Freedom Quotes

Freedom is one of the deepest and noblest aspirations of the human spirit.

Ronald Reagan

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

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

I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.

James Madison

When men are brought face to face with their opponents, forced to listen and learn and mend their ideas, they cease to be children and savages and begin to live like civilized men. Then only is freedom a reality, when men may voice their opinions because they must examine their opinions.

Walter Lippmann

Freedom is a package deal - with it comes responsibilities and consequences.

Author Unknown

I know but one freedom, and that is the freedom of the mind.

Antoine de Saint - Exupery

The right to be let alone is indeed the beginning of all freedom.

Justice William O. Douglas

History suggests that Capitalism is a necessary condition for political freedom.

Milton Friedman

Only free men can negotiate; prisoners cannot enter into contracts. Your freedom and mine cannot be separated.

Nelson Mandela

Conformity is the jailer of freedom, and the enemy of growth.

John F. Kennedy

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

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

Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.

Albert Einstein

People can be in general pretty well trusted, of course - - with the clock of their freedom ticking as loud as it seems to do here - - To keep an eye on the fleeting hour.

Henry James, "The Ambassadors", Book Fifth, Chapter 2

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

Kipling

Freedom hath a thousand charms to show, That slaves however contented never know.

Cowpe

Laughter is the first evidence of freedom.

Rosario Castellanos

Just living is not enough, said the Butterfly. One must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.

Hans Christian Anderson

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

Robert Francis Kennedy

Freedom is a clear conscience.

Periande

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

The more freedom we enjoy, the greater the responsibility we bear, toward others as well as ourselves.

Oscar Arias Sanchez

How does the Meadow flower its bloom unfold Because the lovely little flower is free Down to its root, and in that freedom bold.

William Wordsworth

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

Marilyn Ferguson

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

Land and Freedom!

Emiliano Zapata

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

I want freedom for the full expression on my personality.

Mahatma Gandhi

There can be no real freedom without the freedom to fail.

Erich Fromm

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

Thucydides

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

Freedom is the opportunity to make decisions...

Kenneth Hildebrand

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 Fitzgerald Kennedy

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

William Pitt

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

Heinrich Heine

There are days when solitude, for someone my age, 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.

Colette

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

War is Peace Freedom is Slavery Ignorance is Strength.

George Orwell, Book "1984".