FREEDOM

Famous Quotes

Quote: It is true that liberty is precious. So precious that it must be rationed. Author: Vladimir Ilyich Lenin 1870-1924, Russian Revolutionary Leader

Quote: When I was a boy I used to do what my father wanted. Now I have to do what my boy wants. My problem is: When am I going to do what I want? Author: Samuel Levenson

Quote: What most clearly characterizes true freedom and its true employment is its misemployment. Author: Georg C. Lichtenberg 1742-1799, German Physicist, Satirist

Quote: Do not destroy that immortal emblem of humanity, the Declaration of Independence. Author: Abraham Lincoln 1809-1865, Sixteenth President of the USA

Quote: Freedom is not the right to do what we want, but what we ought. Let us have faith that right makes might and in that faith let us; to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it. Author: Abraham Lincoln 1809-1865, Sixteenth President of the USA

Quote: Freedom is the last, best hope of earth. Author: Abraham Lincoln 1809-1865, Sixteenth President of the USA

Quote: The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's throat, for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty. Author: Abraham Lincoln 1809-1865, Sixteenth President of the USA

Quote: Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves. Author: Abraham Lincoln 1809-1865, Sixteenth President of the USA

Quote: A useful definition of liberty is obtained only by seeking the principle of liberty in the main business of human life, that is to say, in the process by which men educate their responses and learn to control their environment. Author: Walter Lippmann 1889-1974, American Journalist

Quote: If I have freedom in my love, And in my soul am free, -- Angels alone that soar above, Enjoy such liberty. Author: Richard Lovelace 1618-1657, British Poet

Quote: Freedom is hunting, feeding, danger; that, that is freedom --that it is which makes the veins to swell, the breast to heave and glowaye, that is freedom, --that is pleasure --life! Author: Marie Lovell 1803-1877, British Actor, Playwright

Quote: Freedom is the only law which genius knows. Author: James Russell Lowell 1819-1891, American Poet, Critic, Editor

Quote: Mankind has a free will; but it is free to milk cows and to build houses, nothing more. Author: Martin Luther 1483-1546, German Leader of the Protestant Reformation

Quote: Freedom is always and exclusively freedom for the one who thinks differently. Author: Rosa Luxemburg 1870-1919, German Revolutionary

Quote: No man is entitled to the blessings of freedom unless he be vigilant in its preservation. Author: Douglas Macarthur 1880-1964, American Army General in WW II

Quote: A hot bath! I cry, as I sit down in it! Again as I lie flat, a hot bath! How exquisite a pleasure, how luxurious, fervid and flagrant a consolation for the rigors, the austerities, the renunciation of the day. Author: Rose Macaulay 1881-1958, British Novelist, Essayist

Quote: What is freedom? Freedom is the right to choose: the right to create for oneself the alternatives of choice. Author: Archibald Macleish 1892-1982, American Poet

Quote: Freedom, then, lies only in our innate human capacity to choose between different sorts of bondage, bondage to desire or self esteem, or bondage to the light that lightens all our olives. Author: Sri Madhava

Quote: I stand for freedom of expression, doing what you believe in, and going after your dreams. Author: Madonna 1958-, American Musician, Singer, Actress,

Quote: He is free... who knows how to keep in his own hands the power to decide. Author: Salvador De Madriaga 1886-1978, Spanish Writer, Scholar, Diplomat

Quote: Man in general, if reduced to himself, is too wicked to be free. Author: Joseph De Maistre 1753-1821, French Diplomat, Philosopher

Quote: I believe in a religion that believes in freedom. Any time I have to accept a religion that won't let me fight a battle for my people, I say to hell with that religion. Author: Malcolm X 1925-1965, American Black Leader, Activist

Quote: If you're not ready to die for it, put the word ''freedom'' out of your vocabulary. Author: Malcolm X 1925-1965, American Black Leader, Activist

Quote: Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it. Author: Malcolm X 1925-1965, American Black Leader, Activist

Quote: The only way we'll get freedom for ourselves is to identify ourselves with every oppressed people in the world. We are blood brothers to the people of Brazil, Venezuela, Haiti, Cuba -- yes Cuba too. Author: Malcolm X 1925-1965, American Black Leader, Activist

Quote: When a person places the proper value on freedom, there is nothing under the sun that he will not do to acquire that freedom. Whenever you hear a man saying he wants freedom, but in the next breath he is going to tell you what he won't do to get it, or what he doesn't believe in doing in order to get it, he doesn't believe in freedom. A man who believes in freedom will do anything under the sun to acquire... or preserve his freedom. Author: Malcolm X 1925-1965, American Black Leader, Activist

Quote: You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom. Author: Malcolm X 1925-1965, American Black Leader, Activist

Quote: You don't have to be a man to fight for freedom. All you have to do is to be an intelligent human being. Author: Malcolm X 1925-1965, American Black Leader, Activist

