Freedom Quotes
A man should never put on his best trousers when he goes out to battle for freedom and truth.Henrik Ibsen
The more freedom we enjoy, the greater the responsibility we bear, toward others as well as ourselves.Oscar Arias Sanchez
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
Freedom, then, lies only in our innate human capacity to choose between different sorts of bondage, bondage to desire or self esteem, or bondage to the light that lightens all our lives.Sri Madhava
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
Men want the same thing from women that they want from their underwear... a little support, comfort, and freedom.Jerry Seinfeld
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
Solitude is the beginning of all freedom.William Orville Douglas
Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.Mahatma Gandhi
Freedom and indedendence form my character.Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, Founder of modern Turkey 24. 04. 1921
While the State exists, there can be no freedom. When there is freedom there will be no State.Lenin, "State and Revolution", 1919
Those who would deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves; and, under a just God, cannot long retain it.Abraham Lincoln
The way to final freedom is within thy self.The Book of the Golden Precepts
Seek freedom and become captive of your desires, seek discipline and find your liberty.Frank Herbert, Dune
I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom.Bob Dylan
A democracy is two wolves and a small lamb voting on what to have for dinner. Freedom under a constitutional republic is a well armed lamb contesting the vote.Benjamin Franklin
We stand for freedom. That is our conviction for ourselves that is our only commitment to others.John F. Kennedy
God is not merely interestd in the freedom of brown men, yellow men, red men and black men. He is interested in the freedom of the whole human race.Martin Luther King Jr.
Freedom is the right to be wrong, not the right to do wrong.John G. Riefenbake
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 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
All great things are simple, and many can be expressed in single words: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.Sir Winston Churchill
The freedom of poetic license.Cicero, Pro Publio Sestio
We gain freedom when we have paid the full price...Rabindranath Tagore
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)
By interpreting freedom as the propagation and immediate gratification of needs, people distort their own nature, for they engender in themselves a multitude of pointless and foolish desires, habits, and incongruous stratagems. Their lives are motivated only by mutual envy, sensuality, and ostentation.Fyodor Dostoevsky
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
The moment we choose to love we begin to move towards freedom...Bell Hooks
All we have of freedom - - All we use or know - - This our fathers bought for us, long and long ago.Rudyard Kipling
None can love freedom heartily but good men the rest love not freedom, but license.John Milton
Freedom is that instant between when someone tells you to do something and when you decide how to respond.Dr. Jeffrey Borenstein
This institution will be based upon the illimitable freedom of the human mind. For here we are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead, nor to tolerate any error so long as reason is left free to combat it.Thomas Jefferson
Thou canst not touch the freedom of my mind.John Milton
Power in defense of freedom is greater than power on behalf of tyranny and oppression.Malcolm X
Children should be educated and instructed in the principles of freedom.John Adams
Just living is not enough, said the Butterfly. One must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.Hans Christian Anderson
In a free state there should be freedom of speech and thought.Tiberius
