Freedom Quotes

The measure of a society is found in how they treat their weakest and most helpless citizens. As Americans, we are blessed with circumstances that protect our human rights and our religious freedom, but for many people around the world, deprivation and persecution have become a way of life.

Jimmy Carte

They do not leave home without American Express. ... Blame the moral carelessness that parents pass off as the gift of freedom as they cut their children loose like colorful kites and wish them an exciting flight.

Roger Rosenblatt

Men want the same thing from women and their underwear: support, comfort, and freedom.

Jerry Seinfeld, Seinfeld

Until you lose your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was or what freedom really is.

Margaret Mitchell

Freedom of expression is the matrix, the indispensable condition, of nearly every other form of freedom.

Benjamin Cardozo

There can be no real freedom without the freedom to fail.

Erich Fromm

All we have of freedom - - All we use or know - - This our fathers bought for us, long and long ago.

Rudyard Kipling

Freedom is the right to be wrong, not the right to do wrong.

John G. Riefenbake

I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and democracy - But that could change.

Dan Quayle, 5/22/89

Freedom is the right to say two plus two make four. If granted, all else follows.

George Orwell

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)

Ultimately we know deeply that the other side of every fear is a freedom.

Marilyn Ferguson

Those who enjoy such freedoms as we enjoy, forget in time that men died to earn them.

Franklin Roosevelt

The right to be let alone is indeed the beginning of all freedom.

Justice William O. Douglas

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)

We gain freedom when we have paid the full price...

Rabindranath Tagore

In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed it must be achieved.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Freedom is a package deal - with it comes responsibilities and consequences.

Author Unknown

Without freedom from the past, there is no freedom at all, because the mind is never new, fresh, innocent.

Krishnamurti

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. The Centauri learned this lesson once. We will teach it to them again. Though it take a thousand years, we will be free.

J. Michael Straczynski

There can be no real individual freedom in the presence of economic insecurity.

Chester Bowles

As soon as laws are necessary for men, they are no longer fit for freedom.

Pythagorus

Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press and that cannot be limited without being lost.

Thomas Jefferson

The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear.

Aung San Suu Kyi

All great things are simple, and many can be expressed in single words: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.

Sir Winston Churchill

The desire for freedom resides in every human heart. And that desire cannot be contained forever by prison walls, or martial laws, or secret police. Over time, and across the Earth, freedom will find a way.

George W. Bush, Speech to UN General Assembly, September 21, 2004

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

In the cage there is food, not much, but there is food - Outside are only great stretches of freedom.

Nicanor Parra

I express many absurd opinions, but I am not the first man to do it American freedom consists largely in talking nonsense.

Edgar Watson Howe

They have exiled me now from their society and I am pleased, because humanity does not exile except the one whose noble spirit rebels against despotism and oppression. He who does not prefer exile to slavery is not free by any measure of freedom, truth and duty.

Kahil Gibran, Spirits Rebellious

America is just the country that shows how all the written guarantees in the world for freedom are no protection against tyranny and oppression of the worst kind. There the politician has come to be looked upon as the very scum of society.

Peter Kropotkin

Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting.

Alan Dean Foster "To the Vanishing Point".

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

The elective system... offered a bewildering freedom of choice, leaving some graduates with the impression that they had nibbled at dozens of canaps of knowledge and never had their fill.

Ted Morgan

Politics is the art of achieving the maximum amount of freedom for individuals that is consistent with the maintenance of social order.

Barry Goldwate

All we have of freedom - - All we use or know - - This our fathers bought for us, long and long ago.

Kipling

But a Constitution of Government once changed from Freedom, can never be restored. Liberty, once lost, is lost forever.

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