Freedom Quotes
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.Andrew Schneide
People unfit for freedom - who cannot do much with it - Are hungry for power. The desire for freedom is an attribute of a have type of self. It says: leave me alone and I shall grow, learn, and realize my capacities. The desire for power is basically an attribute of a have not type of self.Eric Hoffe
The moment we choose to love we begin to move towards freedom...Bell Hooks
I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom.Bob Dylan
We stand for freedom. That is our conviction for ourselves that is our only commitment to others.John F. Kennedy
Free speech carries with it some freedom to listen.Bob Marley
Freedom is from within.Frank Lloyd Wright
The secret of Happiness is Freedom, and the secret of Freedom, Courage.Thucydides
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
Freedom and indedendence form my character.Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, Founder of modern Turkey 24. 04. 1921
Freedom is nothing else but a chance to be better.Albert Camus
While the State exists, there can be no freedom. When there is freedom there will be no State.Lenin, "State and Revolution", 1919
People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.Soren Aabye Kierkegaard
Statesmen may plan and speculate for liberty but it is religion and morality alone that can establish the principles upon which freedom can securely stand.John Adams
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
The right to be let alone is indeed the beginning of all freedom.Justice William O. Douglas
A society that puts equality... ahead of freedom will end up with neither.Milton Friedman
Freedom of expression is the matrix, the indispensable condition, of nearly every other form of freedom.Benjamin Cardozo
Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves.William Pitt
Money is power, freedom, a cushion, the root of al evil, the sum of all blessings.Carl Sandburg
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
I want freedom for the full expression on my personality.Mahatma Gandhi
Those who would deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves; and, under a just God, cannot long retain it.Abraham Lincoln
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
Thou canst not touch the freedom of my mind.John Milton
I know but one freedom, and that is the freedom of the mind.Antoine de Saint - Exupery
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
Until you lose your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was or what freedom really is.Margaret Mitchell
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
None can love freedom heartily but good men the rest love not freedom, but license.John Milton
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
Freedom is not something that anybody can be given Freedom is something that people take and people are as free as they want to be.James Arthur Baldwin
Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting.Alan Dean Foster "To the Vanishing Point".
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)
History suggests that Capitalism is a necessary condition for political freedom.Milton Friedman
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
In our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either.Mark Twain
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.