
Mahatma Gandhi -
Our freedom can be measured by the number of things we can walk away from.
Vernon Howard -
Just living is not enough... one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.
Hans Christian Andersen -
Human beings are perhaps never more frightening than when they are convinced beyond doubt that they are right.
Laurens van der Post -
Democracy means government by discussion, but it is only effective if you can stop people talking.
Clement Attlee -
Freedom is the oxygen of the soul.
Moshe Dayan -
Freedom begins the moment you realize someone else has been writing your story and it's time you took the pen from his hand and started writing it yourself.
Bill Moyers -
We, and all others who believe in freedom as deeply as we do, would rather die on our feet than live on our knees.
Franklin D. Roosevelt -
We anarchists do not want to emancipate the people; we want the people to emancipate themselves.
Errico Malatesta -
The end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom. For in all the states of created beings capable of law, where there is no law, there is no freedom.
John Locke -
No woman can call herself free who does not own and control her body. No woman can call herself free until she can choose consciously whether she will or will not be a mother.
Margaret Sanger -
The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
Robert M. Hutchins -
It is proof of a base and low mind for one to wish to think with the masses or majority, merely because the majority is the majority. Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people.
Giordano Bruno -
How can I set free anyone who doesn't have the guts to stand up alone and declare his own freedom? I think it's a lie - people claim they want to be free - everybody insists that freedom is what they want the most, the most sacred and precious thing a man can possess. But that's bullshit! People are terrified to be set free - they hold on to their chains. They fight anyone who tries to break those chains. It's their securityHow can they expect me or anyone else to set them free if they don't really want to be free?
Jim Morrison -
Caged birds accept each other, but flight is what they long for.
Tennessee Williams -
May we think of freedom, not as the right to do as we please, but as the opportunity to do what is right.
Peter Marshall -
Dancing: The Highest Intelligence in the Freest Body.
Isadora Duncan -
Freedom is the recognition of necessity.
Friedrich Engels -
Freedom, morality, and the human dignity of the individual consists precisely in this; that he does good not because he is forced to do so, but because he freely conceives it, wants it, and loves it.
Mikhail Bakunin -
Every government is run by liars and nothing they say should be believed.
I. F. Stone -
Bad officials are the ones elected by good citizens who do not vote.
George Jean Nathan -
They won't break me because the desire for freedom, and the freedom of the Irish people, is in my heart. The day will dawn when all the people of Ireland will have the desire for freedom to show. It is then that we will see the rising of the moon.
Bobby Sands -
There are two good things in life - freedom of thought and freedom of action.
W. Somerset Maugham -
If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, cause there's a million ways to be, you know that there are.
Cat Stevens -
The most dangerous enemy of the truth and freedom amongst us is the compact majority
Henrik Ibsen -
By the will art thou lost, by the will art thou found, by the will art thou free, captive, and bound.
Angelus Silesius -
It is a paradox that every dictator has climbed to power on the ladder of free speech. Immediately on attaining power each dictator has suppressed all free speech except his own.
Herbert Hoover -
The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.
Gustave Flaubert -
Children should be educated and instructed in the principles of freedom.
John Adams -
The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.
Edmund Burke -
Freedom is for honest people. No man who is not himself honest can be free – he is his own trap.
L. Ron Hubbard -
In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority.
Edmund Burke -
The whole gospel of Karl Marx can be summed up in a single sentence: Hate the man who is better off than you are. Never under any circumstances admit that his success may be due to his own efforts, to the productive contribution he has made to the whole community. Always attribute his success to the exploitation, the cheating, the more or less open robbery of others. Never under any circumstances admit that your own failure may be owing to your own weakness, or that the failure of anyone else may be due to his own defects - his laziness, incompetence, improvidence, or stupidity.
Henry Hazlitt -
I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and democracy-but that could change.
Dan Quayle -
There must be no barriers for freedom of inquiry. There is no place for dogma in science. The scientist is free, and must be free to ask any question, to doubt any assertion, to seek for any evidence, to correct any errors.
J. Robert Oppenheimer -
All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
Winston Churchill -
The liberties of a people never were, nor ever will be, secure, when the transactions of their rulers may be concealed from them.
Patrick Henry -
The first need of a free people is to define their own terms.
Stokely Carmichael -
Love is the only freedom in the world because it so elevates the spirit that the laws of humanity and the phenomena of nature do not alter its course
Kahlil Gibran -
There is nothing so stable as change.
Bob Dylan -
Unnecessary possessions are unnecessary burdens. If you have them, you have to take care of them! There is great freedom in simplicity of living. It is those who have enough but not too much who are the happiest.
Peace Pilgrim -
I am a Republican, a black, dyed in the wool Republican, and I never intend to belong to any other party than the party of freedom and progress.
