Freedom Quotes

Never wear your best trousers when you go out to fight for freedom and truth.

Henrik Ibsen

Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.

Hannah Arendt

Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than any other factor, and the contrary opinion is wishfull thinking at its worst. Breeds that forget this basic truth have always paid for it with their lives and freedoms.

Robert A. Heinlein, Starship Troopers chapter 4

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

Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves.

William Pitt

In a free state there should be freedom of speech and thought.

Tiberius

People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.

Soren Aabye Kierkegaard

Freedom is the emancipation from the arbitrary rule of other men.

Mortimer Adle

Seek freedom and become captive of your desires, seek discipline and find your liberty.

Frank Herbert, Dune

All we have of freedom - - All we use or know - - This our fathers bought for us, long and long ago.

Rudyard Kipling

We stand for freedom. That is our conviction for ourselves; that is our only commitment to others.

John F. Kennedy

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".

If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will Lose its freedom and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that, too.

W. Somerset Maugham

The secret of Happiness is Freedom, and the secret of Freedom, Courage.

Thucydides

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

We gain freedom when we have paid the full price...

Rabindranath Tagore

Freedom is being able to live with the consequences of your decisions.

James X. Mullen

In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from.

Peter Ustinov

Telling the truth will lead you to freedom telling the lies will lead you to slavery.

Jameson Green

Whenever men take the law into their own hands, the loser is the law. And when the law loses, freedom languishes.

Robert Francis Kennedy

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

In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved.

Franklin D. Roosevelt, Speech, September 22, 1936

There can be no real individual freedom in the presence of economic insecurity.

Chester Bowles

A free press can of course be good or bad, but, most certainly, without freedom it will never be anything but bad.... Freedom is nothing else but a chance to bet better, whereas enslavement is a certainty of the worse.

Albert Camus, Resistance, Rebellion and Death (1960)

Those who would deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves; and, under a just God, cannot long retain it.

Abraham Lincoln

Freedom is the right to be wrong, not the right to do wrong.

John G. Riefenbake

Freedom means the opportunity to be what we never thought we would be.

Daniel J. Boorstin

Thou canst not touch the freedom of my mind.

John Milton

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

Freedom of speech and freedom of action are meaningless without freedom to think. And there is no freedom of thought without doubt.

Bergen Evans

Make no mistake about it: Operation Desert Storm truly was a victory of good over evil, of freedom over tyranny, of peace over war.

Dan Quayle, remarks at Arlington National Cemetery

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

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

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.

Andrew Schneide

The willingness to sacrifice is the prelude to freedom.

Pesach Sede

Liberty is the right to choose. Freedom is the result of the right choice.

Anonymous

The Price Of Freedom Is Eternal Vigilance.

Thomas Jefferson

Ultimately we know deeply that the other side of every fear is a freedom.

Marilyn Ferguson

Since the Exodus, freedom has always spoken with a Hebrew accent.

Heinrich Heine