Freedom Quotes
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
In a free state there should be freedom of speech and thought.Tiberius
Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.Albert Einstein
Real freedom lies in wildness, not in civilization.Charles Lindbergh
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
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 elective system... offered a bewildering freedom of choice, leaving some graduates with the impression that they had nibbled at dozens of canaps of knowledge and never had their fill.Ted Morgan
Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.Hannah Arendt
Man is tormented by no greater anxiety than to find someone quickly to whom he can hand over that great gift of freedom with which the ill - Fated creature is born.Fyodor Dostoevsky, "The Brothers Karamazov".
I think the highest and lowest points are the important ones. Anything else is just... in between. I want the freedom to try everything.Jim Morrison
I want freedom for the full expression on my personality.Mahatma Gandhi
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
We stand for freedom. That is our conviction for ourselves; that is our only commitment to others.John F. Kennedy
If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom and yet renounce controversy are people who want crops without ploughing the ground.Frederick Douglass 1817 - 1895
Freedom hath a thousand charms to show, That slaves however contented never know.Cowpe
Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained.James A. Garfield, July 12, 1880
Conformity is the jailer of freedom, and the enemy of growth.John F. Kennedy
Freedom is a possession of inestimable value.Cicero
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
Children should be educated and instructed in the principles of freedom.John Adams
Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure.Bertrand Russell
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
In the cage there is food, not much, but there is food - Outside are only great stretches of freedom.Nicanor Parra
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
The very idea of freedom presupposes some objective moral law which overarches rulers and ruled alike.C. S. Lewis, The Poison of Subjectivism (from Christian Reflections; p. 108)
The Price Of Freedom Is Eternal Vigilance.Thomas Jefferson
Beyond a critical point within a finite space, freedom diminishes as numbers increase. ... The human question is not how many can possibly survive within the system, but what kind of existence is possible for those who do survive.Frank Herbert, Dune
The secret of Happiness is Freedom, and the secret of Freedom, Courage.Thucydides
Even though I was their captive, the Indians allowed me quite a bit of freedom. I could walk about freely, make my own meals, and even hurl large rocks at their heads. It was only later that I discovered they were not Indians at all, but dirty clothes hampers.Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
You have spent many lives and much treasure to bring freedom to many lands that were reluctant to receive it. And here you have a people who won it by themselves and need only the help to preserve it.Corazn Cojuangco Aquino
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
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
Indignation boils my blood at the thought of the heritage we are throwing away; at the thought that, with few exceptions, the fight for freedom is left to the poor, forlorn and defenseless, and to the few radicals and revolutionaries who would make use of liberty to destroy, rather than to maintain, American institutions.Arthur Garfield Hays
All we have of freedom - - All we use or know - - This our fathers bought for us, long and long ago.Kipling
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
So long as faith with freedom reigns And loyal hope survives, And gracious charity remains To leaven lowly lives; While there is one untrodden tract For intellect or will, And men are free to think and act, Life is worth living still.Alfred Austin
Coersion, after all, merely captures man. Freedom captivates him.Ronald Reagan
