Freedom Quotes

In nature, a child finds freedom, fantasy, and privacy: a place distant from the adult world, a separate peace.

Let us rise in the moral power of womanhood; and give utterance to the voice of outraged mercy, and insulted justice, and eternal truth, and mighty love and holy freedom.

Freedom is based on truth, and no man is completely free as long as any part of his belief is based on error.

Marxists get up early to further their cause. We must get up even earlier to defend our freedom.

That freedom that Picasso afforded himself, to be an artist in a huge number of ways, seems to be a huge psychological liberation.

Not to have an adequate air force in the present state of the world is to compromise the foundations of national freedom and independence.

Freedom to a dancer means discipline. That is what technique is for -- liberation.

I preach freedom of the mind through freedom of the body; women, for example - out of the prison of corsets.

The obscure we see eventually. The completely obvious, it seems, takes longer.

We breathed the air of freedom without knowing the language or any person.

In some departments of our daily life, in which we imagine ourselves free agents, we are ruled by dictators exercising great power.

My back is thick with scars for protesting my freedom.

When we become captive to the Word of God, then we discover true freedom.

Where the world ceases to be the scene of our personal hopes and wishes, where we face it as free beings admiring, asking and observing, there we enter the realm of Art and Science.

Enlightenment is ego's ultimate disappointment.

Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it; no constitution, no law, no court can even do much to help it.

If there had been no troublemakers, no Dissenters, we should still be living in caves.

Freedom cannot be bestowed - it must be achieved.

Many lovers have been divorced By having what is free enforced.

I want freedom and I realize that the only way to get it is to quit breaking the law.

No man loses his freedom except through his own weakness.

For in the end, freedom is a personal and lonely battle; and one faces down fears of today so that those of tomorrow might be engaged.

The true opposite of depression is not gaiety or absence of pain, but vitality: the freedom to experience spontaneous feelings.

Our entire life, with our fine moral code and our precious freedom, consists ultimately in accepting ourselves as we are.

It's now very common to hear people say 'I'm rather offended by that'.

If socialism gave more prosperity than capitalism does, I would still prefer capitalism - as it gives more freedom. Luckily, though, I do not have to face this dillema.

The right to figure things out for yourself is the only true freedom everyone shares. Go use it.

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

Freedom is choosing your responsibility. It's not having no responsibilitie s; it's choosing the ones you want.

The early American knew that freedom was nothing more than the absence of external restraint on behavior; the government could not give you freedom, it could only take it away.

Man, there's another freedom out there, and it comes from somewhere else, and that somewhere else is the place I'm interested in.

Intervene globally, lose freedom locally.

Science and democracy are the right and left hands of what I'll refer to as the move from the realm of necessity to the realm of freedom.

As we all learned from the sorry experience of state-sanctioned bureaucracies in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union, decentralization in education is crucial to both freedom and excellence.

The silver trump of freedom roused in my soul eternal wakefulness.

What generates war is the economic philosophy of nationalism: embargoes, trade and foreign exchange controls, monetary devaluation, etc. The philosophy of protectionism is a philosophy of war.

The object and practice of liberty lies in the limitation of government power.

What is the essence of America? The essence of America is finding and maintaining that perfect, delicate balance between freedom "to" and freedom "from."

The revelation of thought takes men out of servitude into freedom.

The sweltering summer of the Negro's legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality.

Freedom is...the right to write the wrong words.

The Constitution provides for freedom of religion, not freedom from religion.

The principle that the end justifies the means is in individualist ethics regarded as the denial of all morals. In collectivist ethics it becomes necessarily the supreme rule.

There is only one kind of freedom and that's individual liberty. Our lives come from our creator and our liberty comes from our creator. It has nothing to do with government granting it.

It is easier to seize wealth than to produce it, and as long as the State makes the seizure of wealth a matter of legalized privilege, so long will the squabble for that privilege go on.

An open society is a society which allows its members the greatest possible degree of freedom in pursuing their interests compatible with the interests of others.

It is true you cannot eat freedom and you cannot power machinery with democracy. But then neither can political prisoners turn on the light in the cells of a dictatorship.

Whatever the issue, let freedom offer us a hundred choices, instead of having government force one answer on everyone.

The sovereignty of one's self over one's self is called Liberty.

Once conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul.