Freedom Quotes
Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.Sren Aaby Kierkegaard
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 want freedom for the full expression on my personality.Mahatma Gandhi
For too long, many nations, including my own, tolerated, even excused, oppression in the Middle East in the name of stability. Oppression became common, but stability never arrived. We must take a different approach. We must help the reformers of the Middle East as they work for freedom, and strive to build a community of peaceful, democratic nations.George W. Bush, Speech to UN General Assembly, September 21, 2004
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
America is just the country that shows how all the written guarantees in the world for freedom are no protection against tyranny and oppression of the worst kind. There the politician has come to be looked upon as the very scum of society.Peter Kropotkin
Those who enjoy such freedoms as we enjoy, forget in time that men died to earn them.Franklin Roosevelt
Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure.Bertrand Russell
And that this country shall have a new birth of freedom, and that this government, of the people, for the people, by the people, shall not perish from the Earth.Abraham Lincoln, Gettysburg Address
Power in defense of freedom is greater than power on behalf of tyranny and oppression.Malcolm X
Freedom and indedendence form my character.Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, Founder of modern Turkey 24. 04. 1921
All we have of freedom - - All we use or know - - This our fathers bought for us, long and long ago.Kipling
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 is just Chaos, with better lighting.Alan Dean Foster "To the Vanishing Point".
Land and Freedom!Emiliano Zapata
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
People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.Soren Kierkegaard
Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err. It passes my comprehension how human beings, be they ever so experienced and able, can delight in depriving other human beings of that precious right.Ghandi, 1931
I think the highest and lowest points are the important ones. Anything else is just... in between. I want the freedom to try everything.Jim Morrison
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
In the cage there is food, not much, but there is food - Outside are only great stretches of freedom.Nicanor Parra
Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.Albert Einstein
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.
Freedom is a package deal - with it comes responsibilities and consequences.Author Unknown
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
The freedom of all is essential to my freedom.Mikhail Bakunin
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
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
Just living is not enough, said the Butterfly. One must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.Hans Christian Anderson
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
People unfit for freedom - who cannot do much with it - Are hungry for power. The desire for freedom is an attribute of a have type of self. It says: leave me alone and I shall grow, learn, and realize my capacities. The desire for power is basically an attribute of a have not type of self.Eric Hoffe
But a Constitution of Government once changed from Freedom, can never be restored. Liberty, once lost, is lost forever.John Adams
Freedom is nothing else but a chance to be better.Albert Camus
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
Ultimately we know deeply that the other side of fear is a freedom.Marilyn Ferguson
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)
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
