Freedom Quotes

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
In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from.
Peter Ustinov
They do not leave home without American Express. ... Blame the moral carelessness that parents pass off as the gift of freedom as they cut their children loose like colorful kites and wish them an exciting flight.
Roger Rosenblatt
On that day let us solemnly remember the sacrifices of all those who fought so valiantly, on the seas, in the air, and on foreign shores, to preserve our heritage of freedom, and let us reconsecrate ourselves to the task of promoting an enduring peace so that all their efforts shall not have been in vain.
Dwight D. Eisenhowe
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
Jerry seinfeld - men want the same thing from women that they want...
Money is power, freedom, a cushion, the root of al evil, the sum of all blessings.
Carl Sandburg
I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom.
Bob Dylan
George orwell - freedom is the right to say two plus two make...
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
Children should be educated and instructed in the principles of freedom.
John Adams
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.
History suggests that Capitalism is a necessary condition for political freedom.
Milton Friedman
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
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 case for trade is not just monetary, but moral. Economic freedom creates habits of liberty. And habits of liberty create expectations of democracy.
George W. Bush, speech, November 19, 1999
Freedom is the emancipation from the arbitrary rule of other men.
Mortimer Adle
Just living is not enough, said the Butterfly. One must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.
Hans Christian Anderson
Ted morgan - the elective system... offered a bewildering...
The right to be let alone is indeed the beginning of all freedom.
Justice William O. Douglas
The Price Of Freedom Is Eternal Vigilance.
Thomas Jefferson
Those who enjoy such freedoms as we enjoy, forget in time that men died to earn them.
Franklin Roosevelt
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
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
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
A man should never put on his best trousers when he goes out to battle for freedom and truth.
Henrik Ibsen
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
Coersion, after all, merely captures man. Freedom captivates him.
Ronald Reagan
People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
Soren Aabye Kierkegaard
Freedom, then, lies only in our innate human capacity to choose between different sorts of bondage, bondage to desire or self esteem, or bondage to the light that lightens all our lives.
Sri Madhava
Laughter is the first evidence of freedom.
Rosario Castellanos
In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed it must be achieved.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
All great things are simple, and many can be expressed in single words: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
Sir Winston Churchill
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
Freedom of speech and freedom of action are meaningless without freedom to think. And there is no freedom of thought without doubt.
Bergen Evans
We first have to find the way of freedom from involvement before we can introduce freedom in involvement.
Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan
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
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