Freedom Quotes
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 our responsibility.Arnold J. Toynbee
Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants it is the creed of slaves.William Pitt
Children should be educated and instructed in the principles of freedom.John Adams
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
We stand for freedom. That is our conviction for ourselves; that is our only commitment to others.John F. Kennedy
All we have of freedom - - All we use or know - - This our fathers bought for us, long and long ago.Rudyard Kipling
Freedom and indedendence form my character.Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, Founder of modern Turkey 24. 04. 1921
But a Constitution of Government once changed from Freedom, can never be restored. Liberty, once lost, is lost forever.John Adams
Conformity is the jailer of freedom, and the enemy of growth.John F. Kennedy
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 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
Laughter is the first evidence of freedom.Rosario Castellanos
Never wear your best trousers when you go out to fight for freedom and truth.Henrik Ibsen
Thou canst not touch the freedom of my mind.John Milton
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
Freedom is a possession of inestimable value.Cicero
True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.Franklin D. Roosevelt
A democracy is two wolves and a small lamb voting on what to have for dinner. Freedom under a constitutional republic is a well armed lamb contesting the vote.Benjamin Franklin
Power in defense of freedom is greater than power on behalf of tyranny and oppression.Malcolm X
There are days when solitude 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.Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
Whenever men take the law into their own hands, the loser is the law. And when the law loses, freedom languishes.Robert Francis Kennedy
Freedom is a clear conscience.Periande
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
We first have to find the way of freedom from involvement before we can introduce freedom in involvement.Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan
I am for freedom of religion, & against all maneuvres to bring about a legal ascendancy of one sect over another.Thomas Jefferson, letter to Elbridge Gerry, 1799
Solitude is the beginning of all freedom.William Orville Douglas
Only necessity understood, and bondage to the highest is identical with true freedom.William James
Freedom is the opportunity to make decisions...Kenneth Hildebrand
Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err. It passes my comprehension how human beings, be they ever so experienced and able, can delight in depriving other human beings of that precious right.Ghandi, 1931
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
Since the Exodus, freedom has always spoken with a Hebrew accent.Heinrich Heine
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".
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
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
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
Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.Sren Aaby Kierkegaard
In a free state there should be freedom of speech and thought.Tiberius
People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.Soren Aabye Kierkegaard