Frederick Douglass -
The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously.
Hubert H. Humphrey -
Superstition is, always has been, and forever will be, the foe of progress, the enemy of education and the assassin of freedom.
Robert Green Ingersoll -
Democracy is worth dying for, because it's the most deeply honorable form of government ever devised by man.
Ronald Reagan -
Our journey is about being more deeply involved in life, and yet less attached to it.
Ram Dass -
Freedom is the will to be responsible for ourselves.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
It is inaccurate to say that I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty, and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible for public office.
H. L. Mencken -
Writing is a form of personal freedom. It frees us from the mass identity we see in the making all around us. In the end, writers will write not to be outlaw heroes of some underculture but mainly to save themselves, to survive as individuals.
Don DeLillo -
But to manipulate men, to propel them toward goals which you-the social reformers-see, but they may not, is to deny their human essence, to treat them as objects without wills of their own, and therefore to degrade them.
Isaiah Berlin -
We have forgotten the gracious hand which has preserved us in peace and multiplied and enriched and strengthened us, and have vainly imagined in the deceitfulness of our hearts that all these blessings were produced by some superior wisdom and virtue of our own. Intoxicated with unbroken success, we have become too self sufficient to feel the necessity of redeeming and preserving Grace, too proud to pray to the God that made us.
Abraham Lincoln -
Women want men, careers, money, children, friends, luxury, comfort, independence, freedom, respect, love, and a three-dollar pantyhose that won't run.
Phyllis Diller -
Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.
Lord Acton -
True independence and freedom can only exist in doing what's right.
Brigham Young -
Freedom of speech and freedom of action are meaningless without freedom to think. And there is no freedom of thought without doubt.
Bergen Evans -
every man is free to rise as far as he's able or willing, but the degree to which he thinks determines the degree to which he'll rise.
Ayn Rand -
Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
Irving Kristol -
Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule"and both commonly succeed, and are right.
H. L. Mencken -
Each person designs his own life, freedom gives him the power to carry out his own designs, and power gives the freedom to interfere with the designs of others.
Eric Berne -
A rioter with a Molotov cocktail in his hands is not fighting for civil rights any more than a Klansman with a sheet on his back and mask on his face. They are both more or less what the law declares them: lawbreakers, destroyers of constitutional rights and liberties and ultimately destroyers of a free America.
Lyndon B. Johnson -
The real rulers in Washington are invisible, and exercise power from behind the scenes.
Felix Frankfurter -
There can be no daily democracy without daily citizenship.
Ralph Nader -
Freedom is hammered out on the anvil of discussion, dissent, and debate.
Hubert H. Humphrey -
America touts itself as the land of the free, but the number one freedom that you and I have is the freedom to enter into a subservient role in the workplace. Once you exercise this freedom you've lost all control over what you do, what is produced, and how it is produced. And in the end, the product doesn't belong to you. The only way you can avoid bosses and jobs is if you don't care about making a living. Which leads to the second freedom: the freedom to starve.
Tom Morello -
This nation will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave.
Elmer Davis -
The Framers of the Constitution knew that free speech is the friend of change and revolution. But they also knew that it is always the deadliest enemy of tyranny.
Hugo Black -
The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom - these are the pillars of society.
Henrik Ibsen -
There can be but little liberty on earth while men worship a tyrant in heaven.
Robert Green Ingersoll -
My freedom will be so much the greater and more meaningful the more narrowly I limit my field of action and the more I surround myself with obstacles. Whatever diminishes constraint diminishes strength. The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one's self of the chains that shackle the spirit.
Igor Stravinsky -
The known propensity of a democracy is to licentiousness which the ambitious call, and ignorant believe to be liberty.
Fisher Ames -
Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.
William James -
Tyranny is always better organized than freedom.
Charles Peguy -
My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.
Adlai E. Stevenson -
Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.
Thomas Jefferson -
There is no expedient to which a man will not go to avoid the labor of thinking.
Joshua Reynolds -
Elections are won by men and women chiefly because most people vote against somebody rather than for somebody.
Franklin P. Adams -
Who ever walked behind anyone to freedom? If we can't go hand in hand, I don't want to go.
Hazel Scott -
Freedom from fear' could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights.
Dag Hammarskjold -
We are a nation called to defend freedom - a tradition that is not a grant of any government or document, but is an endowment from God.
John Ashcroft -
Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting.
Alan Dean Foster -
In a democracy everybody has a right to be represented, including the jerks.
Chris Patten -
Without freedom of thought, there can be no such thing as wisdom - and no such thing as public liberty without freedom of speech.
Benjamin Franklin -
In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from.
