Freedom Quotes

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 is that instant between when someone tells you to do something and when you decide how to respond.

Dr. Jeffrey Borenstein

Conformity is the jailer of freedom, and the enemy of growth.

John F. Kennedy

Laughter is the first evidence of freedom.

Rosario Castellanos

In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I do not shrink from this responsibility - I welcome it.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

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

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

Albert Camus

Freedom of speech and freedom of action are meaningless without freedom to think. And there is no freedom of thought without doubt.

Bergen Evans

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

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

The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear.

Aung San Suu Kyi

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

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

Land and Freedom!

Emiliano Zapata

I am old enough to know that victory is often a thing deferred, and rarely at the summit of courage... What is at the summit of courage, I think, is freedom. The freedom that comes with the knowledge that no earthly think can break you.

Paula Giddings

Freedom is one of the deepest and noblest aspirations of the human spirit.

Ronald Reagan

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

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

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".

I do not come into this pulpit hoping that perhaps somebody will of his own free will return to Christ. My hope lies in another quarter. I hope that my Master will lay hold of some of them and say, You are mine, and you shall be mine. I claim you for myself. My hope arises from the freeness of grace, and not from the freedom of the will.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

In human life, art may arise from almost any activity, and once it does so, it is launched on a long road of exploration, invention, freedom to the limits of extravagance, interference to the point of frustration, finally discipline, controlling constant change and growth.

Susanne Lange

What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly... it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as Freedom should not be highly rated.

Thomas Paine

Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press and that cannot be limited without being lost.

Thomas Jefferson

The bigger the information media, the less courage and freedom they allow. Bigness means weakness.

Eric Sevareid

Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.

Hannah Arendt

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 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

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

Peter Ustinov

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

Coersion, after all, merely captures man. Freedom captivates him.

Ronald Reagan

Freedom is the right to say two plus two make four. If granted, all else follows.

George Orwell

Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure.

Bertrand Russell

As soon as laws are necessary for men, they are no longer fit for freedom.

Pythagorus

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

Cowpe

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

John F. Kennedy

I believe that freedom is the deepest need of every human soul.

George W. Bush, Press Conference, White House, Tuesday, April 13, 2004

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

Christian Longe