Freedom Quotes

It is the soldier who salutes the flag, serves beneath the flag, whose coffin is draped by the flag who gives that protester the freedom to abuse and burn that flag.

Zell Mille

Whenever men take the law into their own hands, the loser is the law. And when the law loses, freedom languishes.

Robert Francis Kennedy

I should wish to see a world in which education aimed at mental freedom rather than imprisoning the minds of the young in a rigid armor of dogma calculated to protect them though life against the shafts of impartial evidence.

Bertrand Russell, "Why I am Not a Christian".

True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Even though I was their captive, the Indians allowed me quite a bit of freedom. I could walk about freely, make my own meals, and even hurl large rocks at their heads. It was only later that I discovered they were not Indians at all, but dirty clothes hampers.

Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

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

Freedom also includes the right to mismanage your own affairs.

Author Unknown

The bigger the information media, the less courage and freedom they allow. Bigness means weakness.

Eric Sevareid

In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved.

Franklin D. Roosevelt, Speech, September 22, 1936

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

History suggests that Capitalism is a necessary condition for political freedom.

Milton Friedman

Since the Exodus, freedom has always spoken with a Hebrew accent.

Heinrich Heine

There can be no real individual freedom in the presence of economic insecurity.

Chester Bowles

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

Many politicians lay it down as a self - Evident proposition, that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story, who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim.

Lord Macaulay

No dictator, no invader, can hold an imprisoned population by force of arms forever. There is no greater power in the universe than the need for freedom. Against that power, governments and tyrants and armies cannot stand. The Centauri learned this lesson once. We will teach it to them again. Though it take a thousand years, we will be free.

J. Michael Straczynski

Beyond a critical point within a finite space, freedom diminishes as numbers increase. ... The human question is not how many can possibly survive within the system, but what kind of existence is possible for those who do survive.

Frank Herbert, Dune

The freedom of poetic license.

Cicero, Pro Publio Sestio

While the State exists, there can be no freedom. When there is freedom there will be no State.

Lenin, "State and Revolution", 1919

Freedom is from within.

Frank Lloyd Wright

The case for trade is not just monetary, but moral. Economic freedom creates habits of liberty. And habits of liberty create expectations of democracy.

George W. Bush, speech, November 19, 1999

Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants it is the creed of slaves.

William Pitt

Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.

Sren Aaby Kierkegaard

Ultimately we know deeply that the other side of every fear is a freedom.

Marilyn Ferguson

There can be no real freedom without the freedom to fail.

Erich Fromm

Some people surrender their freedom willingly but others are forced to surrender it. Imprisonment begins with birth. Society, parents they refuse to allow you to keep the freedom you were born with. There are subtle ways to punish a person for daring to feel. You see that everyone around you has destroyed his true feeling nature. You imitate what you see.

Jim Morrison

People can be in general pretty well trusted, of course - - with the clock of their freedom ticking as loud as it seems to do here - - To keep an eye on the fleeting hour.

Henry James, "The Ambassadors", Book Fifth, Chapter 2

Freedom is the opportunity to make decisions...

Kenneth Hildebrand

I love freedom for what I can do with it, I hate freedom for what I have done with it.

Christian Longe

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

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

We stand for freedom. That is our conviction for ourselves that is our only commitment to others.

John F. Kennedy

The secret of Happiness is Freedom, and the secret of Freedom, Courage.

Thucydides

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

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

All we have of freedom - - All we use or know - - This our fathers bought for us, long and long ago.

Rudyard Kipling

Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err. It passes my comprehension how human beings, be they ever so experienced and able, can delight in depriving other human beings of that precious right.

Ghandi, 1931