Freedom Quotes

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
Since the Exodus, freedom has always spoken with a Hebrew accent.
Heinrich Heine
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
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
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)
Real freedom lies in wildness, not in civilization.
Charles Lindbergh
Antoine de saint - exupery - i know but one freedom, and that is the freedom...
I believe that God has planted in every human heart the desire to live in freedom. And even when that desire is crushed by tyranny for decades, it will rise again.
George W. Bush, State of the Union address, January 20, 2004
We stand for freedom. That is our conviction for ourselves; that is our only commitment to others.
John F. Kennedy
Mark twain, following the equator (1897) - it is by the goodness of god that in our country...
I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.
James Madison
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)
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
Politics is the art of achieving the maximum amount of freedom for individuals that is consistent with the maintenance of social order.
Barry Goldwate
We must face the fact that the preservation of individual freedom is incompatible with a full satisfaction of our views of distributive justice.
Friedrich August von Hayek
All we have of freedom - - All we use or know - - This our fathers bought for us, long and long ago.
Kipling
Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.
Mahatma Gandhi
Men want the same thing from women that they want from their underwear... a little support, comfort, and freedom.
Jerry Seinfeld
Freedom of expression is the matrix, the indispensable condition, of nearly every other form of freedom.
Benjamin Cardozo
Walter lippmann - when men are brought face to face with their...
In the cage there is food, not much, but there is food - Outside are only great stretches of freedom.
Nicanor Parra
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
Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained.
James A. Garfield, July 12, 1880
In a free state there should be freedom of speech and thought.
Tiberius
I believe that freedom is the deepest need of every human soul.
George W. Bush, Press Conference, White House, Tuesday, April 13, 2004
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".
Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure.
Bertrand Russell
Freedom is one of the deepest and noblest aspirations of the human spirit.
Ronald Reagan
Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press and that cannot be limited without being lost.
Thomas Jefferson
There is nothing more wonderful than freedom of speech.
Ilya Ehrenburg
Conformity is the jailer of freedom, and the enemy of growth.
John F. Kennedy
The outward freedom that we shall attain will only be in exact proportion to the inward freedom to which we may have grown at a given moment. And if this is a correct view of freedom, our chief energy must be concentrated on achieving reform from within.
Mahatma Gandhi
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
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
People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.
Soren Kierkegaard
Only free men can negotiate; prisoners cannot enter into contracts. Your freedom and mine cannot be separated.
Nelson Mandela
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
Without freedom from the past, there is no freedom at all, because the mind is never new, fresh, innocent.
Krishnamurti
In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from.
Peter Ustinov
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