Freedom Quotes
If happiness truly consisted of physical ease and freedom from care, then the happiest individual would not be either a man or a woman; it would be, I think, an American cow.William Lyon Phelps
Thou canst not touch the freedom of my mind.John Milton
The freedom of all is essential to my freedom.Mikhail Bakunin
The way to final freedom is within thy self.The Book of the Golden Precepts
We stand for freedom. That is our conviction for ourselves that is our only commitment to others.John F. Kennedy
We hold in our hands, the most precious gift of all: Freedom. The freedom to express our art. Our love. The freedom to be who we want to be. We are not going to give that freedom away and no one shall take it from us!Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, Cicely, 1992
As soon as laws are necessary for men, they are no longer fit for freedom.Pythagorus
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
Men want the same thing from women and their underwear: support, comfort, and freedom.Jerry Seinfeld, Seinfeld
Real freedom lies in wildness, not in civilization.Charles Lindbergh
When an American says that he loves his country, he... means that he loves an inner air, an inner light in which freedom lives and in which a man can draw the breath of self - Respect.Adlai Ewing Stevenson
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 that freedom is the deepest need of every human soul.George W. Bush, Press Conference, White House, Tuesday, April 13, 2004
Only free men can negotiate; prisoners cannot enter into contracts. Your freedom and mine cannot be separated.Nelson Mandela
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
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
Land and Freedom!Emiliano Zapata
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
No dictator, no invader, can hold an imprisoned population by force of arms forever. There is no greater power in the universe than the need for freedom. Against that power, governments and tyrants and armies cannot stand. The Centauri learned this lesson once. We will teach it to them again. Though it take a thousand years, we will be free.J. Michael Straczynski
We must determine whether we really want freedom - - whether we are willing to dare the perils of... rebirth... For we never take a step forward without surrendering something that we may have held dear, without dying to that which has been.Virginia Hanson
Freedom of speech and freedom of action are meaningless without freedom to think. And there is no freedom of thought without doubt.Bergen Evans
Freedom is from within.Frank Lloyd Wright
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
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
The bigger the information media, the less courage and freedom they allow. Bigness means weakness.Eric Sevareid
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)
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 F. Kennedy, Inaugural address, January 20, 1961
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
Ultimately we know deeply that the other side of every fear is a freedom.Marilyn Ferguson
I know but one freedom, and that is the freedom of the mind.Antoine de Saint - Exupery
There is nothing more wonderful than freedom of speech.Ilya Ehrenburg
In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed it must be achieved.Franklin D. Roosevelt
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
But a Constitution of Government once changed from Freedom, can never be restored. Liberty, once lost, is lost forever.John Adams
Ultimately we know deeply that the other side of fear is a freedom.Marilyn Ferguson
There can be no real freedom without the freedom to fail.Erich Fromm
