Freedom Quotes

The book of the golden precepts - the way to final freedom is within thy self....
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)
But a Constitution of Government once changed from Freedom, can never be restored. Liberty, once lost, is lost forever.
John Adams
All we have of freedom - - All we use or know - - This our fathers bought for us, long and long ago.
Kipling
The more freedom we enjoy, the greater the responsibility we bear, toward others as well as ourselves.
Oscar Arias Sanchez
Freedom is the opportunity to make decisions...
Kenneth Hildebrand
Without freedom, no art art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others.
Albert Camus
Men want the same thing from women that they want from their underwear... a little support, comfort, and freedom.
Jerry Seinfeld
Ultimately we know deeply that the other side of fear is a freedom.
Marilyn Ferguson
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
Telling the truth will lead you to freedom telling the lies will lead you to slavery.
Jameson Green
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
Freedom also includes the right to mismanage your own affairs.
Author Unknown
The aim of sadism is to transform a man into a thng, something animate into something inanimate, since by complete and absolute control the living loses one essential quality of life - Freedom.
Erich Fromm
Politics is the art of achieving the maximum amount of freedom for individuals that is consistent with the maintenance of social order.
Barry Goldwate
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
We stand for freedom. That is our conviction for ourselves that is our only commitment to others.
John F. Kennedy
What do you gain, Soviet Union, from this miserable policy Where is your decency Would it be a disgrace for you to give up this battle On suppression of freedom for Jews in the USSR.
Golda Mei
Those who enjoy such freedoms as we enjoy, forget in time that men died to earn them.
Franklin 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
I know but one freedom, and that is the freedom of the mind.
Antoine de Saint - Exupery
Freedom is a package deal - with it comes responsibilities and consequences.
Author Unknown
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
Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
Hannah Arendt
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
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
Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.
Mahatma Gandhi
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
I think the highest and lowest points are the important ones. Anything else is just... in between. I want the freedom to try everything.
Jim Morrison
Conformity is the jailer of freedom, and the enemy of growth.
John F. Kennedy
Thou canst not touch the freedom of my mind.
John Milton
Those who would deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves; and, under a just God, cannot long retain it.
Abraham Lincoln
In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved.
Franklin D. Roosevelt, Speech, September 22, 1936
Just living is not enough, said the Butterfly. One must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.
Hans Christian Anderson
If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom and yet renounce controversy are people who want crops without ploughing the ground.
Frederick Douglass 1817 - 1895
There is nothing more wonderful than freedom of speech.
Ilya Ehrenburg
Freedom hath a thousand charms to show, That slaves however contented never know.
Cowpe
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
People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.
Soren Kierkegaard
After I asked him what he meant, he replied that freedom consisted of the unimpeded right to get rich, to use his ability, no matter what the cost to others, to win advancement.
Norman Thomas