When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists; but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more.
~ John Adams ~
When we were told that by freedom we understood free enterprise, we did very little to dispel this monstrous falsehood. Wealth and economic well-being, we have asserted, are the fruits of freedom, while we should have been the first to know that this kind of "happiness" has been an unmixed blessing only in this country, and it is a minor blessing compared with the truly political freedoms, such as freedom of speech and thought, of assembly and association, even under the best conditions.
~ Hannah Arendt ~
Within yourself deliverance must be searched for, because each man makes his own prison.
~ Sir Edwin Arnold ~
A nation which makes the final sacrifice for life and freedom does not get beaten.
~ Kemal Atatürk ~
Freedom all solace to man gives: He lives at ease that freely lives.
~ John Barbour ~
In the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.
~ Bernard M. Baruch ~
Liberty is being free from the things we don't like in order to be slaves of the things we do like.
~ Ernest Benn ~
Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus.
~ Aneurin Bevan ~
Governing sense, mind and intellect, intent on liberation, free from desire, fear and anger, the sage is forever free.
~ Bhagavad Gita ~
It is our belief that if people are set free to express themselves to the fullest, their accomplishments will be far beyond their dreams, and they will not only contribute to the growth of the company, but will also be more useful citizens and contribute to the society at large.
~ Wilton M. Blount ~
The free man is he who does not fear to go to the end of his thought.
~ Leon Blum ~
Liberty is to the collective body, what health is to every individual body. Without health no pleasure can be tasted by man; without liberty, no happiness can be enjoyed by society.
~ Henry Bolingbroke ~
The cause of freedom is the cause of God.
~ Samuel Bowles ~
It will free man from his remaining chains, the chains of gravity which still tie him to this planet. It will open to him the gates of heaven.
~ Wernher Von Braun ~
Yet, Freedom! yet thy banner, torn, but flying, streams like the thunderstorm against the wind.
~ Lord Byron ~
The only conception of freedom I can have is that of the prisoner or the individual in the midst of the State. The only one I know is freedom of thought and action.
~ Albert Camus ~
Freedom Know this, that every man is free To choose his life and what he'll be. For this eternal truth is given, God will force no man to heaven. He'll call, persuade, direct aright, Bless with wisdom, love, and light; In nameless ways be good and kind, But never force the human mind.
~ William C. Clegg ~
The progress of freedom depends more upon the maintenance of peace, the spread of commerce, and the diffusion of education, than upon the labors of cabinets and foreign offices.
~ Richard Cobden ~
Perfect freedom is reserved for the man who lives by his own work and in that work does what he wants to do.
~ Robin G. Collingwood ~
You can only be free if I am free.
~ Clarence Darrow ~
If you think you're free, there's no escape possible.
~ Ram Dass ~
In the light of his vision he has found his freedom: his thoughts are peace, his words are peace and his work is peace.
~ Dhammapada ~
No man has received from nature the right to give orders to others. Freedom is a gift from heaven, and every individual of the same species has the right to enjoy it as soon as he is in enjoyment of his reason.
~ Denis Diderot ~
To be what no one ever was, to be what everyone has been: Freedom is the mean of those extremes that fence all effort in.
~ Mark Van Doren ~
He who dares not (reason), is a slave.
~ William Drummond ~
There is nothing more wonderful than freedom of speech.
~ Ilya G. Ehrenburg ~
Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.
~ Dwight D. Eisenhower ~
For what avail the plough or sail, Or land or life, if freedom fail?
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
No man is free who is not a master of himself.
~ Epictetus ~
I gave my life for freedom --this I know: For those who bade me fight had told me so.
~ W. N. Ewer ~
Freedom is just chaos with better lighting.
~ Alan Dean Foster ~
Only law can give us freedom.
~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe ~
Freedom is fragile and must be protected. To sacrifice it, even as a temporary measure, is to betray it.
~ Germaine Greer ~
We must determine whether we really want freedom -- whether we are willing to dare the perils of... rebirth... For we never take a step forward without surrendering something that we may have held dear, without dying to that which has been.
~ Virginia Hanson ~
The greatest Glory of a free-born People, Is to transmit that Freedom to their Children.
~ William Havard ~
Only very slowly and late have men come to realize that unless freedom is universal it is only extended privilege.
~ Christopher Hill ~
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 Hoffer ~
Who then is free? The one who wisely is lord of themselves, who neither poverty, death or captivity terrify, who is strong to resist his appetites and shun honors, and is complete in themselves smooth and round like a globe.
~ Horace ~
When we lose the right to be different, we lose the privilege to be free.
~ Charles Evans Hughes ~
Liberation is not deliverance.
~ Victor Hugo ~
A forest bird never wants a cage.
