Freedom Quotes
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
America is just the country that shows how all the written guarantees in the world for freedom are no protection against tyranny and oppression of the worst kind. There the politician has come to be looked upon as the very scum of society.Peter Kropotkin
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
Seek freedom and become captive of your desires, seek discipline and find your liberty.Frank Herbert, Dune
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
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
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
Men want the same thing from women and their underwear: support, comfort, and freedom.Jerry Seinfeld, Seinfeld
The measure of a society is found in how they treat their weakest and most helpless citizens. As Americans, we are blessed with circumstances that protect our human rights and our religious freedom, but for many people around the world, deprivation and persecution have become a way of life.Jimmy Carte
Those who enjoy such freedoms as we enjoy, forget in time that men died to earn them.Franklin Roosevelt
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
Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.Albert Einstein
Art lives where absolute freedom is because when it is not, there can be no creativity.Bruce Lee
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
Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press and that cannot be limited without being lost.Thomas Jefferson
We must determine whether we really want freedom - - whether we are willing to dare the perils of... rebirth... For we never take a step forward without surrendering something that we may have held dear, without dying to that which has been.Virginia Hanson
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
We gain freedom when we have paid the full price...Rabindranath Tagore
Some people surrender their freedom willingly but others are forced to surrender it. Imprisonment begins with birth. Society, parents they refuse to allow you to keep the freedom you were born with. There are subtle ways to punish a person for daring to feel. You see that everyone around you has destroyed his true feeling nature. You imitate what you see.Jim Morrison
The freedom of all is essential to my freedom.Mikhail Bakunin
Just living is not enough, said the Butterfly. One must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.Hans Christian Anderson
Those who would deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves; and, under a just God, cannot long retain it.Abraham Lincoln
Free speech carries with it some freedom to listen.Bob Marley
I know but one freedom, and that is the freedom of the mind.Antoine de Saint - Exupery
We stand for freedom. That is our conviction for ourselves that is our only commitment to others.John F. Kennedy
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 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
The Price Of Freedom Is Eternal Vigilance.Thomas Jefferson
Land and Freedom!Emiliano Zapata
The way to final freedom is within thy self.The Book of the Golden Precepts
Until you lose your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was or what freedom really is.Margaret Mitchell
Freedom of expression is the matrix, the indispensable condition, of nearly every other form of freedom.Benjamin Cardozo
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)
In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from.Peter Ustinov
I do not come into this pulpit hoping that perhaps somebody will of his own free will return to Christ. My hope lies in another quarter. I hope that my Master will lay hold of some of them and say, You are mine, and you shall be mine. I claim you for myself. My hope arises from the freeness of grace, and not from the freedom of the will.Charles Haddon Spurgeon
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 case for trade is not just monetary, but moral. Economic freedom creates habits of liberty. And habits of liberty create expectations of democracy.George W. Bush, speech, November 19, 1999
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
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