Quote: Let freedom reign. The sun never set on so glorious a human achievement. Author: Nelson Mandela 1918-, South African President

Quote: Any nation that thinks more of its ease and comfort than its freedom will soon lose its freedom; and the ironical thing about it is that it will lose its ease and comfort too. Author: W. Somerset Maugham 1874-1965, British Novelist, Playwright

Quote: If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom: and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that, too. Author: W. Somerset Maugham 1874-1965, British Novelist, Playwright

Quote: There are two good things in life -- freedom of thought and freedom of action. Author: W. Somerset Maugham 1874-1965, British Novelist, Playwright

Quote: Freedom is man's capacity to take a hand in his own development. It is our capacity to mold ourselves. Author: Rollo May American Psychologist

Quote: It requires greater courage to preserve inner freedom, to move on in one's inward journey into new realms, than to stand defiantly for outer freedom. It is often easier to play the martyr, as it is to be rash in battle. Author: Rollo May American Psychologist

Quote: It is easy to believe in freedom of speech for those with whom we agree. Author: Leo Mckern

Quote: We must be willing to pay a price for freedom. Author: H. L. Mencken 1880-1956, American Editor, Author, Critic, Humorist

Quote: The only freedom which deserves the name is that of pursuing our own good, in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs, or impede their efforts to obtain it. Author: John Stuart Mill 1806-1873, British Philosopher, Economist

Quote: None can love freedom heartily, but good men... the rest love not freedom, but license. Author: John Milton 1608-1674, British Poet

Quote: Countries are well cultivated, not as they are fertile, but as they are free. Author: Charles De Montesquieu 1689-1755, French Jurist, Political Philosopher

Quote: There's something contagious about demanding freedom. Author: Robin Morgan 1941-, American Feminist Author, Poet

Quote: Freedom! Equality! Brotherhood! Author: French Revolution Motto

Quote: Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power. Author: John Adams 1735-1826, Second President of the USA

Quote: Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other. Author: John Adams 1735-1826, Second President of the USA

Quote: When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists; but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more. Author: John Adams 1735-1826, Second President of the USA

Quote: Yesterday the greatest question was decided which ever was debated in America; and a greater perhaps never was, nor will be, decided among men. A resolution was passed without one dissenting colony, ''that these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent States.'' Author: John Adams 1735-1826, Second President of the USA

Quote: Freedom is the emancipation from the arbitrary rule of other men. Author: Mortimer J. Adler 1902-, American Educator, Philosopher

Quote: When we were told that by freedom we understood free enterprise, we did very little to dispel this monstrous falsehood. Wealth and economic well-being, we have asserted, are the fruits of freedom, while we should have been the first to know that this kind of ''happiness'' has been an unmixed blessing only in this country, and it is a minor blessing compared with the truly political freedoms, such as freedom of speech and thought, of assembly and association, even under the best conditions. Author: Hannah Arendt 1906-1975, German-born American Political Philosopher

Quote: Democracy arose from men's thinking that if they are equal in any respect, they are equal absolutely. Author: Aristotle BC 384-322, Greek Philosopher

Quote: Within yourself deliverance must be searched for, because each man makes his own prison. Author: Sir Edwin Arnold 1832-1904, British Poet, Journalist

Quote: A nation which makes the final sacrifice for life and freedom does not get beaten. Author: Kemal Atatnrk 1881-1938, Founder, President of Turkey

Quote: He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he be a king. Author: St. Augustine 354-430, Numidian-born Bishop of Hippo, Theologian

Quote: The fly that touches honey cannot use it's wings; so too the soul that clings to spiritual sweetness ruins it's freedom and hinders contemplation. Author: Ghose Aurobindo 1872-1950, Philosopher

Quote: Any honest examination of the national life proves how far we are from the standard of human freedom with which we began. The recovery of this standard demands of everyone who loves this country a hard look at himself, for the greatest achievements must begin somewhere, and they always begin with the person. If we are not capable of this examination, we may yet become one of the most distinguished and monumental failures in the history of nations. Author: James Baldwin 1924-1987, American Author

Quote: The oppression of any people for opinion's sake has rarely had any other effect than to fix those opinions deeper, and render them more important. Author: Hosea Ballou 1771-1852, American Theologian, Founder of ''Universalism''

Quote: Freedom all solace to man gives: He lives at ease that freely lives. Author: John Barbour 1320-1395, Scottish Poet

Quote: What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage. Author: Bruce Barton 1886-1967, American Author, Advertising Executive

Quote: In the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves. Author: Bernard M. Baruch 1870-1965, American Financier

Quote: The greatest blessing of our democracy is freedom. But in the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves. Author: Bernard M. Baruch 1870-1965, American Financier

Quote: As for freedom, it will soon cease to exist in any shape or form. Living will depend upon absolute obedience to a strict set of arrangements, which it will no longer be possible to transgress. The air traveler is not free. In the future, life's passengers will be even less so: they will travel through their lives fastened to their (corporate) seats. Author: Jean Baudrillard French Postmodern Philosopher, Writer

