Freedom Quotes

Honor, justice, and humanity, forbid us tamely to surrender that freedom which we received from our gallant ancestors, and which our innocent posterity have a right to receive from us.

He hath freedom whoso beareth a clean and constant heart within.

Absolute freedom is absolute responsibility.

Politics needs a flexible mind, for it has no immutable or eternal rules. In politics immutable or eternal rules lead to inevitable and swift defeat.

As a consequence of the victories we have registered during our first ten years of freedom, we have laid a firm foundation for the new advances we must and will make during the next decade.

Women themselves have the right to live in dignity, in freedom from want and freedom from fear. On this International Women's Day, let us rededicate ourselves to making that a reality.

Trust is not bound up with knowledge so much as it is with freedom, the openness to the unknown.

Capitalists are motivated not chiefly by the desire to consume wealth or indulge their appetites, but by the freedom and power to consummate their entrepreneurial ideas.

If happiness truly consisted in physical ease and freedom from care the happiest, individual would not be either a man or a woman it; it would be, I think a cow.

Every general increase of freedom is accompanied by some degeneracy, attributable to the same causes as the freedom.

Political freedom cannot exist in any land where religion controls the state, and religious freedom cannot exist in any land where the state controls religion.

The fact is, beneath the hype, Iraqis will soon appreciate American help and idealism far more than French perfidy. It is never wrong to be on the side of freedom - never.

No people in history have ever survived who thought they could protect their freedom by making themselves inoffensive to their enemies.

What is society but an individual? [] The ocean is not society; it is individuals. This was how I managed to gain a modicum of freedom from my terror at the illusion of the ocean called the world.

The liberty of the press is not confined to newspapers and periodicals. It necessarily embraces pamphlets and leaflets.

No! on Human Rights and Freedom, on a subject that is as self-evident as that two and two make four, there is no need of any written authority.

I'm not fighting for justice. I am not fighting for freedom. I am fighting for my life and another day in the world here.

Countries are well cultivated, not as they are fertile, but as they are free.

Is anarchism desirable? Well, who does not seek freedom? What man, unless willing to declare himself in bondage, would care to call any control agreeable? Think about it!

I stand for limited government, fiscal responsibility, personal freedom, personal responsibility, so the Republican Party will support me.

My father had retained an emotional affection for the ceremonial of his parental home, without allowing it to influence his intellectual freedom

David Boaz has been my guide to the history, economics, and politics of freedom for years.

Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared.

Every day I wake up and I really try to pinch myself to take advantage of today and to use that freedom of gesture to do what I really like to do.

The freedom to speak is meaningless without the corollary freedom to keep silent.

The liberty that remains to us is essentially the freedom to choose among brands A, B, and C.

The desire of gold is not for gold. It is not the love of much wheat, and wool and household stuff. It is the means of freedom and benefit.

He who believes in freedom of the will has never loved and never hated.

Being rich is not about how much money you have or how many homes you own; it's the freedom to buy any book you want without looking at the price and wondering if you can afford it.

My philosophy is, don't take no for an answer and be willing to sacrifice your entire project for freedom.

I know zoos are no longer in people's good graces. Religion faces the same problem. Certain illusions about freedom plague them both.

False rhetoric and false boastfulness spell moral ruin and lead unfailingly to political extinction.

The question then will be, whether a consolidated government can preserve the freedom and secure the rights of the people.

Seven-and-a-half years of the weak and feckless foreign policy of Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama has weakened America's place in the world and it has emboldened the enemies of our freedom.

Our institutions of freedom will not survive unless they are constantly replenished by the faith that gave them birth.

Freedom of expression is actually a way for people to know themselves better, and to understand themselves better. Because without it, you become a stranger to yourself.

The voice of the majority is no proof of justice.

There is great freedom in simplicity of living.

There are more people living in freedom today than at any other time in the history of the human race.

I have found both freedom and safety in my madness; the freedom of loneliness and the safety from being understood, for those who understand us enslave something in us.

While the right to talk may be the beginning of freedom, the necessity of listening is what makes that right important.

We have a natural right to make use of our pens as of our tongue, at our peril, risk and hazard.

Sweet freedom whispered in my ear, you're a butterfly, and butterflies are free to fly, fly away, high-away, bye-bye.

We demand entire freedom of action and then expect the government in some miraculous way to save us from the consequences of our own acts.... Self-government means self-reliance.

The other side of every fear is a freedom.

To be free you must afford freedom to your neighbor, regardless of race, color, creed, or national origin, and that sometimes, for some, is very difficult.

Loneliness is a prerequisite for freedom. Freedom depends on the ability to reflect, and reflection can only begin when one is alone.

Tyranny and despotism can be exercised by many, more rigorously, more vigorously, and more severely, than by one.

The recovery of freedom is so splendid a thing that we must not shun even death when seeking to recover it.

It is wrong to ask who will rule. The ability to vote a bad government out of office is enough. That is democracy.