Freedom Quotes

Jack handey deep thoughts - even though i was their captive, the indians...
Milton friedman - a society that puts equality... ahead of freedom...
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
The moment we choose to love we begin to move towards freedom...
Bell Hooks
As it is an ancient truth that freedom cannot be legislated into existence, so it is no less obvious that freedom cannot be censored into existence.
Dwight D Eisenhowe
Freedom is nothing else but a chance to be better.
Albert Camus
Those who would deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves; and, under a just God, cannot long retain it.
Abraham Lincoln
Thou canst not touch the freedom of my mind.
John Milton
None can love freedom heartily but good men the rest love not freedom, but license.
John Milton
The freedom of all is essential to my freedom.
Mikhail Bakunin
History suggests that Capitalism is a necessary condition for political freedom.
Milton Friedman
The bigger the information media, the less courage and freedom they allow. Bigness means weakness.
Eric Sevareid
The willingness to sacrifice is the prelude to freedom.
Pesach Sede
Only necessity understood, and bondage to the highest is identical with true freedom.
William James
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 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
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
The path we have chosen for the present is full of hazards, as all paths are. ... The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission. Announcing blockade of Cuba.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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 Fitzgerald Kennedy
In human life, art may arise from almost any activity, and once it does so, it is launched on a long road of exploration, invention, freedom to the limits of extravagance, interference to the point of frustration, finally discipline, controlling constant change and growth.
Susanne Lange
In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed it must be achieved.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
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
The right to be let alone is indeed the beginning of all freedom.
Justice William O. Douglas
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
The more freedom we enjoy, the greater the responsibility we bear, toward others as well as ourselves.
Oscar Arias Sanchez
I want freedom for the full expression on my personality.
Mahatma Gandhi
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
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
Solitude is the beginning of all freedom.
William Orville Douglas
The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear.
Aung San Suu Kyi
Liberty is the right to choose. Freedom is the result of the right choice.
Anonymous
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
Your life is the sum result of all the choices you make, both consciously and unconsciously. If you can control the process of choosing, you can take control of all aspects of your life. You can find the freedom that comes from being in charge of yourself.
Robert F. Bennett
Freedom is a package deal - with it comes responsibilities and consequences.
Author Unknown
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