Freedom Quotes

Krishnamurti - without freedom from the past, there is no...
Thou canst not touch the freedom of my mind.
John Milton
Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure.
Bertrand Russell
America does not go abroad in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well - wisher to freedom and independence of all. She is the champion and vindicator only of her own.
John Quincy Adams
Free speech carries with it some freedom to listen.
Bob Marley
I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom.
Bob Dylan
All great things are simple, and many can be expressed in single words: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
Sir Winston Churchill
While the State exists, there can be no freedom. When there is freedom there will be no State.
Lenin, "State and Revolution", 1919
Never wear your best trousers when you go out to fight for freedom and truth.
Henrik Ibsen
But a Constitution of Government once changed from Freedom, can never be restored. Liberty, once lost, is lost forever.
John Adams
In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed it must be achieved.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
If ye love wealth greater than liberty, the tranquility of servitude greater than the animating contest for freedom, go home from us in peace. We seek not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you and may posterity forget that ye were once our countrymen.
Samuel Adams
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
Telling the truth will lead you to freedom telling the lies will lead you to slavery.
Jameson Green
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 can be no real individual freedom in the presence of economic insecurity.
Chester Bowles
Freedom, then, lies only in our innate human capacity to choose between different sorts of bondage, bondage to desire or self esteem, or bondage to the light that lightens all our lives.
Sri Madhava
Ultimately we know deeply that the other side of every fear is a freedom.
Marilyn Ferguson
War is Peace Freedom is Slavery Ignorance is Strength.
George Orwell, Book "1984".
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".
The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear.
Aung San Suu Kyi
All we have of freedom - - All we use or know - - This our fathers bought for us, long and long ago.
Kipling
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".
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
Land and Freedom!
Emiliano Zapata
Solitude is the beginning of all freedom.
William Orville Douglas
Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves.
William Pitt
Freedom of speech and freedom of action are meaningless without freedom to think. And there is no freedom of thought without doubt.
Bergen Evans
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
We stand for freedom. That is our conviction for ourselves that is our only commitment to others.
John F. Kennedy
In a free state there should be freedom of speech and thought.
Tiberius
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
Until you lose your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was or what freedom really is.
Margaret Mitchell
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
I believe that freedom is the deepest need of every human soul.
George W. Bush, Press Conference, White House, Tuesday, April 13, 2004
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
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
The freedom of all is essential to my freedom.
Mikhail Bakunin
Conformity is the jailer of freedom, and the enemy of growth.
John F. Kennedy
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