Freedom Quotes

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 of them.

Mark Twain, Following the Equator (1897)

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

The greatest lesson we can learn from the past... is that freedom is at the core of every successful nation in the world.

Frederick Chiluba

Freedom and indedendence form my character.

Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, Founder of modern Turkey 24. 04. 1921

I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and democracy - But that could change.

Dan Quayle, 5/22/89

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".

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

Eric Sevareid

Men want the same thing from women that they want from their underwear... a little support, comfort, and freedom.

Jerry Seinfeld

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

Marilyn Ferguson

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

Christian Longe

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

Cowpe

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

People can be in general pretty well trusted, of course - - with the clock of their freedom ticking as loud as it seems to do here - - To keep an eye on the fleeting hour.

Henry James, "The Ambassadors", Book Fifth, Chapter 2

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

Benjamin Cardozo

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

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

Nicanor Parra

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

Albert Camus

A man should never put on his best trousers when he goes out to battle for freedom and truth.

Henrik Ibsen

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

Dr. Jeffrey Borenstein

Thou canst not touch the freedom of my mind.

John Milton

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

Laughter is the first evidence of freedom.

Rosario Castellanos

Freedom is a package deal - with it comes responsibilities and consequences.

Author Unknown

The more freedom we enjoy, the greater the responsibility we bear, toward others as well as ourselves.

Oscar Arias Sanchez

None can love freedom heartily but good men the rest love not freedom, but license.

John Milton

Freedom from the desire for an answer is essential to the understanding of a problem.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

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

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

Many politicians lay it down as a self - Evident proposition, that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story, who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim.

Lord Macaulay

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 Fitzgerald Kennedy

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

Malcolm X

While the State exists, there can be no freedom. When there is freedom there will be no State.

Lenin, "State and Revolution", 1919

A society that puts equality... ahead of freedom will end up with neither.

Milton Friedman

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 freedom fighters of Nicaragua... are the moral equal of our Founding Fathers and the brave men and women of the French Resistance.

Ronald Reagan

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

Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting.

Alan Dean Foster "To the Vanishing Point".

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

The secret of Happiness is Freedom, and the secret of Freedom, Courage.

Thucydides