Freedom Quotes

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 deepest American dream is not the hunger for money or fame it is the dream of settling down, in peace and freedom and cooperation, in the promised land.

Scott Russell Sanders

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)

Freedom is a clear conscience.

Periande

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 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

Freedom is from within.

Frank Lloyd Wright

Without freedom from the past, there is no freedom at all, because the mind is never new, fresh, innocent.

Krishnamurti

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".

Freedom is the right to be wrong, not the right to do wrong.

John G. Riefenbake

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

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

Rudyard Kipling

There are days when solitude, for someone my age, is a heady wine that intoxicates you with freedom, others when it is a bitter tonic, and still others when it is a poison that makes you beat your head against the wall.

Colette

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".

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

Freedom of the press is limited to those who own one.

A. J. Liebling

But a Constitution of Government once changed from Freedom, can never be restored. Liberty, once lost, is lost forever.

John Adams

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

Erich Fromm

Freedom also includes the right to mismanage your own affairs.

Author Unknown

Laughter is the first evidence of freedom.

Rosario Castellanos

Freedom of expression is the matrix, the indispensable condition, of nearly every other form of freedom.

Benjamin Cardozo

When an American says that he loves his country, he... means that he loves an inner air, an inner light in which freedom lives and in which a man can draw the breath of self - Respect.

Adlai Ewing Stevenson

Freedom is the emancipation from the arbitrary rule of other men.

Mortimer Adle

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

Heinrich Heine

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

Seek freedom and become captive of your desires, seek discipline and find your liberty.

Frank Herbert, Dune

Those who enjoy such freedoms as we enjoy, forget in time that men died to earn them.

Franklin Roosevelt

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

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.

Mark Twain

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

Christian Longe

People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.

Soren Aabye 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

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

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

Telling the truth will lead you to freedom telling the lies will lead you to slavery.

Jameson Green

Freedom is being able to live with the consequences of your decisions.

James X. Mullen

We gain freedom when we have paid the full price...

Rabindranath Tagore