Freedom Quotes
Even though I was their captive, the Indians allowed me quite a bit of freedom. I could walk about freely, make my own meals, and even hurl large rocks at their heads. It was only later that I discovered they were not Indians at all, but dirty clothes hampers.Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
People unfit for freedom - who cannot do much with it - Are hungry for power. The desire for freedom is an attribute of a have type of self. It says: leave me alone and I shall grow, learn, and realize my capacities. The desire for power is basically an attribute of a have not type of self.Eric Hoffe
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
Freedom is a clear conscience.Periande
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.Corazn Cojuangco Aquino
Telling the truth will lead you to freedom telling the lies will lead you to slavery.Jameson Green
Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than any other factor, and the contrary opinion is wishfull thinking at its worst. Breeds that forget this basic truth have always paid for it with their lives and freedoms.Robert A. Heinlein, Starship Troopers chapter 4
The deepest American dream is not the hunger for money or fame it is the dream of settling down, in peace and freedom and cooperation, in the promised land.Scott Russell Sanders
How does the Meadow flower its bloom unfold Because the lovely little flower is free Down to its root, and in that freedom bold.William Wordsworth
And so, my fellow americans: ask not what your country can do for you - Ask what you can do for your country. My fellow citizens of the world: ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man.John F. Kennedy, Inaugural address, January 20, 1961
It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either.Mark Twain
Some people surrender their freedom willingly but others are forced to surrender it. Imprisonment begins with birth. Society, parents they refuse to allow you to keep the freedom you were born with. There are subtle ways to punish a person for daring to feel. You see that everyone around you has destroyed his true feeling nature. You imitate what you see.Jim Morrison
It is the soldier who salutes the flag, serves beneath the flag, whose coffin is draped by the flag who gives that protester the freedom to abuse and burn that flag.Zell Mille
A society like ours, which professes no one religion and has allowed all religions to decay, which indulges freedom to the point of license and individualism to the point of anarchy, needs all the support that responsible, cultivated homes can furnish. I hope your generation will provide a firmer shelter for civilized standards.Alan Simpson
If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom and yet renounce controversy are people who want crops without ploughing the ground.Frederick Douglass 1817 - 1895
I am for freedom of religion, & against all maneuvres to bring about a legal ascendancy of one sect over another.Thomas Jefferson, letter to Elbridge Gerry, 1799
On that day let us solemnly remember the sacrifices of all those who fought so valiantly, on the seas, in the air, and on foreign shores, to preserve our heritage of freedom, and let us reconsecrate ourselves to the task of promoting an enduring peace so that all their efforts shall not have been in vain.Dwight D. Eisenhowe
Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.Sren Aaby Kierkegaard
There are days when solitude is a heady wine that intoxicates you with freedom, others when it is a bitter tonic, and still others when it is a poison that makes you beat your head against the wall.Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from.Peter Ustinov
Freedom, then, lies only in our innate human capacity to choose between different sorts of bondage, bondage to desire or self esteem, or bondage to the light that lightens all our lives.Sri Madhava
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 basic test of freedom is perhaps less in what we are free to do than in what we are free not to do.Eric Hoffe
Freedom is one of the deepest and noblest aspirations of the human spirit.Ronald Reagan
Freedom of the press is limited to those who own one.A. J. Liebling
We stand for freedom. That is our conviction for ourselves; that is our only commitment to others.John F. Kennedy
We hold in our hands, the most precious gift of all: Freedom. The freedom to express our art. Our love. The freedom to be who we want to be. We are not going to give that freedom away and no one shall take it from us!Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, Cicely, 1992
Freedom from the desire for an answer is essential to the understanding of a problem.Jiddu Krishnamurti
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 up to us.A. J. Toynbee
Man is tormented by no greater anxiety than to find someone quickly to whom he can hand over that great gift of freedom with which the ill - Fated creature is born.Fyodor Dostoevsky, "The Brothers Karamazov".
The secret of Happiness is Freedom, and the secret of Freedom, Courage.Thucydides
The freedom of poetic license.Cicero, Pro Publio Sestio
Solitude is the beginning of all freedom.William Orville Douglas
Freedom of speech and freedom of action are meaningless without freedom to think. And there is no freedom of thought without doubt.Bergen Evans
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
Just living is not enough, said the Butterfly. One must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.Hans Christian Anderson
For too long, many nations, including my own, tolerated, even excused, oppression in the Middle East in the name of stability. Oppression became common, but stability never arrived. We must take a different approach. We must help the reformers of the Middle East as they work for freedom, and strive to build a community of peaceful, democratic nations.George W. Bush, Speech to UN General Assembly, September 21, 2004
