Freedom Quotes
There is nothing more wonderful than freedom of speech.Ilya Ehrenburg
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
As soon as laws are necessary for men, they are no longer fit for freedom.Pythagorus
There can be no real individual freedom in the presence of economic insecurity.Chester Bowles
I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and democracy - But that could change.Dan Quayle, 5/22/89
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
Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting.Alan Dean Foster "To the Vanishing Point".
Freedom from the desire for an answer is essential to the understanding of a problem.Jiddu Krishnamurti
Laws alone can not secure freedom of expression in order that every man present his views without penalty there must be spirit of tolerance in the entire population.Albert Einstein
Freedom is a clear conscience.Periande
People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.Soren Kierkegaard
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
Never wear your best trousers when you go out to fight for freedom and truth.Henrik Ibsen
Freedom hath a thousand charms to show, That slaves however contented never know.Cowpe
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
I believe that freedom is the deepest need of every human soul.George W. Bush, Press Conference, White House, Tuesday, April 13, 2004
Art lives where absolute freedom is because when it is not, there can be no creativity.Bruce Lee
What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly... it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as Freedom should not be highly rated.Thomas Paine
Real freedom lies in wildness, not in civilization.Charles Lindbergh
Make no mistake about it: Operation Desert Storm truly was a victory of good over evil, of freedom over tyranny, of peace over war.Dan Quayle, remarks at Arlington National Cemetery
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
And that this country shall have a new birth of freedom, and that this government, of the people, for the people, by the people, shall not perish from the Earth.Abraham Lincoln, Gettysburg Address
I am old enough to know that victory is often a thing deferred, and rarely at the summit of courage... What is at the summit of courage, I think, is freedom. The freedom that comes with the knowledge that no earthly think can break you.Paula Giddings
Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.Sren Aaby Kierkegaard
Freedom is a possession of inestimable value.Cicero
The moment we choose to love we begin to move towards freedom...Bell Hooks
Coersion, after all, merely captures man. Freedom captivates him.Ronald Reagan
I do not come into this pulpit hoping that perhaps somebody will of his own free will return to Christ. My hope lies in another quarter. I hope that my Master will lay hold of some of them and say, You are mine, and you shall be mine. I claim you for myself. My hope arises from the freeness of grace, and not from the freedom of the will.Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Only free men can negotiate; prisoners cannot enter into contracts. Your freedom and mine cannot be separated.Nelson Mandela
Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press and that cannot be limited without being lost.Thomas Jefferson
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.Andrew Schneide
The idea that men are created free and equal is both true and misleading: men are created different; they lose their social freedom and their individual autonomy in seeking to become like each other.David Riesman
The right to be let alone is indeed the beginning of all freedom.Justice William O. Douglas
