Freedom Quotes

Seek freedom and become captive of your desires, seek discipline and find your liberty.

Frank Herbert, Dune

In the cage there is food, not much, but there is food - Outside are only great stretches of freedom.

Nicanor Parra

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

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

Freedom is nothing else but a chance to be better.

Albert Camus

A society like ours, which professes no one religion and has allowed all religions to decay, which indulges freedom to the point of license and individualism to the point of anarchy, needs all the support that responsible, cultivated homes can furnish. I hope your generation will provide a firmer shelter for civilized standards.

Alan Simpson

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

Bergen Evans

Freedom is the right to be wrong, not the right to do wrong.

John G. Riefenbake

Europe is spreading its wings. In freedom. In prosperity. And in peace. It is a truly proud moment for the European Union. It is a triumph for liberty and democracy. To our new members I say: ? Warmly welcome to our family?. Our new Europe is born.

Anders Fogh Rasmussen, (Prime Minister of Denmark) Family photo after the European Council meeting in Copenhagen, 13 December 20

Freedom is a possession of inestimable value.

Cicero

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

Those who enjoy such freedoms as we enjoy, forget in time that men died to earn them.

Franklin Roosevelt

For too long, many nations, including my own, tolerated, even excused, oppression in the Middle East in the name of stability. Oppression became common, but stability never arrived. We must take a different approach. We must help the reformers of the Middle East as they work for freedom, and strive to build a community of peaceful, democratic nations.

George W. Bush, Speech to UN General Assembly, September 21, 2004

But a Constitution of Government once changed from Freedom, can never be restored. Liberty, once lost, is lost forever.

John Adams

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

We first have to find the way of freedom from involvement before we can introduce freedom in involvement.

Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan

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

Money is power, freedom, a cushion, the root of al evil, the sum of all blessings.

Carl Sandburg

Thou canst not touch the freedom of my mind.

John Milton

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 a clear conscience.

Periande

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

Christian Longe

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

Freedom is the emancipation from the arbitrary rule of other men.

Mortimer Adle

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, Inaugural address, January 20, 1961

Your life is the sum result of all the choices you make, both consciously and unconsciously. If you can control the process of choosing, you can take control of all aspects of your life. You can find the freedom that comes from being in charge of yourself.

Robert F. Bennett

Ultimately we know deeply that the other side of every fear is a freedom.

Marilyn Ferguson

The Price Of Freedom Is Eternal Vigilance.

Thomas Jefferson

Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting.

Alan Dean Foster "To the Vanishing Point".

Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.

Albert Einstein

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

It is by the goodness of God that 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

I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.

James Madison

Freedom of expression is the matrix, the indispensable condition, of nearly every other form of freedom.

Benjamin Cardozo

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

Freedom is being able to live with the consequences of your decisions.

James X. Mullen

Power in defense of freedom is greater than power on behalf of tyranny and oppression.

Malcolm X

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