Freedom Quotes
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 Fitzgerald Kennedy
I want freedom for the full expression on my personality.Mahatma Gandhi
The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear.Aung San Suu Kyi
Freedom is a package deal - with it comes responsibilities and consequences.Author Unknown
Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than any other factor, and the contrary opinion is wishfull thinking at its worst. Breeds that forget this basic truth have always paid for it with their lives and freedoms.Robert A. Heinlein, Starship Troopers chapter 4
There is nothing wrong with America that the faith, love of freedom, intelligence and energy of her citizens cannot cure.Dwight D. Eisenhowe
The right to be let alone is indeed the beginning of all freedom.Justice William O. Douglas
Men want the same thing from women that they want from their underwear... a little support, comfort, and freedom.Jerry Seinfeld
America does not go abroad in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well - wisher to freedom and independence of all. She is the champion and vindicator only of her own.John Quincy Adams
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
Telling the truth will lead you to freedom telling the lies will lead you to slavery.Jameson Green
None can love freedom heartily but good men the rest love not freedom, but license.John Milton
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
A society that puts equality... ahead of freedom will end up with neither.Milton Friedman
We hold in our hands, the most precious gift of all: Freedom. The freedom to express our art. Our love. The freedom to be who we want to be. We are not going to give that freedom away and no one shall take it from us!Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, Cicely, 1992
I love freedom for what I can do with it, I hate freedom for what I have done with it.Christian Longe
We must face the fact that the preservation of individual freedom is incompatible with a full satisfaction of our views of distributive justice.Friedrich August von Hayek
Well, if crime fighters fight crime and fire fighters fight fire, what do freedom fighters fight They never mention that part to us, do they.George Carlin
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
A society like ours, which professes no one religion and has allowed all religions to decay, which indulges freedom to the point of license and individualism to the point of anarchy, needs all the support that responsible, cultivated homes can furnish. I hope your generation will provide a firmer shelter for civilized standards.Alan Simpson
While the State exists, there can be no freedom. When there is freedom there will be no State.Lenin, "State and Revolution", 1919
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 the right to be wrong, not the right to do wrong.John G. Riefenbake
I believe that freedom is the deepest need of every human soul.George W. Bush, Press Conference, White House, Tuesday, April 13, 2004
Europe is spreading its wings. In freedom. In prosperity. And in peace. It is a truly proud moment for the European Union. It is a triumph for liberty and democracy. To our new members I say: ? Warmly welcome to our family?. Our new Europe is born.Anders Fogh Rasmussen, (Prime Minister of Denmark) Family photo after the European Council meeting in Copenhagen, 13 December 20
Coersion, after all, merely captures man. Freedom captivates him.Ronald Reagan
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
Laws alone can not secure freedom of expression in order that every man present his views without penalty there must be spirit of tolerance in the entire population.Albert Einstein
As human beings, we are endowed with freedom of choice, and we cannot shuffle off our responsibility upon the shoulders of God or nature. We must shoulder it ourselves. It is up to us.A. J. Toynbee
Freedom means the opportunity to be what we never thought we would be.Daniel J. Boorstin
What do you gain, Soviet Union, from this miserable policy Where is your decency Would it be a disgrace for you to give up this battle On suppression of freedom for Jews in the USSR.Golda Mei
You have spent many lives and much treasure to bring freedom to many lands that were reluctant to receive it. And here you have a people who won it by themselves and need only the help to preserve it.Corazn Cojuangco Aquino
If ye love wealth greater than liberty, the tranquility of servitude greater than the animating contest for freedom, go home from us in peace. We seek not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you and may posterity forget that ye were once our countrymen.Samuel Adams
Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure.Bertrand Russell
Freedom is that instant between when someone tells you to do something and when you decide how to respond.Dr. Jeffrey Borenstein
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, Inaugural address, January 20, 1961
Money is power, freedom, a cushion, the root of al evil, the sum of all blessings.Carl Sandburg
