Freedom Quotes

The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission.

The freedom from something is not true freedom. The freedom to do anything you want to do is also not the freedom I am talking about. My vision of freedom is to be yourself.

It is impossible to enslave, mentally or socially, a bible-reading people. The principles of the bible are the groundwork of human freedom.

Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.

Freedom is just another word for when you have NOTHING left to lose.

Just living is not enough... one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.

Cowardice is the most terrible of vices.

Freedom of speech is a two way street, man. You have the right to say whatever you want and the Boss has a right to tell the police to arrest you.

I refuse to accept that the shackles of slavery can ever be stronger than the quest for freedom.

To serve God, to love God, to enjoy God, is the sweetest freedom in the world.

Political Freedom without economic equality is a pretense, a fraud, a lie; and the workers want no lying.

Freedom and happiness are won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control.

A big part of financial freedom is having your heart and mind free from worry about the what-ifs of life.

To me, that's the key thing, the pursuit of happiness. That's the basic, ultimate freedom.

Democracy is not a state in which people act like sheep.

Dancing: The Highest Intelligence in the Freest Body.

Freedom of movement is the very essence of our free society -- once the right to travel is curtailed, all other rights suffer.

We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought.

Freedom is too enormous to be slipped under a closet door.

I never would have agreed to the formulation of the Central Intelligence Agency back in forty-seven, if I had known it would become the American Gestapo.

Bisexuality means I am free and I am as likely to want to love a woman as I am likely to want to love a man, and what about that? Isn't that what freedom implies?

I've decided I'm going to live this life for some time to come. The freedom and simple beauty is just too good to pass up.

We fight not for glory, nor for wealth, nor honour but only and alone for freedom which no good man surrenders but with his life.

The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.

It is inaccurate to say that I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty, and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible for public office.

Democracy is also a form of worship. It is the worship of Jackals by Jackasses.

Silence is so much more productive of wisdom and clarity in thinking.

All governments are run by liars and nothing they say should be believed.

The freedom of the press is one of the great bulwarks of liberty, and can never be restrained but by despotic governments.

We, and all others who believe in freedom as deeply as we do, would rather die on our feet than live on our knees.

Freedom of speech doesn't protect speech you like; it protects speech you don't like.

People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.

Freedom is for everyone, whatever lifestyle they choose, as long as it's peaceful and honest

Children do not constitute anyone's property: they are neither the property of their parents nor even of society. They belong only to their own future freedom.

Those men and women are fortunate who are born at a time when a great struggle for human freedom is in progress.

My most basic credo is: I never said freedom was cheap. And it ain't. Never will be. It's been the highest priced and most precious commodity in my life.

When thee builds a prison, thee had better build with the thought ever in thy mind that thee and thy children may occupy the cells.

If we lose freedom here, there is no place to escape to. This is the last stand on earth.

When you abandon freedom to achieve security, you lose both and deserve neither.

America must raise an empire of permanent duration, supported upon the grand pillars of Truth, Freedom, and Religion, encouraged by the smiles of Justice and defended by her own patriotic sons.

The United States government has always been proud of the welcome it has extended to good men of every nation, seeking freedom and homes and bread.

Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.

The freedom to make and remake our cities and ourselves is, I want to argue, one of the most precious yet most neglected of our human rights.

She would be half a planet away, floating in a turquoise sea, dancing by moonlight to flamenco guitar.

The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty.

Man is born free and everywhere he is in chains.

Only the Irish working class remains as the incorruptible inheritors of the fight for freedom in Ireland.

My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together.

Humankind struggles with collective powers for its freedom, the individual struggles with dehumanization for the possession of his soul.

The press was to serve the governed, not the governors.