Freedom Quotes

Mahatma gandhi - the outward freedom that we shall attain will...
A. j. liebling - freedom of the press is limited to those who own...
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
Laughter is the first evidence of freedom.
Rosario Castellanos
None can love freedom heartily but good men the rest love not freedom, but license.
John Milton
The basic test of freedom is perhaps less in what we are free to do than in what we are free not to do.
Eric Hoffe
Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting.
Alan Dean Foster "To the Vanishing Point".
Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
Hannah Arendt
As it is an ancient truth that freedom cannot be legislated into existence, so it is no less obvious that freedom cannot be censored into existence.
Dwight D Eisenhowe
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
In our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either.
Mark Twain
Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure.
Bertrand Russell
All we have of freedom - - All we use or know - - This our fathers bought for us, long and long ago.
Rudyard Kipling
Many politicians lay it down as a self - Evident proposition, that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story, who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim.
Lord Macaulay
Freedom is nothing else but a chance to be better.
Albert Camus
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
A society that puts equality... ahead of freedom will end up with neither.
Milton Friedman
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)
The right to be let alone is indeed the beginning of all freedom.
Justice William O. Douglas
We must face the fact that the preservation of individual freedom is incompatible with a full satisfaction of our views of distributive justice.
Friedrich August von Hayek
Freedom is a possession of inestimable value.
Cicero
In a free state there should be freedom of speech and thought.
Tiberius
Children should be educated and instructed in the principles of freedom.
John Adams
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 is a clear conscience.
Periande
The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear.
Aung San Suu Kyi
Those who enjoy such freedoms as we enjoy, forget in time that men died to earn them.
Franklin Roosevelt
The aim of sadism is to transform a man into a thng, something animate into something inanimate, since by complete and absolute control the living loses one essential quality of life - Freedom.
Erich Fromm
I think the highest and lowest points are the important ones. Anything else is just... in between. I want the freedom to try everything.
Jim Morrison
Without freedom from the past, there is no freedom at all, because the mind is never new, fresh, innocent.
Krishnamurti
Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press and that cannot be limited without being lost.
Thomas Jefferson
As soon as laws are necessary for men, they are no longer fit for freedom.
Pythagorus
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
Freedom is from within.
Frank Lloyd Wright
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