Freedom Quotes

We fight not to enslave, but to set a country free, and to make room upon the earth for honest men to live in.

Democratic institutions form a system of quarantine for tyrannical desires.

Like other important immigrant communities, the Jewish experience in the United States represents the ideal of freedom and the promise and opportunity of America.

Pacifists become militants. Freedom fighters become tyrants. Blessings become curses. Help becomes hindrance. More becomes less.

Freedom can occur only through education.

It's personal freedom, not hundred dollar bills that lights the soul's cigar.

Action is no less necessary than thought to the instinctive tendencies of the human frame.

True ahimsa should mean a complete freedom from ill-will and anger and hate and an overflowing love for all.

I will not stop fighting against Islam until I have achieved freedom for our country.

It was more freedom than I think most people get when they're starting out - or even when they're not starting out. He [John Cassavetes] did his thing and I did whatever I thought.

Interwoven as is the love of liberty with every ligament of your hearts, no recommendation of mine is necessary to fortify or confirm the attachment.

He loved chivalrye Trouthe and honour, freedom and curteisye.

The breath of an aristocrat is the death rattle of freedom.

I don't think all people yearn for freedom, actually. I think they yearn for stability.

Children are potentially free and their life directly embodies nothing save potential freedom. Consequently they are not things and cannot be the property either of their parents or others.

True freedom is to share All the chains our brothers wear, And, with heart and hand, to be Earnest to make others free!

Direct and easy communications — freedom of speech in all forms and in its broadest sense — has become vital to the very survival of a civilized humanity.

Now, more than ever, the Internet must be wielded along with other media to cast bright lights on all who would destroy freedom in the world.

We have freedom of speech, but you got to watch what you say.

I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt.

Liberty, then, about which so many volumes have been written is, when accurately defined, only the power of acting.

Happily for America, happily, we trust, for the whole human race, they pursued a new and more noble course. They accomplished a revolution which has no parallel in the annals of human society.

Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself.

The ruling power is always faced with the question, ‘In such and such circumstances, what would you do?’, whereas the opposition is not obliged to take responsibility or make any real decisions.

This was freedom. Losing all hope was freedom.

The moment that judgement stops through acceptance of what it is, you are free of the mind. You have made room for love, for joy, for peace.

Everywhere that freedom stirs, let tyrants fear.

The United Nations is designed to make possible lasting freedom and independence for all its members.

Pulse proximity is not intimacy.

Yes, books are dangerous. They should be dangerous - they contain ideas.

I chose America as my home because I value freedom and democracy, civil liberties and an open society.

I can remember when Democrats believed that it was the duty of America to fight for freedom over tyranny.

Wings are a constraint that makes it possible to fly.

I think my first album opened a lot of doors for me to push the freedom of speech to the limit.

The cause of liberty becomes a mockery if the price to be paid is the wholesale destruction of those who are to enjoy liberty. Ghandi, quoted in Merton, p. 68

I suggest to my students that they write under a pseudonym for a week. That allows young men to write as women, and women as men. It allows them a lot of freedom they don't have ordinarily.

The freedom of affluence opposes and contradicts the freedom of community life.

It is vain to expect virtue from women till they are in some degree independent of men.

Statism ends with an eye roll.

When a truth is not given complete freedom, freedom is not complete.

Censorship is the child of fear and the father of ignorance.

I believe that freedom of speech and freedom of religion go hand-in-hand in America.

Who is more to be pitied, a writer bound and gagged by policemen or one living in perfect freedom who has nothing more to say?

True freedom is the capacity for acting according to one's true character, to be altogether one's self, to be self-determined and not subject to outside coercion.

It is more important to be free than to be happy.

As the fly bangs against the window attempting freedom while the door stands open, so we bang against death ignoring heaven.

One certain effect of war is to diminish freedom of expression.

They who in folly or mere greed Enslaved religion, markets, laws, Borrow our language now and bid Us to speak up in freedom's cause.

Freedom is not a gift received from the State or leader, but a possession to be won every day by the effort of each and the union of all.

I've returned to being an amateur without any ties or strings attached, which gives me a freedom I never had before.