Freedom Quotes
I should wish to see a world in which education aimed at mental freedom rather than imprisoning the minds of the young in a rigid armor of dogma calculated to protect them though life against the shafts of impartial evidence.Bertrand Russell, "Why I am Not a Christian".
Real freedom lies in wildness, not in civilization.Charles Lindbergh
There is nothing more wonderful than freedom of speech.Ilya Ehrenburg
In the cage there is food, not much, but there is food - Outside are only great stretches of freedom.Nicanor Parra
The Price Of Freedom Is Eternal Vigilance.Thomas Jefferson
Freedom is the right to say two plus two make four. If granted, all else follows.George Orwell
Freedom of expression is the matrix, the indispensable condition, of nearly every other form of freedom.Benjamin Cardozo
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
Liberty is the right to choose. Freedom is the result of the right choice.Anonymous
In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I do not shrink from this responsibility - I welcome it.John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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
True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.Franklin D. Roosevelt
In human life, art may arise from almost any activity, and once it does so, it is launched on a long road of exploration, invention, freedom to the limits of extravagance, interference to the point of frustration, finally discipline, controlling constant change and growth.Susanne Lange
Children should be educated and instructed in the principles of freedom.John Adams
We stand for freedom. That is our conviction for ourselves; that is our only commitment to others.John F. Kennedy
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
Without freedom from the past, there is no freedom at all, because the mind is never new, fresh, innocent.Krishnamurti
Statesmen may plan and speculate for liberty but it is religion and morality alone that can establish the principles upon which freedom can securely stand.John Adams
I believe that freedom is the deepest need of every human soul.George W. Bush, Press Conference, White House, Tuesday, April 13, 2004
Coersion, after all, merely captures man. Freedom captivates him.Ronald Reagan
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
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
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
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
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
As soon as laws are necessary for men, they are no longer fit for freedom.Pythagorus
A society that puts equality... ahead of freedom will end up with neither.Milton Friedman
There can be no real individual freedom in the presence of economic insecurity.Chester Bowles
As human beings, we are endowed with freedom of choice, and we cannot shuffle off our responsibility upon the shoulders of God or nature. We must shoulder it ourselves. It is up to us.A. J. Toynbee
In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved.Franklin D. Roosevelt, Speech, September 22, 1936
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 means the opportunity to be what we never thought we would be.Daniel J. Boorstin
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
We stand for freedom. That is our conviction for ourselves that is our only commitment to others.John F. Kennedy
Telling the truth will lead you to freedom telling the lies will lead you to slavery.Jameson Green
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
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
