Freedom Quotes

Entrust everything to Me and do nothing on your own, and you will always have great freedom of spirit.

When the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free and was never free again.

So easily do weak men put in high positions turn villains.

No one outside ourselves can rule us inwardly. When we know this, we become free.

Any time we deny any citizen the full exercise of his constitutional rights, we are weakening our own claim to them.

Only freedom from prejudice and tireless zeal avail for the most holy of the endeavours of mankind, the practice of the true art of healing.

The framers of our Constitution meant we were to have freedom of religion, not freedom from religion.

To a coward, courage always looks like stupidity.

Whoever will be free must make himself free. Freedom is no fairy gift to fall into a man's lap. What is freedom? To have the will to be responsible for one's self.

Without freedom of the press, there can be no representative government.

Wings are freedom only when they are wide open in flight. On one's back they are a heavy weight.

The real rulers in Washington are invisible, and exercise power from behind the scenes.

Freedom is partial to no race. Freedom has no religion. Freedom favors no ethnicity. Freedom discriminates not between rich and poor countries. Inevitably freedom will overwhelm Ethiopia.

Dream the impossible. Know that you are born in this world to do something wonderful and unique; don't let this opportunity pass by. Give yourself the freedom to dream and think big.

Blood and tears are going to be our lot, whether we like them or not. Our blood and tears will flow; maybe the parched soil of India needs them so that the fine flower of freedom may grow again.

The reason why I hated school so intensely [was that] it interfered with my freedom.

Like a lot of Black women, I have always had to invent the power my freedom requires.

Freedom is just another word for nothing left to lose.

No one is born hating another person because of the colour of his skin, or his background, or his religion.

One can...never create [freedom] by an invading force.

Men fight for liberty and win it with hard knocks. Their children, brought up easy, let it slip away again, poor fools. And their grandchildren are once more slaves.

It is bad to be oppressed by a minority, but it is worse to be oppressed by a majority.

Freedom cannot be granted. It must be taken.

Honest history is the weapon of freedom.

For what avail the plough or sail, or land or life, if freedom fail?

The best road to progress is freedom's road.

Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage's whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free from men.

Some people say that we here have no freedom of religion, ... In reality, the people in that country are the ones who were forced to embrace a religion.

I believe we are here on the planet Earth to live, grow up and do what we can to make this world a better place for all people to enjoy freedom.

What country can preserve its liberties if its rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms.

There is a loneliness more precious than life. There is a freedom more precious than the world. Infinitely more precious than life and the world is that moment when one is alone with God.

Only oppression should fear the full exercise of freedom.

The individual who no longer has a rigid mind has found freedom. Life can be so easy. Refuse to let go and you are a person drowning; the more you struggle, the faster you sink.

There is no free society without silence, without the internal and external spaces of solitude in which the individual freedom can develop.

The well-being and the hopes of the peoples of the world can never be served until peace - as well as freedom, honor and self-respect - is secure.

Men must stop being jealous of their power and generously allow freedom and responsibility to others. The reward is harmonious families and society.

Once a man has tasted freedom he will never be content to be a slave.

The basic test of freedom is perhaps less in what we are free to do than in what we are free not to do.

There is a wonderful mythical law of nature that the three things we crave most in life-happiness, freedom and peace of mind-are always attained by giving them to someone else.

Music means freedom to me. But in acting you can pretend to be someone else and I like that.

Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.

A free people ought not only to be armed, but disciplined; to which end a uniform and well-digested plan is requisite.

You find freedom inside - nowhere else. In the heart of every being is that one space which is free, which is filled with Peace, and which is full of Love.

The challenge to America is to extend to Asia the defensive shield of American power in forms consonant with Asian freedom and self-respect.

Medicare will usher in federal programs that will invade every area of freedom as we have know it in this country.

Let me reassure that the Kingdom of Cambodia a country with independence, neutrality, peace, freedom, democracy and human rights as you all have seen, shall be existing with no end.

The day before the anniversary of D-Day, we lost a man who was equaled by few and surpassed by none as a leader in the cause of freedom: Ronald Reagan.

A well-regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.

The red and white and starry blue Is freedom's shield and hope.

For if Freedom and Communism were to compete for mans allegiance in a world at peace, I would look to the future with ever increasing confidence.