Freedom Quotes

Without freedom, no art art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others.

Albert Camus

Only necessity understood, and bondage to the highest is identical with true freedom.

William James

In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from.

Peter Ustinov

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 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)

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

None can love freedom heartily but good men the rest love not freedom, but license.

John Milton

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.

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

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

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

Money is power, freedom, a cushion, the root of al evil, the sum of all blessings.

Carl Sandburg

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

William Pitt

Freedom hath a thousand charms to show, That slaves however contented never know.

Cowpe

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

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

Marilyn Ferguson

Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.

Mahatma Gandhi

Men want the same thing from women that they want from their underwear... a little support, comfort, and freedom.

Jerry Seinfeld

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

Rabindranath Tagore

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

Christian Longe

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

John F. Kennedy

Laughter is the first evidence of freedom.

Rosario Castellanos

Children should be educated and instructed in the principles of freedom.

John Adams

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

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

Franklin Roosevelt

Politics is the art of achieving the maximum amount of freedom for individuals that is consistent with the maintenance of social order.

Barry Goldwate

Free speech carries with it some freedom to listen.

Bob Marley

I express many absurd opinions, but I am not the first man to do it American freedom consists largely in talking nonsense.

Edgar Watson Howe

And that this country shall have a new birth of freedom, and that this government, of the people, for the people, by the people, shall not perish from the Earth.

Abraham Lincoln, Gettysburg Address

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

Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting.

Alan Dean Foster "To the Vanishing Point".

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

William Pitt

We must determine whether we really want freedom - - whether we are willing to dare the perils of... rebirth... For we never take a step forward without surrendering something that we may have held dear, without dying to that which has been.

Virginia Hanson

Only free men can negotiate; prisoners cannot enter into contracts. Your freedom and mine cannot be separated.

Nelson Mandela

Your life is the sum result of all the choices you make, both consciously and unconsciously. If you can control the process of choosing, you can take control of all aspects of your life. You can find the freedom that comes from being in charge of yourself.

Robert F. Bennett

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