Freedom Quotes
All great things are simple, and many can be expressed in single words: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.Sir Winston Churchill
Art lives where absolute freedom is because when it is not, there can be no creativity.Bruce Lee
Indignation boils my blood at the thought of the heritage we are throwing away; at the thought that, with few exceptions, the fight for freedom is left to the poor, forlorn and defenseless, and to the few radicals and revolutionaries who would make use of liberty to destroy, rather than to maintain, American institutions.Arthur Garfield Hays
Those who enjoy such freedoms as we enjoy, forget in time that men died to earn them.Franklin Roosevelt
Freedom is the right to be wrong, not the right to do wrong.John G. Riefenbake
Solitude is the beginning of all freedom.William Orville Douglas
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
Freedom is a clear conscience.Periande
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
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
The elective system... offered a bewildering freedom of choice, leaving some graduates with the impression that they had nibbled at dozens of canaps of knowledge and never had their fill.Ted Morgan
Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.Hannah Arendt
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
History suggests that Capitalism is a necessary condition for political freedom.Milton Friedman
As soon as laws are necessary for men, they are no longer fit for freedom.Pythagorus
Laughter is the first evidence of freedom.Rosario Castellanos
The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear.Aung San Suu Kyi
I love freedom for what I can do with it, I hate freedom for what I have done with it.Christian Longe
But a Constitution of Government once changed from Freedom, can never be restored. Liberty, once lost, is lost forever.John Adams
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
Freedom of speech and freedom of action are meaningless without freedom to think. And there is no freedom of thought without doubt.Bergen Evans
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
Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.Albert Einstein
Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants it is the creed of slaves.William Pitt
Those who would deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves; and, under a just God, cannot long retain it.Abraham Lincoln
I believe that God has planted in every human heart the desire to live in freedom. And even when that desire is crushed by tyranny for decades, it will rise again.George W. Bush, State of the Union address, January 20, 2004
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
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
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".
As human beings, we are endowed with freedom of choice, and we cannot shuffle off our responsibility upon the shoulders of God or nature. We must shoulder it ourselves. It is up to us.A. J. Toynbee
Without freedom from the past, there is no freedom at all, because the mind is never new, fresh, innocent.Krishnamurti
The desire for freedom resides in every human heart. And that desire cannot be contained forever by prison walls, or martial laws, or secret police. Over time, and across the Earth, freedom will find a way.George W. Bush, Speech to UN General Assembly, September 21, 2004
On that day let us solemnly remember the sacrifices of all those who fought so valiantly, on the seas, in the air, and on foreign shores, to preserve our heritage of freedom, and let us reconsecrate ourselves to the task of promoting an enduring peace so that all their efforts shall not have been in vain.Dwight D. Eisenhowe
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
They have exiled me now from their society and I am pleased, because humanity does not exile except the one whose noble spirit rebels against despotism and oppression. He who does not prefer exile to slavery is not free by any measure of freedom, truth and duty.Kahil Gibran, Spirits Rebellious
Men want the same thing from women and their underwear: support, comfort, and freedom.Jerry Seinfeld, Seinfeld
