Freedom Quotes

Tiberius - in a free state there should be freedom of speech...
Dwight d eisenhowe - as it is an ancient truth that freedom cannot be...
Only necessity understood, and bondage to the highest is identical with true freedom.
William James
Real freedom lies in wildness, not in civilization.
Charles Lindbergh
The freedom of all is essential to my freedom.
Mikhail Bakunin
Only free men can negotiate; prisoners cannot enter into contracts. Your freedom and mine cannot be separated.
Nelson Mandela
People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
Soren Aabye Kierkegaard
The moment we choose to love we begin to move towards freedom...
Bell Hooks
There is nothing wrong with America that the faith, love of freedom, intelligence and energy of her citizens cannot cure.
Dwight D. Eisenhowe
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
I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom.
Bob Dylan
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
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
Liberty is the right to choose. Freedom is the result of the right choice.
Anonymous
The way to final freedom is within thy self.
The Book of the Golden Precepts
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
We stand for freedom. That is our conviction for ourselves that is our only commitment to others.
John F. Kennedy
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
I love freedom for what I can do with it, I hate freedom for what I have done with it.
Christian Longe
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 F. Kennedy
We first have to find the way of freedom from involvement before we can introduce freedom in involvement.
Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan
Freedom hath a thousand charms to show, That slaves however contented never know.
Cowpe
Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.
Mahatma Gandhi
Power in defense of freedom is greater than power on behalf of tyranny and oppression.
Malcolm X
Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.
Albert Einstein
Free speech carries with it some freedom to listen.
Bob Marley
None can love freedom heartily but good men the rest love not freedom, but license.
John Milton
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)
The willingness to sacrifice is the prelude to freedom.
Pesach Sede
Freedom means the opportunity to be what we never thought we would be.
Daniel J. Boorstin
The more freedom we enjoy, the greater the responsibility we bear, toward others as well as ourselves.
Oscar Arias Sanchez
Freedom is from within.
Frank Lloyd Wright
Never wear your best trousers when you go out to fight for freedom and truth.
Henrik Ibsen
If happiness truly consisted of physical ease and freedom from care, then the happiest individual would not be either a man or a woman; it would be, I think, an American cow.
William Lyon Phelps
When men are brought face to face with their opponents, forced to listen and learn and mend their ideas, they cease to be children and savages and begin to live like civilized men. Then only is freedom a reality, when men may voice their opinions because they must examine their opinions.
Walter Lippmann