Freedom Quotes
Solitude is the beginning of all freedom.William Orville Douglas
Art lives where absolute freedom is because when it is not, there can be no creativity.Bruce Lee
Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press and that cannot be limited without being lost.Thomas Jefferson
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
Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.Albert Einstein
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
Since the Exodus, freedom has always spoken with a Hebrew accent.Heinrich Heine
Freedom of the press is limited to those who own one.A. J. Liebling
Freedom is a clear conscience.Periande
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)
Freedom is being able to live with the consequences of your decisions.James X. Mullen
Liberty is the right to choose. Freedom is the result of the right choice.Anonymous
The freedom of poetic license.Cicero, Pro Publio Sestio
Freedom is a possession of inestimable value.Cicero
Those who would deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves; and, under a just God, cannot long retain it.Abraham Lincoln
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
They have exiled me now from their society and I am pleased, because humanity does not exile except the one whose noble spirit rebels against despotism and oppression. He who does not prefer exile to slavery is not free by any measure of freedom, truth and duty.Kahil Gibran, Spirits Rebellious
So long as faith with freedom reigns And loyal hope survives, And gracious charity remains To leaven lowly lives; While there is one untrodden tract For intellect or will, And men are free to think and act, Life is worth living still.Alfred Austin
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
Power in defense of freedom is greater than power on behalf of tyranny and oppression.Malcolm X
You have spent many lives and much treasure to bring freedom to many lands that were reluctant to receive it. And here you have a people who won it by themselves and need only the help to preserve it.Corazn Cojuangco Aquino
On that day let us solemnly remember the sacrifices of all those who fought so valiantly, on the seas, in the air, and on foreign shores, to preserve our heritage of freedom, and let us reconsecrate ourselves to the task of promoting an enduring peace so that all their efforts shall not have been in vain.Dwight D. Eisenhowe
The right to be let alone is indeed the beginning of all freedom.Justice William O. Douglas
Freedom also includes the right to mismanage your own affairs.Author Unknown
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
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".
Freedom from the desire for an answer is essential to the understanding of a problem.Jiddu Krishnamurti
We gain freedom when we have paid the full price...Rabindranath Tagore
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
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
Those who enjoy such freedoms as we enjoy, forget in time that men died to earn them.Franklin Roosevelt
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
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
Never wear your best trousers when you go out to fight for freedom and truth.Henrik Ibsen
I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom.Bob Dylan
Freedom hath a thousand charms to show, That slaves however contented never know.Cowpe
Freedom is that instant between when someone tells you to do something and when you decide how to respond.Dr. Jeffrey Borenstein
Freedom is the right to say two plus two make four. If granted, all else follows.George Orwell
Freedom is nothing else but a chance to be better.Albert Camus
