Freedom Quotes

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

Jerry Seinfeld

I believe that freedom is the deepest need of every human soul.

George W. Bush, Press Conference, White House, Tuesday, April 13, 2004

By interpreting freedom as the propagation and immediate gratification of needs, people distort their own nature, for they engender in themselves a multitude of pointless and foolish desires, habits, and incongruous stratagems. Their lives are motivated only by mutual envy, sensuality, and ostentation.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Art lives where absolute freedom is because when it is not, there can be no creativity.

Bruce Lee

There can be no real individual freedom in the presence of economic insecurity.

Chester Bowles

As soon as laws are necessary for men, they are no longer fit for freedom.

Pythagorus

The price of freedom of religion, or of speech, or of the press, is that we must put up with a good deal of rubbish.

Robert Jackson

There are only two kinds of freedom in the world; the freedom of the rich and powerful, and the freedom of the artist and the monk who renounces possessions.

Anais Nin

In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed it must be achieved.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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

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

Milton Friedman

In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved.

Franklin D. Roosevelt, Speech, September 22, 1936

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

As it is an ancient truth that freedom cannot be legislated into existence, so it is no less obvious that freedom cannot be censored into existence.

Dwight D Eisenhowe

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

Thucydides

I know but one freedom, and that is the freedom of the mind.

Antoine de Saint - Exupery

Never wear your best trousers when you go out to fight for freedom and truth.

Henrik Ibsen

Freedom means the opportunity to be what we never thought we would be.

Daniel J. Boorstin

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

Albert Camus

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

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)

Freedom is nothing else but a chance to be better.

Albert Camus

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

Dan Quayle, 5/22/89

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!

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, Cicely, 1992

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

Children should be educated and instructed in the principles of freedom.

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

There is nothing more wonderful than freedom of speech.

Ilya Ehrenburg

The aim of sadism is to transform a man into a thng, something animate into something inanimate, since by complete and absolute control the living loses one essential quality of life - Freedom.

Erich Fromm

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

Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press and that cannot be limited without being lost.

Thomas Jefferson

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

It is the soldier who salutes the flag, serves beneath the flag, whose coffin is draped by the flag who gives that protester the freedom to abuse and burn that flag.

Zell Mille