Freedom Quotes

The mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few booted and spurred, ready to ride them legitimately, by the grace of God.

Disdain the chain, preserve your freedom; and maintain your independency: be industrious and free; be frugal and free.

Fifty-one percent of a nation can establish a totalitarian regime, suppress minorities and still remain democratic.

... unhappiness is like marriage. We believe we chose it, but then it is choosing us. That is how it is, we can do nothing about it.

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.

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

When you meet a new friend, the world has more light in it, doesn't it? Things become more spontaneous, and more full of laughing and freedom and novelty.

For the first 25 years of my life, I wanted freedom. For the next 25 years, I wanted order. For the next 25 years, I realized that order is freedom.

A politician is an animal which can sit on a fence and yet keep both ears to the ground.

The ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong, are more powerful than is generally understood. Indeed, the world is ruled by little else.

There's no greater service to this country than the defense of its freedom.

One can choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances.

The ultimate freedom for creative groups is the freedom to experiment with new ideas.

It matters not whether these weapons of ours are humane: if they gain us our freedom, they are justified before our conscience and before our God.

Only law can give us freedom.

The deepest, the intelligible, part of the nature of man is that part which does not take refuge in causality, but which chooses in freedom the good or the bad.

One certain effect of war is to diminish freedom of expression. Patriotism becomes the order of the day, and those who question the war are seen as traitors, to be silenced and imprisoned.

The only freedom that man ever has is when he becomes a slave to Jesus Christ.

Freedom is not an achievement but an opportunity.

The price of freedom is eternal vigilance and a willingness to act in its defense.

Freedom of the press is the staff of life, for any vital democracy.

God led Jesus to a cross, not a crown, and yet that cross ultimately proved to be the gateway to freedom and forgiveness for every sinner in the world.

Most of us came here in chains and most of you came here to escape your chains. Your freedom was our slavery, and therein lies the bitter difference in the way we look at life.

That feeling of freedom, open highways of possibilities, has kind of been lost to materialism and marketing.

When we give way to joy, we do not feel that we have lost control, but gained freedom.

Once we used to have to crank up our cars, now you can pop it on from inside your house. Everything has changed except how we get freedom.

The Bill of Rights is a born rebel. It reeks with sedition. In every clause it shakes its fist in the face of constituted authority. It is the one guaranty of human freedom to the American people.

Freedom of speech...Freedom of worship...Freedom from want...Freedom from fear.

Whoever comes to me, will be free and equal, because I am freedom.

Freedom may be the soul of humanity, but often you have to struggle to prove it.

A newspaper is a device for making the ignorant more ignorant and the crazy crazier.

Better to be a beggar in freedom than to be forced into compromises against my conscience.

The dimension of cultural equity needs to be added to the humane continuum of liberty, freedom of speech and religion, and social justice.

In the world of art, as in the whole of creation, freedom and progress are the main objectives.

I would rather die on my feet than live on my knees.

I set as my goal to be the best dancer I could be. Not the most famous, or the highest paid dancer, just the best I could be. Out of this discipline came great freedom and calm.

Wrong believing puts people in a prison. Right believing is a light that illuminates the path to freedom out of this prison.

I don't look at money as success. I look at it as an avenue to freedom.

We believe firmly that Communism internally and externally can and must be fought without resort to the Communist tactics of the suppression of all individual freedom.

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

I think we must get rid of slavery or we must get rid of freedom.

Anywhere, anytime ordinary people are given the chance to choose, the choice is the same: freedom, not tyranny; democracy, not dictatorship; the rule of law, not the rule of the secret police.

Freedom begins where it ends ignorance.

The man form is higher than the angel form; of all forms it is the highest. Man is the highest being in creation, because he aspires to freedom.

I have served one idea, marched under one banner - war against all imposed authority - against every kind of deprivation of freedom, in the name of the absolute independence of the individual.

Freedom is the total absence of concern about yourself.

Does freedom have a meaning if you're trapped in your ways?

I personally call the type of government which can be removed without violence 'democracy,' and the other, 'tyranny.'.

I'm for freedom, which I believe is a universal value that every human being is and that is a gift from God.

The money you have gives you freedom; the money you pursue enslaves you.