Peter Ustinov -
[D]emocracy will soon degenerate into an anarchy, such an anarchy that every man will do what is right in his own eyes and no man's life or property or reputation or liberty will be secure, and every one of these will soon mould itself into a system of subordination of all the moral virtues and intellectual abilities, all the powers of wealth, beauty, wit and science, to the wanton pleasures, the capricious will, and the execrable cruelty of one or a very few.
John Adams -
Freedom is not merely the opportunity to do as one pleases; neither is it merely the opportunity to choose between set alternatives. Freedom is, first of all, the chance to formulate the available choices, to argue over them — and then, the opportunity to choose.
C. Wright Mills -
You can protect your liberties in this world only by protecting the other man's freedom. You can be free only if I am free.
Clarence Darrow -
The freedom that women were supposed to have found in the Sixties largely boiled down to easy contraception and abortion; things to make life easier for men, in fact.
Julie Burchill -
It is capitalist America that produced the modern independent woman. Never in history have women had more freedom of choice in regard to dress, behavior, career, and sexual orientation.
Camille Paglia -
No man is good enough to govern another man without the other's consent.
Abraham Lincoln -
In a completely sane world, madness is the only freedom.
J. G. Ballard -
As human beings, we are endowed with freedom of choice, and we cannot shuffle off our responsibility upon the shoulders of God or nature. We must shoulder it ourselves. It is our responsibility.
Arnold J. Toynbee -
If you want to love you must serve, if you want freedom you must die.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel -
Freedom means the opportunity to be what we never thought we would be.
Daniel J. Boorstin -
We have enjoyed so much freedom for so long that we are perhaps in danger of forgetting how much blood it cost to establish the Bill of Rights.
Felix Frankfurter -
Freedom of expression - in particular, freedom of the press - guarantees popular participation in the decisions and actions of government, and popular participation is the essence of our democracy.
Corazon Aquino -
A politician will do anything to keep his job - even become a patriot.
William Randolph Hearst -
A sheltered life can be a daring life as well. For all serious daring starts from within.
Eudora Welty -
Through my singing and acting and speaking, I want to make freedom ring. Maybe I can touch people's hearts better than I can their minds, with the common struggle of the common man.
Paul Robeson -
Justice is never given; it is exacted and the struggle must be continuous for freedom is never a final fact, but a continuing evolving process to higher and higher levels of human, social, economic, political and religious relationship.
A. Philip Randolph -
The essence of mathematics lies precisely in its freedom.
Georg Cantor -
We live in oppressive times. We have, as a nation, become our own thought police; but instead of calling the process by which we limit our expression of dissent and wonder âcensorship,’ we call it âconcern for commercial viability.
David Mamet -
Money won't create success, the freedom to make it will.
Nelson Mandela -
No one is truly free, they are a slave to wealth, fortune, the law, or other people restraining them from acting according to their will.
Euripides -
Man in general, if reduced to himself, is too wicked to be free.
Joseph de Maistre -
The American people, intrenched in freedom at home, take their love for it with them wherever they go...
William McKinley -
As long as the differences and diversities of mankind exist, democracy must allow for compromise, for accommodation, and for the recognition of differences.
Eugene McCarthy -
The spirit of liberty is the spirit which is not too sure that it is right; the spirit of liberty is the spirit which seeks to understands the minds of other men and women.
Learned Hand -
There's a hell of a lot of freedom in this rock and roll circus... it's where all the freaks go - it's the environment for me.
Brian Molko -
[The Freedom of Information Act is] the Taj Mahal of the Doctrine of Unanticipated Consequences, the Sistine Chapel of Cost-Benefit Analysis Ignored.
Antonin Scalia -
I wish to have no connection with any ship that does not sail fast; for I intend to go in harm's way.
John Paul Jones -
It is true you cannot eat freedom and you cannot power machinery with democracy. But then neither can political prisoners turn on the light in the cells of a dictatorship.
Corazon Aquino -
I know of no country in which there is so little independence of mind and real freedom of discussion as in America.
Alexis de Tocqueville -
The world's problem is not too many people, but lack of political and economic freedom.
Julian Simon -
Democracy consists of choosing your dictators, after they've told you what you think it is you want to hear.
Alan Coren -
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 -
The bigger the information media, the less courage and freedom they follow. Bigness means weakness.
Eric Sevareid -
In a democracy dissent is an act of faith. Like medicine, the test of its value is not in its taste, but in its effects.
J. William Fulbright -
All we have of freedom All we use or know This our fathers bought for us Long and long ago
Rudyard Kipling -
I am involved in a freedom ride protesting the loss of the minority rights belonging to the few remaining earthbound stars. All we demanded was our right to twinkle.
Marilyn Monroe -
True human goodness, in all its purity and freedom, can come to the fore only when its recipient has no power.
Milan Kundera -
Since a politician never believes what he says, he is quite surprised to be taken at his word.
