Freedom Quotes
America is just the country that shows how all the written guarantees in the world for freedom are no protection against tyranny and oppression of the worst kind. There the politician has come to be looked upon as the very scum of society.Peter Kropotkin
In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed it must be achieved.Franklin D. Roosevelt
Until you lose your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was or what freedom really is.Margaret Mitchell
Only free men can negotiate; prisoners cannot enter into contracts. Your freedom and mine cannot be separated.Nelson Mandela
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".
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 means the opportunity to be what we never thought we would be.Daniel J. Boorstin
Freedom also includes the right to mismanage your own affairs.Author Unknown
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)
Freedom hath a thousand charms to show, That slaves however contented never know.Cowpe
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
Without freedom, no art art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others.Albert Camus
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
I know but one freedom, and that is the freedom of the mind.Antoine de Saint - Exupery
As it is an ancient truth that freedom cannot be legislated into existence, so it is no less obvious that freedom cannot be censored into existence.Dwight D Eisenhowe
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
The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear.Aung San Suu Kyi
Freedom is from within.Frank Lloyd Wright
In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from.Peter Ustinov
The secret of Happiness is Freedom, and the secret of Freedom, Courage.Thucydides
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
A society that puts equality... ahead of freedom will end up with neither.Milton Friedman
The basic test of freedom is perhaps less in what we are free to do than in what we are free not to do.Eric Hoffe
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
The willingness to sacrifice is the prelude to freedom.Pesach Sede
There is nothing wrong with America that the faith, love of freedom, intelligence and energy of her citizens cannot cure.Dwight D. Eisenhowe
Freedom of the press is limited to those who own one.A. J. Liebling
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
We first have to find the way of freedom from involvement before we can introduce freedom in involvement.Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan
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
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
There can be no real freedom without the freedom to fail.Erich Fromm
All we have of freedom - - All we use or know - - This our fathers bought for us, long and long ago.Kipling
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
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
Free speech carries with it some freedom to listen.Bob Marley
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
