Freedom Quotes
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 that instant between when someone tells you to do something and when you decide how to respond.Dr. Jeffrey Borenstein
Freedom of expression is the matrix, the indispensable condition, of nearly every other form of freedom.Benjamin Cardozo
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
Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press and that cannot be limited without being lost.Thomas Jefferson
There can be no real individual freedom in the presence of economic insecurity.Chester Bowles
People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.Soren Aabye Kierkegaard
The way to final freedom is within thy self.The Book of the Golden Precepts
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
Freedom means the opportunity to be what we never thought we would be.Daniel J. Boorstin
Freedom from the desire for an answer is essential to the understanding of a problem.Jiddu Krishnamurti
We first have to find the way of freedom from involvement before we can introduce freedom in involvement.Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan
All we have of freedom - - All we use or know - - This our fathers bought for us, long and long ago.Rudyard Kipling
Freedom is the right to say two plus two make four. If granted, all else follows.George Orwell
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
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)
There can be no real freedom without the freedom to fail.Erich Fromm
Free speech carries with it some freedom to listen.Bob Marley
There is nothing wrong with America that the faith, love of freedom, intelligence and energy of her citizens cannot cure.Dwight D. Eisenhowe
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
In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed it must be achieved.Franklin D. Roosevelt
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
After I asked him what he meant, he replied that freedom consisted of the unimpeded right to get rich, to use his ability, no matter what the cost to others, to win advancement.Norman Thomas
Politics is the art of achieving the maximum amount of freedom for individuals that is consistent with the maintenance of social order.Barry Goldwate
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
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
Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants it is the creed of slaves.William Pitt
Freedom is being able to live with the consequences of your decisions.James X. Mullen
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
I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and democracy - But that could change.Dan Quayle, 5/22/89
Freedom hath a thousand charms to show, That slaves however contented never know.Cowpe
The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear.Aung San Suu Kyi
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
Freedom is a package deal - with it comes responsibilities and consequences.Author Unknown
Liberty is the right to choose. Freedom is the result of the right choice.Anonymous
I am old enough to know that victory is often a thing deferred, and rarely at the summit of courage... What is at the summit of courage, I think, is freedom. The freedom that comes with the knowledge that no earthly think can break you.Paula Giddings
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".