Charles de Gaulle -
A free spirit takes liberties even with liberty itself.
Francis Picabia -
We would all like to vote for the best man but he is never a candidate.
Kin Hubbard -
America's greatness has been the greatness of a free people who shared certain moral commitments. Freedom without moral commitment is aimless and promptly self-destructive.
John W. Gardner -
Freedom is fragile and must be protected. To sacrifice it, even as a temporary measure, is to betray it.
Germaine Greer -
Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained.
James A. Garfield -
Give a man a free hand and he'll run it all over you.
Mae West -
Revolution! The people howls and cries, Freedom, thats what were needing! Weve needed it for centuries, our arteries are bleeding. The stage is shaking, the audience rock. The whole thing is over by nine oclock.
Kurt Tucholsky -
Freedom of expression is the matrix, the indispensable condition, of nearly every other form of freedom.
Benjamin Cardozo -
I've never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It's probably because they have forgotten their own.
Margaret Atwood -
Freedom in general may be defined as the absence of obstacles to the realization of desires.
Bertrand Russell -
Somewhere between chance and mystery lies imagination, the only thing that protects our freedom, despite the fact that people keep trying to reduce it or kill it off altogether.
Luis Buñuel -
Liberty is the possibility of doubting, the possibility of making a mistake, the possibility of searching and experimenting, the possibility of saying No to any authority - literary, artistic, philosophic, religious, social and even political.
Ignazio Silone -
There can be no friendship where there is no freedom. Friendship loves a free air, and will not be fenced up in straight and narrow enclosures.
William Penn -
Well, if crime fighters fight crime and fire fighters fight fire, what do freedom fighters fight? They never mention that part to us, do they?
George Carlin -
The highest patriotism is not a blind acceptance of official policy, but a love of one's country deep enough to call her to a higher plain.
George McGovern -
Laws protecting the United States flag do not cut away at the freedom of speech guaranteed in the First Amendment... Congress made this position clear upon passage of the Flag Protection Act of 1989, which prohibited desecration of the flag.
Larry Craig -
If happiness truly consisted in physical ease and freedom from care, then the happiest individual would not be either a man or a woman; it would be, I think, an American cow.
William Lyon Phelps -
Take young researchers, put them together in virtual seclusion, give them an unprecedented degree of freedom and turn up the pressure by fostering competitiveness.
James D. Watson -
The only thing money gives you is the freedom of not worrying about money.
Johnny Carson -
There is no such thing as part freedom.
Nelson Mandela -
Men may die, but the fabrics of free institutions remains unshaken.
Chester A. Arthur -
Individuality is the aim of political liberty. By leaving the citizen as much freedom of action and of being as comports with order and the rights of others, the institutions render him truly a freeman. He is left to pursue his means of happiness in his own manner.
James F. Cooper -
When there is state there can be no freedom, but when there is freedom there will be no state.
Vladimir Lenin -
In liberal democracy and anxious anarchy, the traditional classic dance, compact of aristocratic authority and absolute freedom in a necessity of order, has never been so promising as an independent expression as it is today.
Lincoln Kirstein -
Pornography is human imagination in tense theatrical action; its violations are a protest against the violations of our freedom by nature.
Camille Paglia -
We must plan for freedom, and not only for security, if for no other reason than that only freedom can make security secure.
Karl Popper -
No people in history have ever survived who thought they could protect their freedom by making themselves inoffensive to their enemies.
Dean Acheson -
Democracy means not "I am as good as you are" but "You are as good as I am.".
Theodore Parker -
The road to freedom must be uphill, even if it is arduous and frustrating.
Andrew Goodman -
"It can't happen here" is number one on the list of famous last words.
David Crosby -
Men who want to support women in our struggle for freedom and justice should understand that it is not terrifically important to us that they learn to cry; it is important to us that they stop the crimes of violence against us.
Andrea Dworkin -
Freedom is a system based on courage.
Charles Peguy -
Individuality is freedom lived.
John Dos Passos -
We have a natural right to make use of our pens as of our tongue, at our peril, risk and hazard.
Voltaire -
With hearts fortified with these animating reflections, we most solemnly, before God and the world, declare, that, exerting the utmost energy of those powers, which our beneficent Creator hath graciously bestowed upon us, the arms we have compelled by our enemies to assume, we will, in defiance of every hazard, with unabating firmness and perseverance employ for the preservation of our liberties; being with one mind resolved to die freemen rather than to live as slaves.
John Dickinson -
What is freedom? Freedom is the right to choose: the right to create for oneself the alternatives of choice.
Archibald MacLeish -
The case for freedom, the case for our constitutional principles the case for our heritage has to be made anew in each generation. The work of freedom is never done.
