Freedom Quotes
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
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
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".
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
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
Never wear your best trousers when you go out to fight for freedom and truth.Henrik Ibsen
God is not merely interestd in the freedom of brown men, yellow men, red men and black men. He is interested in the freedom of the whole human race.Martin Luther King Jr.
But a Constitution of Government once changed from Freedom, can never be restored. Liberty, once lost, is lost forever.John Adams
All we have of freedom - - All we use or know - - This our fathers bought for us, long and long ago.Kipling
Beyond a critical point within a finite space, freedom diminishes as numbers increase. ... The human question is not how many can possibly survive within the system, but what kind of existence is possible for those who do survive.Frank Herbert, Dune
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
I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and democracy - But that could change.Dan Quayle, 5/22/89
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
The bigger the information media, the less courage and freedom they allow. Bigness means weakness.Eric Sevareid
Freedom is nothing else but a chance to be better.Albert Camus
The outward freedom that we shall attain will only be in exact proportion to the inward freedom to which we may have grown at a given moment. And if this is a correct view of freedom, our chief energy must be concentrated on achieving reform from within.Mahatma Gandhi
We stand for freedom. That is our conviction for ourselves that is our only commitment to others.John F. Kennedy
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
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
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
Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves.William Pitt
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
War is Peace Freedom is Slavery Ignorance is Strength.George Orwell, Book "1984".
The idea that men are created free and equal is both true and misleading: men are created different; they lose their social freedom and their individual autonomy in seeking to become like each other.David Riesman
Freedom of expression is the matrix, the indispensable condition, of nearly every other form of freedom.Benjamin Cardozo
The way to final freedom is within thy self.The Book of the Golden Precepts
People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.Soren Kierkegaard
All we have of freedom - - All we use or know - - This our fathers bought for us, long and long ago.Rudyard Kipling
In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from.Peter Ustinov
Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.Albert Einstein
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
I want freedom for the full expression on my personality.Mahatma Gandhi
Men want the same thing from women that they want from their underwear... a little support, comfort, and freedom.Jerry Seinfeld
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
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
Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants it is the creed of slaves.William Pitt
