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.Mark Twain
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
Since the Exodus, freedom has always spoken with a Hebrew accent.Heinrich Heine
Freedom is the emancipation from the arbitrary rule of other men.Mortimer Adle
The name of peace is sweet, and the thing itself is beneficial, but there is a great difference between peace and servitude. Peace is freedom in tranquillity, servitude is the worst of all evils, to be resisted not only by war, but even by death.Cicero
Freedom of expression is the matrix, the indispensable condition, of nearly every other form of freedom.Benjamin Cardozo
I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.James Madison
The bigger the information media, the less courage and freedom they allow. Bigness means weakness.Eric Sevareid
Men want the same thing from women and their underwear: support, comfort, and freedom.Jerry Seinfeld, Seinfeld
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
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
Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.Hannah Arendt
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
Seek freedom and become captive of your desires, seek discipline and find your liberty.Frank Herbert, Dune
The more freedom we enjoy, the greater the responsibility we bear, toward others as well as ourselves.Oscar Arias Sanchez
Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than any other factor, and the contrary opinion is wishfull thinking at its worst. Breeds that forget this basic truth have always paid for it with their lives and freedoms.Robert A. Heinlein, Starship Troopers chapter 4
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
In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed it must be achieved.Franklin D. Roosevelt
War is Peace Freedom is Slavery Ignorance is Strength.George Orwell, Book "1984".
Europe is spreading its wings. In freedom. In prosperity. And in peace. It is a truly proud moment for the European Union. It is a triumph for liberty and democracy. To our new members I say: ? Warmly welcome to our family?. Our new Europe is born.Anders Fogh Rasmussen, (Prime Minister of Denmark) Family photo after the European Council meeting in Copenhagen, 13 December 20
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)
A free press can of course be good or bad, but, most certainly, without freedom it will never be anything but bad.... Freedom is nothing else but a chance to bet better, whereas enslavement is a certainty of the worse.Albert Camus, Resistance, Rebellion and Death (1960)
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
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
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
There are days when solitude is a heady wine that intoxicates you with freedom, others when it is a bitter tonic, and still others when it is a poison that makes you beat your head against the wall.Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
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
The secret of Happiness is Freedom, and the secret of Freedom, Courage.Thucydides
Freedom also includes the right to mismanage your own affairs.Author Unknown
Until you lose your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was or what freedom really is.Margaret Mitchell
I express many absurd opinions, but I am not the first man to do it American freedom consists largely in talking nonsense.Edgar Watson Howe
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
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
I love freedom for what I can do with it, I hate freedom for what I have done with it.Christian Longe
As soon as laws are necessary for men, they are no longer fit for freedom.Pythagorus
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