Anthony Kennedy -
Let me reassure that the Kingdom of Cambodia a country with independence, neutrality, peace, freedom, democracy and human rights as you all have seen, shall be existing with no end.
Hun Sen -
You have spent many lives and much treasure to bring freedom to many lands that were reluctant to receive it. And here you have a people who won it by themselves and need only the help to preserve it.
Corazon Aquino -
There is nothing wrong with intellectual differences flowing from freedom of thought as long as such differences remain confined to intellectual debates.
Pervez Musharraf -
From the equality of rights springs identity of our highest interests; you cannot subvert your neighbor's rights without striking a dangerous blow at your own.
Carl Schurz -
Ultimately we know deeply that the other side of every fear is freedom.
Marilyn Ferguson -
As soon as laws are necessary for men, they are no longer fit for freedom.
Pythagoras -
The first element of greatness is fundamental humbleness (this should not be confused with servility); the second is freedom from self; the third is intrepid courage, which, taken in its widest interpretation, generally goes with truth; and the fourth-the power of love-although I have put it last, is the rarest.
Margot Asquith -
He who believes in freedom of the will has never loved and never hated.
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach -
The free press is the mother of all our liberties and of our progress under liberty.
Adlai E. Stevenson -
Freedom is the only law which genius knows.
James Russell Lowell -
Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.
Martin Luther King Jr. -
The fundamental sense of freedom is freedom from chains, from imprisonment, from enslavement by others. The rest is extension of this sense, or else metaphor.
Isaiah Berlin -
Rules and models destroy genius and art.
William Hazlitt -
Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves; and under the rule of a just God, cannot long retain it.
Abraham Lincoln -
None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free.
Pearl S. Buck -
There's only one free person in this society, and he is white and male.
Hazel Scott -
At least one way of measuring the freedom of any society is the amount of comedy that is permitted, and clearly a healthy society permits more satirical comment than a repressive, so that if comedy is to function in some way as a safety release then it must obviously deal with these taboo areas. This is part of the responsibility we accord our licensed jesters, that nothing be excused the searching light of comedy. If anything can survive the probe of humour it is clearly of value, and conversely all groups who claim immunity from laughter are claiming special privileges which should not be granted.
Eric Idle -
A prison cell, in which one waits, hopes...and is completely dependent on the fact that the door of freedom has to be opened from the outside, is not a bad picture of Advent.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer -
Perfect freedom is as necessary to the health and vigor of commerce as it is to the health and vigor of citizenship.
Patrick Henry -
Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because men are equally free, they claim to be absolutely equal.
Aristotle -
Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.
Karl Marx -
Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired, but by controlling the desire.
Epictetus -
No protracted war can fail to endanger the freedom of a democratic country.
Alexis de Tocqueville -
Freedom - to walk free and own no superior.
Walt Whitman -
What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage.
Bruce Barton -
Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have.
Harry Emerson Fosdick -
Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.
Epictetus -
I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it.
Voltaire -
The function of the law is not to provide justice or to preserve freedom. The function of the law is to keep those who hold power, in power.
Gerry Spence -
The state tends to expand in proportion to its means of existence and to live beyond its means, and these are, in the last analysis, nothing but the substance of the people. Woe to the people that cannot limit the sphere of action of the state! Freedom, private enterprise, wealth, happiness, independence, personal dignity, all vanish.
Frederic Bastiat -
In my youth I stressed freedom, and in my old age I stress order. I have made the great discovery that liberty is a product of order.
Will Durant -
Heresy is another word for freedom of thought.
Graham Greene -
Man should be master of his environment, not its slave. That is what freedom means.
Anthony Eden -
Running away will never make you free.
Kenny Loggins -
No man has received from nature the right to give orders to others. Freedom is a gift from heaven, and every individual of the same species has the right to enjoy it as soon as he is in enjoyment of his reason.
Denis Diderot -
The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency.
Aldous Huxley -
If liberty has any meaning it means freedom to improve.
Philip Wylie -
Freedom is from within.
Frank Lloyd Wright -
Amending the U.S. Constitution, the document most sacred to those who love freedom and liberty, is a delicate endeavor and should be done only on the basis of the most clear and convincing evidence that a proposed amendment is necessary.
Ben Nelson -
When the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free and was never free again.
Edith Hamilton -
Freedom of the press is not an end in itself but a means to the end of a free society.
Felix Frankfurter -
Every general increase of freedom is accompanied by some degeneracy, attributable to the same causes as the freedom.
Charles Horton Cooley -
It is often easier to become outraged by injustice half a world away than by oppression and discrimination half a block from home.
Carl T. Rowan -
We should silence anyone who opposes the right to freedom of speech.
Boyle Roche -
The wild, cruel beast is not behind the bars of the cage. He is in front of it.