~ Henrik Ibsen ~
Only necessity understood, and bondage to the highest is identical with true freedom.
~ William James ~
Set me free from evil passions, and heal my heart of all inordinate affections; that being inwardly cured and thoroughly cleansed, I may be made fit to love, courageous to suffer, steady to persevere.
~ Thomas ã Kempis ~
In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I do not shrink from this responsibility -- I welcome it.
~ John F. Kennedy ~
The Negro needs the white man to free him from his fears. The white man needs the Negro to free him from his guilt.
~ Martin Luther King Jr. ~
There are two freedoms -- the false, where a man is free to do what he likes; the true, where he is free to do what he ought.
~ Charles Kingsley ~
Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose.
~ Kris Kristofferson ~
Until economic freedom is attained for everybody, there can be no real freedom for anybody.
~ Suzanne La Follette ~
What most clearly characterizes true freedom and its true employment is its misemployment.
~ Georg C. Lichtenberg ~
Freedom is the last, best hope of earth.
~ Abraham Lincoln ~
A useful definition of liberty is obtained only by seeking the principle of liberty in the main business of human life, that is to say, in the process by which men educate their responses and learn to control their environment.
~ Walter Lippmann ~
If I have freedom in my love, And in my soul am free, -- Angels alone that soar above, Enjoy such liberty.
~ Richard Lovelace ~
Freedom is hunting, feeding, danger; that, that is freedom --that it is which makes the veins to swell, the breast to heave and glowaye, that is freedom, --that is pleasure --life!
~ Marie Lovell ~
Freedom is always and exclusively freedom for the one who thinks differently.
~ Rosa Luxemburg ~
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 olives.
~ Sri Madhava ~
He is free... who knows how to keep in his own hands the power to decide.
~ Salvador De Madriaga ~
The only way we'll get freedom for ourselves is to identify ourselves with every oppressed people in the world. We are blood brothers to the people of Brazil, Venezuela, Haiti, Cuba -- yes Cuba too.
~ Malcolm X ~
There are two good things in life -- freedom of thought and freedom of action.
~ W. Somerset Maugham ~
Freedom is man's capacity to take a hand in his own development. It is our capacity to mold ourselves.
~ Rollo May ~
It is easy to believe in freedom of speech for those with whom we agree.
~ Leo Mckern ~
The only freedom which deserves the name is that of pursuing our own good, in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs, or impede their efforts to obtain it.
~ John Stuart Mill ~
Freedom! Equality! Brotherhood!
~ French Revolution Motto ~
If people have to choose between freedom and sandwiches, they will take sandwiches.
~ Lord Boyd Orr ~
I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt.
~ George Orwell ~
Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.
~ Thomas Paine ~
Freedom is the sure possession of those alone who have the courage to defend it.
~ Pericles ~
Freedom is an internal achievement rather than an external adjustment.
~ Adam Clayton Powell ~
The saving man becomes the free man.
~ Chinese Proverb ~
We look forward to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms. The first is freedom of speech and expression. The second is freedom of every person to worship God in his own way. The third is freedom from want…. The fourth is freedom from fear.
~ Franklin D. Roosevelt ~
A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue.
~ Jean Jacques Rousseau ~
Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure.
~ Bertrand Russell ~
There is no liberation without labor... and there is no freedom which is free.
~ The Siri Singh Sahib ~
It is quite possible for someone to choose incorrectly or to judge badly; but freedom must allow such mistakes.
~ Sang Kyu Shin ~
Freedom exists only with power.
~ Johann Friedrich Von Schiller ~
The bigger the information media, the less courage and freedom they allow. Bigness means weakness.
~ Eric Sevareid ~
They want to be free and they do not know how to be just.
~ Abbe Sieyes ~
By the will art thou lost, by the will art thou found, by the will art thou free, captive, and bound.
~ Angelus Silesius ~
We have confused the free with the free and easy.
~ Adlai E. Stevenson ~
We gain freedom when we have paid the full price...
~ Rabindranath Tagore ~
Freedom is knowing who you really are.
~ Linda Thomson ~
The secret of freedom, courage.
~ Thucydides ~
This is America. You can do anything here.
~ Robert E. Turner ~
The higher one climbs on the spiritual ladder, the more they will grant others their own freedom, and give less interference to another's state of consciousness.
~ Paul Twitchell ~
Freedom also includes the right to mismanage your own affairs.
~ Source Unknown ~
It is quite impossible to guarantee world peace. But is should be possible to guarantee world freedom.
~ Source Unknown ~
The true character of liberty is independence, maintained by force.
~ Voltaire ~
Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.
~ George Washington ~
Freedom -- to walk free and own no superior.
~ Walt Whitman ~
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 ~
