Freedom Quotes
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)
Men want the same thing from women that they want from their underwear... a little support, comfort, and freedom.Jerry Seinfeld
There can be no real freedom without the freedom to fail.Erich Fromm
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
Freedom is from within.Frank Lloyd Wright
How does the Meadow flower its bloom unfold Because the lovely little flower is free Down to its root, and in that freedom bold.William Wordsworth
I love freedom for what I can do with it, I hate freedom for what I have done with it.Christian Longe
The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear.Aung San Suu Kyi
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
We stand for freedom. That is our conviction for ourselves that is our only commitment to others.John F. Kennedy
In a free state there should be freedom of speech and thought.Tiberius
Coersion, after all, merely captures man. Freedom captivates him.Ronald Reagan
When men are brought face to face with their opponents, forced to listen and learn and mend their ideas, they cease to be children and savages and begin to live like civilized men. Then only is freedom a reality, when men may voice their opinions because they must examine their opinions.Walter Lippmann
There is nothing wrong with America that the faith, love of freedom, intelligence and energy of her citizens cannot cure.Dwight D. Eisenhowe
Freedom from the desire for an answer is essential to the understanding of a problem.Jiddu Krishnamurti
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
Conformity is the jailer of freedom, and the enemy of growth.John F. Kennedy
Children should be educated and instructed in the principles of freedom.John Adams
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
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
We gain freedom when we have paid the full price...Rabindranath Tagore
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
If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will Lose its freedom and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that, too.W. Somerset Maugham
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".
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
Whenever men take the law into their own hands, the loser is the law. And when the law loses, freedom languishes.Robert Francis Kennedy
Freedom is the right to be wrong, not the right to do wrong.John G. Riefenbake
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
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)
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
Laughter is the first evidence of freedom.Rosario Castellanos
Freedom is the right to say two plus two make four. If granted, all else follows.George Orwell
Freedom and indedendence form my character.Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, Founder of modern Turkey 24. 04. 1921
In the cage there is food, not much, but there is food - Outside are only great stretches of freedom.Nicanor Parra
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
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".
Art lives where absolute freedom is because when it is not, there can be no creativity.Bruce Lee