Axel Munthe -
The free man is he who does not fear to go to the end of his thought.
Leon Blum -
The more decisions that you are forced to make alone, the more you are aware of your freedom to choose.
Thornton Wilder -
The secret to happiness is freedom... And the secret to freedom is courage.
Thucydides -
One of the qualities of liberty is that, as long as it is being striven after, it goes on expanding. Therefore, the man who stands in the midst of the struggle and says, 'I have it,' merely shows by doing so that he has just lost it.
Henrik Ibsen -
A filmmaker has almost the same freedom as a novelist has when he buys himself some paper.
Stanley Kubrick -
All, too, will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will to be rightful must be reasonable; that the minority possess their equal rights, which equal law must protect, and to violate would be oppression.
Thomas Jefferson -
Fashion is an imposition, a reign on freedom.
Golda Meir -
There are those who will say that the liberation of humanity, the freedom of man and mind is nothing but a dream. They are right. It is the American Dream.
Archibald MacLeish -
Bad men cannot make good citizens. It is when a people forget God that tyrants forge their chains. A vitiated state of morals, a corrupted public conscience, is incompatible with freedom. No free government, or the blessings of liberty, can be preserved to any people but by a firm adherence to justice, moderation, temperance, frugality, and virtue; and by a frequent recurrence to fundamental principles.
Patrick Henry -
There can be no real freedom without the freedom to fail.
Erich Fromm -
Punk is musical freedom. It's saying, doing and playing what you want. In Webster's terms, 'nirvana' means freedom from pain, suffering and the external world, and that's pretty close to my definition of Punk Rock.
Kurt Cobain -
No freeman shall be debarred the use of arms.
Thomas Jefferson -
I regard freedom of expression as the primary right without which one can not have a proper functioning democracy.
Lord Hailsham -
They can only set free men free... And there is no need of that: Free men set themselves free.
James Oppenheim -
We have believed - and we do believe now - that freedom is indivisible, that peace is indivisible, that economic prosperity is indivisible
Indira Gandhi -
No matter what a man does, he is not fully sane or human unless there is a spirit of freedom in him, a soul unconfined by purpose and larger than the practicable world.
Charles Horton Cooley -
The State is the altar of political freedom and, like the religious altar, it is maintained for the purpose of human sacrifice.
Emma Goldman -
The most important issue we have to deal with is freedom of movement.
Anna Lindh -
War - hard apprenticeship of freedom.
Edward Everett Hale -
The people must fight for their laws as for their walls.
Heraclitus -
Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both.
Benjamin Franklin -
Hero-worship is strongest where there is least regard for human freedom.
Herbert Spencer -
I shall stand for freedom of thought and expression in a place where it has been trampled and penalized.
Jalal Talabani -
Freedom comes from strength and self-reliance.
Lisa Murkowski -
We must defend freedom of expression and if I had to chose, I prefer the excess of caricature over the excess of censure.
Nicolas Sarkozy -
Freedom is the oxygen without which science cannot breathe.
David Sarnoff -
Emancipation from the bondage of the soil is no freedom for the tree.
Rabindranath Tagore -
Responsibility is the price of freedom.
Elbert Hubbard -
A hungry man is not a free man.
Adlai E. Stevenson -
The patriot's blood is the seed of Freedom's tree.
Thomas Campbell -
Freedom of love is freedom to say yes to many lovers.
Brigitte Boisselier -
All the citizens of a state cannot be equally powerful, but they may be equally free
Voltaire -
As freedom-loving people across the globe hope for an end to tyranny, we will never forget the enormous suffering of the Holocaust.
Bob Beauprez -
From the suites of Davos to the streets of Seattle, there is a growing consensus that globalization must now be reshaped to reflect values broader than simply the freedom of capital
John J. Sweeney -
The theme is the theme of humiliation, which is the square root of sin, as opposed to the freedom from humiliation, and love, which is the square root of wonderful.
Carson McCullers -
The search for human freedom can never be complete without freedom for women.
Betty Ford -
If the women of the United States, with their free schools and all their enlarged liberties, are not superior to women brought up under monarchical forms of government, then there is no good in liberty.
Anna Howard Shaw -
The men and women who serve in our military have won for us every hour we live in freedom, sometimes at the expense of the very hours of the lifetimes they had hoped to live.
Bob Riley -
Too many people expect wonders from democracy, when the most wonderful thing of all is just having it.
Walter Winchell -
You have riches and freedom here but I feel no sense of faith or direction. You have so many computers, why don't you use them in the search for love?
Lech Walesa -
Time misspent in youth is sometimes all the freedom one ever has.
Anita Brookner -
There never was a war that was not inward; I must fight till I have conquered in myself what causes war.
Marianne Moore -
To be free is to have achieved your life.
