Freedom Quotes
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
If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will Lose its freedom and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that, too.W. Somerset Maugham
War is Peace Freedom is Slavery Ignorance is Strength.George Orwell, Book "1984".
So long as faith with freedom reigns And loyal hope survives, And gracious charity remains To leaven lowly lives; While there is one untrodden tract For intellect or will, And men are free to think and act, Life is worth living still.Alfred Austin
Ultimately we know deeply that the other side of every fear is a freedom.Marilyn Ferguson
Only free men can negotiate; prisoners cannot enter into contracts. Your freedom and mine cannot be separated.Nelson Mandela
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
The price of freedom of religion, or of speech, or of the press, is that we must put up with a good deal of rubbish.Robert Jackson
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
People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.Soren Kierkegaard
They have exiled me now from their society and I am pleased, because humanity does not exile except the one whose noble spirit rebels against despotism and oppression. He who does not prefer exile to slavery is not free by any measure of freedom, truth and duty.Kahil Gibran, Spirits Rebellious
Freedom is the right to say two plus two make four. If granted, all else follows.George Orwell
Indignation boils my blood at the thought of the heritage we are throwing away; at the thought that, with few exceptions, the fight for freedom is left to the poor, forlorn and defenseless, and to the few radicals and revolutionaries who would make use of liberty to destroy, rather than to maintain, American institutions.Arthur Garfield Hays
Freedom also includes the right to mismanage your own affairs.Author Unknown
I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and democracy - But that could change.Dan Quayle, 5/22/89
The secret of Happiness is Freedom, and the secret of Freedom, Courage.Thucydides
Freedom from the desire for an answer is essential to the understanding of a problem.Jiddu Krishnamurti
The willingness to sacrifice is the prelude to freedom.Pesach Sede
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)
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
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
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
A man should never put on his best trousers when he goes out to battle for freedom and truth.Henrik Ibsen
Without freedom from the past, there is no freedom at all, because the mind is never new, fresh, innocent.Krishnamurti
Freedom is the emancipation from the arbitrary rule of other men.Mortimer Adle
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
In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved.Franklin D. Roosevelt, Speech, September 22, 1936
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
Freedom is nothing else but a chance to be better.Albert Camus
Freedom hath a thousand charms to show, That slaves however contented never know.Cowpe
In the cage there is food, not much, but there is food - Outside are only great stretches of freedom.Nicanor Parra
Man is tormented by no greater anxiety than to find someone quickly to whom he can hand over that great gift of freedom with which the ill - Fated creature is born.Fyodor Dostoevsky, "The Brothers Karamazov".
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
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
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
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
I am old enough to know that victory is often a thing deferred, and rarely at the summit of courage... What is at the summit of courage, I think, is freedom. The freedom that comes with the knowledge that no earthly think can break you.Paula Giddings
