Freedom Quotes
History suggests that Capitalism is a necessary condition for political freedom.Milton Friedman
All great things are simple, and many can be expressed in single words: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.Sir Winston Churchill
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
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
Freedom is the opportunity to make decisions...Kenneth Hildebrand
Freedom is one of the deepest and noblest aspirations of the human spirit.Ronald Reagan
Seek freedom and become captive of your desires, seek discipline and find your liberty.Frank Herbert, Dune
Only necessity understood, and bondage to the highest is identical with true freedom.William James
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
Freedom is the right to be wrong, not the right to do wrong.John G. Riefenbake
What do you gain, Soviet Union, from this miserable policy Where is your decency Would it be a disgrace for you to give up this battle On suppression of freedom for Jews in the USSR.Golda Mei
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
There can be no real individual freedom in the presence of economic insecurity.Chester Bowles
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
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
I want freedom for the full expression on my personality.Mahatma Gandhi
Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained.James A. Garfield, July 12, 1880
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
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
Without freedom from the past, there is no freedom at all, because the mind is never new, fresh, innocent.Krishnamurti
The greatest lesson we can learn from the past... is that freedom is at the core of every successful nation in the world.Frederick Chiluba
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
Freedom is a package deal - with it comes responsibilities and consequences.Author Unknown
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
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".
People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.Soren Kierkegaard
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
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
What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly... it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as Freedom should not be highly rated.Thomas Paine
We first have to find the way of freedom from involvement before we can introduce freedom in involvement.Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan
The willingness to sacrifice is the prelude to freedom.Pesach Sede
Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves.William Pitt
I love freedom for what I can do with it, I hate freedom for what I have done with it.Christian Longe