Tennessee Williams -
Freedom from the desire for an answer is essential to the understanding of a problem.
Jiddu Krishnamurti -
Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
I am as free as nature first made man, Ere the base laws of servitude began, When wild in woods the noble savage ran.
John Dryden -
It's a poor kind of man that won't fight for his own freedom.
Alice Childress -
Don't ever dare to take your college as a matter of course - because, like democracy and freedom, many people you'll never know have broken their hearts to get it for you.
Alice Miller -
The oppression of any people for opinion's sake has rarely had any other effect than to fix those opinions deeper and render them more important.
Hosea Ballou -
Those who desire to give up freedom in order to gain security will not have, nor do they deserve, either one.
Benjamin Franklin -
Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others.
Albert Camus -
A forest bird never wants a cage.
Henrik Ibsen -
For good and evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a world in continuous creation and therefore continuous change and insecurity.
Joyce Cary -
Freedom is a lonely battle, but if the United States doesn't lead it - sometimes imperfectly, but mostly with honor - who will?
Cal Thomas -
Civilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity.
Will Durant -
We have to call it "freedom": who'd want to die for "a lesser tyranny"
Mignon McLaughlin -
America has never seen itself as a national state like all others, but rather as an experiment in human freedom and democracy.
Brent Scowcroft -
All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to = remain silent.
Thomas Jefferson -
Marxism has not only failed to promote human freedom, it has failed to produce food.
John Dos Passos -
Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth
John Fitzgerald Kennedy -
Democracy has proved only that the best way to gain power over people is to assure the people that they are ruling themselves. Once they believe that, they make wonderfully submissive slaves.
Joseph Sobran -
Everywhere that freedom stirs, let tyrants fear.
George W. Bush -
We need to guarantee equal rights and civil rights and say that, here in America, workers have the right to organize - women have the right to choose - and justice belongs to everyone regardless of race or gender or sexual orientation
Senator John Kerry -
Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err. It passes my comprehension how human beings, be they ever so experienced and able, can delight in depriving other human beings of that precious right.
Mahatma Gandhi -
Three simple words - freedom, justice and honesty. These sum up what the Liberal Democrats stand for.
Charles Kennedy -
Those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace.
Buddha -
We know the road to freedom has always been stalked by death.
Angela Davis -
A nation which makes the final sacrifice for life and freedom does not get beaten.
Kemal Ataturk -
The man least dependent upon the morrow goes to meet the morrow most cheerfully.
Epicurus -
All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. All these aspirations are directed toward ennobling man's life, lifting it from the sphere of mere physical existence and leading the individual towards freedom.
Albert Einstein -
Men are created different; they lose their social freedom and their individual autonomy in seeking to become like each other.
David Riesman -
I am not a number, I am a free man!
Patrick McGoohan -
The sound of tireless voices is the price we pay for the right to hear the music of our own opinions.
Adlai Stevenson I -
Better to starve free than be a fat slave
Aesop -
Giving up even an ounce of precious freedom is a very serious thing to do.
Charles Schumer -
What better day to lay the cornerstone of the Freedom Tower than the day our country declared its independence.
George Pataki -
The moment the slave resolves that he will no longer be a slave, his fetters fall. Freedom and slavery are mental states.
Mahatma Gandhi -
The Constitution is the sole source and guaranty of national freedom.
Calvin Coolidge -
I know but one freedom, and that is the freedom of the mind.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery -
The cause of freedom is the cause of God.
Samuel Bowles -
We who officially value freedom of speech above life itself seem to have nothing to talk about but the weather.
Barbara Ehrenreich -
Man is a being with free will; therefore, each man is potentially good or evil, and it's up to him and only him (through his reasoning mind) to decide which he wants to be.
Ayn Rand -
There is nothing more wonderful than freedom of speech.
Ilya Ehrenburg -
The voice of protest, of warning, of appeal is never more needed than when the clamor of fife and drum, echoed by the press and too often by the pulpit, is bidding all men fall in and keep step and obey in silence the tyrannous word of command. Then, more than ever, it is the duty of the good citizen not to be silent.
Charles Eliot Norton -
Freedom of inquiry, freedom of discussion, and freedom of teaching - without these a university cannot exist
Robert Maynard Hutchins -
Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.
Soren Kierkegaard -
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 Fitzgerald Kennedy -
History suggests that capitalism is a necessary condition for political freedom
Milton Friedman -
It is easy to take liberty for granted when you have never had it taken from you.
M. Grundler -
Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.
E. B. White -
Freedom from effort in the present merely means that there has been effort stored up in the past.
Theodore Roosevelt -
A hero is someone who understands the responsibility that comes with his freedom.
Bob Dylan -
The United Nations is designed to make possible lasting freedom and independence for all its members.
