Freedom Quotes

Milton friedman - a society that puts equality... ahead of freedom...
Albert einstein - laws alone can not secure freedom of expression;...
Conformity is the jailer of freedom, and the enemy of growth.
John F. Kennedy
Zell mille - it is the soldier who salutes the flag, serves...
The freedom of all is essential to my freedom.
Mikhail Bakunin
We first have to find the way of freedom from involvement before we can introduce freedom in involvement.
Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan
I love freedom for what I can do with it, I hate freedom for what I have done with it.
Christian Longe
The case for trade is not just monetary, but moral. Economic freedom creates habits of liberty. And habits of liberty create expectations of democracy.
George W. Bush, speech, November 19, 1999
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
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
The greatest lesson we can learn from the past... is that freedom is at the core of every successful nation in the world.
Frederick Chiluba
Land and Freedom!
Emiliano Zapata
The aim of sadism is to transform a man into a thng, something animate into something inanimate, since by complete and absolute control the living loses one essential quality of life - Freedom.
Erich Fromm
America does not go abroad in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well - wisher to freedom and independence of all. She is the champion and vindicator only of her own.
John Quincy Adams
The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear.
Aung San Suu Kyi
Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants it is the creed of slaves.
William Pitt
Ultimately we know deeply that the other side of fear is a freedom.
Marilyn Ferguson
I should wish to see a world in which education aimed at mental freedom rather than imprisoning the minds of the young in a rigid armor of dogma calculated to protect them though life against the shafts of impartial evidence.
Bertrand Russell, "Why I am Not a Christian".
When an American says that he loves his country, he... means that he loves an inner air, an inner light in which freedom lives and in which a man can draw the breath of self - Respect.
Adlai Ewing Stevenson
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
Freedom means the opportunity to be what we never thought we would be.
Daniel J. Boorstin
The bigger the information media, the less courage and freedom they allow. Bigness means weakness.
Eric Sevareid
Statesmen may plan and speculate for liberty but it is religion and morality alone that can establish the principles upon which freedom can securely stand.
John Adams
Thou canst not touch the freedom of my mind.
John Milton
All we have of freedom - - All we use or know - - This our fathers bought for us, long and long ago.
Rudyard Kipling
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 the right to be wrong, not the right to do wrong.
John G. Riefenbake
Freedom is one of the deepest and noblest aspirations of the human spirit.
Ronald Reagan
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 of them.
Mark Twain, Following the Equator (1897)
Since the Exodus, freedom has always spoken with a Hebrew accent.
Heinrich Heine
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
Europe is spreading its wings. In freedom. In prosperity. And in peace. It is a truly proud moment for the European Union. It is a triumph for liberty and democracy. To our new members I say: ? Warmly welcome to our family?. Our new Europe is born.
Anders Fogh Rasmussen, (Prime Minister of Denmark) Family photo after the European Council meeting in Copenhagen, 13 December 20
None can love freedom heartily but good men the rest love not freedom, but license.
John Milton
The very idea of freedom presupposes some objective moral law which overarches rulers and ruled alike.
C. S. Lewis, The Poison of Subjectivism (from Christian Reflections; p. 108)
Freedom of speech and freedom of action are meaningless without freedom to think. And there is no freedom of thought without doubt.
Bergen Evans
Without freedom, no art art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others.
Albert Camus
God is not merely interestd in the freedom of brown men, yellow men, red men and black men. He is interested in the freedom of the whole human race.
Martin Luther King Jr.
A free press can of course be good or bad, but, most certainly, without freedom it will never be anything but bad.... Freedom is nothing else but a chance to bet better, whereas enslavement is a certainty of the worse.
Albert Camus, Resistance, Rebellion and Death (1960)
We gain freedom when we have paid the full price...
Rabindranath Tagore
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 of them.
Mark Twain