Freedom Quotes

The dignity of man is in free choice.

The disconnection of Church and State was a master stroke for freedom and harmony.

Without forgiveness, there can be no real freedom to act within a group.

The shallow, as intimated, consider liberty a release from all law, from every constraint. The wise see in it, on the contrary, the potent Law of Laws.

Secrecy begets tyranny.

Freedom comes when you see the built-in contradiction of trying to manipulate something that is going right to begin with.... Stop trying to steer the river.

I leave you, hoping that the lamp of liberty will burn in your bosoms until there shall no longer be a doubt that all mean are created free and equal.

For the coming of that day shall I fight, I and my sons and my chosen friends. For the freedom of Man. For his rights. For his life. For his honor.

You are either free or not free

You reclaim your power by loving what you were once taught to hate.

My ambition is to enjoy my life and to do exactly what I want to do. And I'll do that. I will be free.

Progress without the reasoned freedom to think and act is regression to slavery.

Rights are not easy to obtain, and once we understand this, we must work attentively and persistently - and never become careless or lazy.

Equality and freedom are not luxuries to lightly cast aside. Without them, order cannot long endure before approaching depths beyond imagining.

The vast majority of people are unthinking prejudice machines.

We have won the time lottery of the last 4 billion years.

What people have the capacity to choose, they have the ability to change.

Dreams and freedom are the same. In order for them to be, they come with a price.

The thing is this: You got to have fun while you're fightin' for freedom, 'cause you don't always win.

Our choices are truncated in evil's presence.

Our nation was built by pioneers - pioneers who accepted untold risks in pursuit of freedom, not by pioneers seeking offshore profits at the expense of American workers here at home.

I hate it that Americans are taught to fear some books and some ideas as though they were diseases.

There’s glory and honour in being chosen. But not much room for free will

Sometimes a people lose their right to remain silent when pressured to remain silent.

... how terrible is the pain of the mind and heart when the freedom of mankind is suppressed!

Actually, I am a coward. I say only what is safe to say, and I criticise only what is permissable to criticise.

Patrick Henry did not say, 'Give me absolutely safety or give me death.' America is supposed to be about freedom.

When one learns to focus energy through surrender and sensitivity, they become free, and can access the expansiveness of endless possibility.

The government is a giant logjam in the eternal river of human potential.

The First Amendment freedom of religion is as important today as when the Bill of Rights was first written.

Love and freedom are such hideous words. So many cruelties have been done in their name.

Safety is all well and good: I prefer freedom.

When public access to voting is impaired or when public confidence in voting is diluted, democracy suffers and our freedom is less secure.

I think that the sweetest freedom for a man on earth consists in being able to live, if he likes, without having the need to work.

Terrible wars have been fought where millions have died for one idea - freedom. And it seems that something that means so much to so many people would be worth having.

I'm no saint, but there are times when I simply cannot sanction freedom from responsibility.

Our difficulties launch us into new states of consciousness where we are inspired to step out of the reality of our smallest thoughts and step into the limitless freedom of our biggest dreams.

Craving security is the cause of insecurity. Freedom is knowing that the only point of arrival is now.

Men who are scandalized at the lack of freedom in Russia do not ask themselves how real is liberty among the poor, the weak, and the ignorant in capitalist society.

The very idea of freedom presupposes some objective moral law which overarches rulers and ruled alike...Unless we return to the crude and nursery-like belief in objective values, we perish.

Free of who I was, free of presence, free of dangerous fear, hope, free of mountainous wanting.

We have to make sure that we are a force for peace and stability in the world, and that we're prepared to defend freedom and the security of the American people

The more freedom is extended to business, the more prisons have to be built for those who suffer from that business.

True freedom is not about being able to do whatever we feel like doing; rather, it is about being able to do what we truly want to do, in spite of what we feel like doing at the moment.

I think that in today's world the right to privacy and freedom of the press are set on a collision course.

We cannot cut and run. If we are to ensure freedom and democracy, it is essential that we follow through on our obligation to bring about stability in Iraq.

The greatest act of self-revelation occurs when we choose what we will believe, in that space of freedom that exists between knowing that a thing is, and knowing that a thing is not.

In the marketing society, we seek fulfillment but settle for abundance. Prisoners of plenty, we have the freedom to consume instead of our freedom to find our place in the world.

I am proud and honored to be part of the America Supports You Freedom Walk to honor the victims of 9/11 and to support our men and women in uniform.

Human freedom is not an illusion; it is an objective phenomenon, distinct from all other biological conditions and found in only one species - us.