Harry S. Truman -
One should never put on one's best trousers to go out to fight for freedom.
Henrik Ibsen -
The worst enemy of truth and freedom in our society is the compact majority.
Henrik Ibsen -
Who then is free? The one who wisely is lord of themselves, who neither poverty, death or captivity terrify, who is strong to resist his appetites and shun honors, and is complete in themselves smooth and round like a globe
Horace -
He that complies against his will is of his own opinion still.
Samuel Butler -
Freedom rings where opinions clash.
Adlai E. Stevenson -
What then is freedom? The power to live as one wishes.
Marcus Tullius Cicero -
Freedom from worries and surcease from strain are illusions that always inhabit the distance.
Edwin Way Teale -
Many free countries have lost their liberty, and ours may lose hers; but, if she shall, be it my proudest plume, not that I was the last to desert, but that I never deserted her.
Abraham Lincoln -
All of us, from time to time, need a plunge into freedom and novelty, after which routine and discipline will seem delightful by contrast
Andre Maurois -
The general interest of the masses might take the place of the insight of genius if it were allowed freedom of action.
Denis Diderot -
To be what no one ever was, to be what everyone has been: Freedom is the mean of those extremes that fence all effort in.
Mark Van Doren -
Only free men can negotiate; prisoners cannot enter into contracts. Your freedom and mine cannot be separated.
Nelson Mandela -
Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction.
Ronald Reagan -
Real freedom lies in wildness, not in civilization.
Charles Lindbergh -
He who dares not (reason), is a slave.
William Drummond -
We believe faith and freedom must be our guiding stars, for they show us truth, they make us brave, give us hope, and leave us wiser than we were.
Ronald Reagan -
There is such a thing as perfection...and our purpose for living is to find that perfection and show it forth....Each of us is in truth an unlimited idea of freedom. Everything that limits us we have to put aside.
Richard Bach -
We are all of us the worse for too much liberty.
Terence -
Since the general civilization of mankind, I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.
James Madison -
It is not the simple statement of facts that ushers in freedom; it is the constant repetition of them that has this liberating effect. Tolerance is the result not of enlightenment, but of boredom.
Quentin Crisp -
Freedom begins as we become conscious of it.
Vernon Howard -
No dictator, no invader, can hold an imprisoned population by force of arms forever. There is no greater power in the universe than the need for freedom. Against that power, governments and tyrants and armies cannot stand
J. Michael Straczynski -
Where wealth and freedom reign contentment fails, And honour sinks where commerce long prevails.
Oliver Goldsmith -
In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I do not shrink from this responsibility—I welcome it.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy -
Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy -
No amount of political freedom will satisfy the hungry masses.
Vladimir Lenin -
We buy our way out of jail but we can't buy freedom, We buy a lot of clothes when we don't really need them, Things we buy to cover up what's inside.
Kanye West -
Freedom means you are unobstructed in living your life as you choose. Anything less is a form of slavery.
Wayne Dyer -
All men have equal rights to liberty, to their property, and to the protection of the laws
Voltaire -
For in the end, freedom is a personal and lonely battle; and one faces down fears of today so that those of tomorrow might be engaged.
Alice Walker -
The very idea of freedom incites fear in the hearts of terrorists across the world.
Elizabeth Dole -
Too much tail. All that jewelry weighs it down. Like vanity. Can't nobody fly with all that shit. Wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.
Toni Morrison -
Freedom is the right to live as we wish.
Epictetus -
I know what you're going to say! 'They are men, and men should be free.' A free man is dangerous to himself and everyone else. Freedom should be left to those who can put it to good use..
Dave Sim -
The desire of gold is not for gold. It is for the means of freedom and benefit.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
There are only two kinds of freedom in the world; the freedom of the rich and powerful, and the freedom of the artist and the monk who renounces possessions.
Anais Nin -
After I asked him what he meant, he replied that freedom consisted of the unimpeded right to get rich, to use his ability, no matter what the cost to others, to win advancement.
Norman Thomas -
I know why the caged bird sings.
Maya Angelou -
In health there is freedom. Health is the first of all liberties.
Henri Frederic Amiel -
Analysis does not set out to make pathological reactions impossible, but to give the patient's ego freedom to decide one way or another.
Sigmund Freud -
Freedom is not something that anybody can be given; Freedom is something that people take and people are as free as they want to be.
James Arthur Baldwin -
That it is better 100 guilty Persons should escape than that one innocent Person should suffer, is a Maxim that has been long and generally approved.
Benjamin Franklin -
Our task must be to free ourselves... by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and it's beauty.
Albert Einstein -
So far as discipline is concerned, freedom means not its absence but the use of higher and more rational forms as contrasted with those that are lower or less rational.
Charles Horton Cooley