Quote: True obedience is true freedom. Author: Henry Ward Beecher 1813-1887, American Preacher, Orator, Writer

Quote: There are always risks in freedom. The only risk in bondage is breaking free. Author: Gita Bellin

Quote: Liberty is being free from the things we don't like in order to be slaves of the things we do like. Author: Ernest Benn

Quote: Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus. Author: Aneurin Bevan 1897-1960, British Labor Politician

Quote: Governing sense, mind and intellect, intent on liberation, free from desire, fear and anger, the sage is forever free. Author: Bhagavad Gita c. BC 400-, Sanskrit Poem Incorporated Into the Mahabharata

Quote: It is our belief that if people are set free to express themselves to the fullest, their accomplishments will be far beyond their dreams, and they will not only contribute to the growth of the company, but will also be more useful citizens and contribute to the society at large. Author: Wilton M. Blount American Businessman, Founder of Blount, Inc.

Quote: The free man is he who does not fear to go to the end of his thought. Author: Leon Blum 1872-1950, French Statesman and Prime Minister

Quote: Liberty is to the collective body, what health is to every individual body. Without health no pleasure can be tasted by man; without liberty, no happiness can be enjoyed by society. Author: Henry Bolingbroke 1678-1751, British Politician

Quote: The cause of freedom is the cause of God. Author: Samuel Bowles American Author

Quote: It will free man from his remaining chains, the chains of gravity which still tie him to this planet. It will open to him the gates of heaven. Author: Wernher Von Braun 1912-1977, German Rocket Pioneer

Quote: Freedom is poetry, taking liberties with words, breaking the rules of normal speech, violating common sense. Freedom is violence. Author: Norman O. Brown 1913-, American Philosopher

Quote: Whatever the price, identify it now. What will you have to go through to get where you want to be? There is a price you can pay to be free of the situation once and for all. It may be a fantastic price or a tiny one -- but there is a price. Author: Harry Browne 1933-, American Financial Advisor, Writer

Quote: So free we seem, so fettered we are! Author: Robert Browning 1812-1889, British Poet

Quote: None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free. Author: Pearl S. Buck 1892-1973, American Novelist

Quote: When ever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither is safe. Author: Edmund Burke 1729-1797, British Political Writer, Statesman

Quote: If we wish to free ourselves from enslavement, we must choose freedom and the responsibility this entails. Author: Leo Buscaglia American Expert on Love, Lecturer, Author

Quote: Yet, Freedom! yet thy banner, torn, but flying, streams like the thunderstorm against the wind. Author: Lord Byron 1788-1824, British Poet

Quote: Freedom is nothing else but a chance to be better. Author: Albert Camus 1913-1960, French Existential Writer

Quote: The only conception of freedom I can have is that of the prisoner or the individual in the midst of the State. The only one I know is freedom of thought and action. Author: Albert Camus 1913-1960, French Existential Writer

Quote: Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others. But without freedom, no socialism either, except the socialism of the gallows. Author: Albert Camus 1913-1960, French Existential Writer

Quote: For me, the principal fact of life is the free mind. For good and evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a world in continuous creation and therefore continuous change and insecurity. A perpetually new and lively world, but a dangerous one, full of tragedy and injustice. A world in everlasting conflict between the new idea and the old allegiances, new arts and new inventions against the old establishment. Author: Joyce Cary 1888-1957, British Author

Quote: Liberty is one of the most precious gifts which heaven has bestowed on man; with it we cannot compare the treasures which the earth contains or the sea conceals; for liberty, as for honor, we can and ought to risk our lives; and, on for the other hand, captivity is the greatest evil that can befall man. Author: Miguel De Cervantes 1547-1616, Spanish Novelist, Dramatist, Poet

Quote: Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with keener fangs than freedom never endangered. Author: Marcus T. Cicero c. 106-43 BC, Great Roman Orator, Politician

Quote: What we want is not freedom but its appearances. It is for these simulacra that man has always striven. And since freedom, as has been said, is no more than a sensation, what difference is there between being free and believing ourselves free? Author: E. M. Cioran 1911-, Rumanian-born French Philosopher

Quote: Freedom Know this, that every man is free To choose his life and what he'll be. For this eternal truth is given, God will force no man to heaven. He'll call, persuade, direct aright, Bless with wisdom, love, and light; In nameless ways be good and kind, But never force the human mind. Author: William C. Clegg

Quote: Just as war is freedom's cost, disagreement is freedom's privilege. Author: Bill Clinton 1946-, Forty-second President of the USA

Quote: The progress of freedom depends more upon the maintenance of peace, the spread of commerce, and the diffusion of education, than upon the labors of cabinets and foreign offices. Author: Richard Cobden 1804-1865, British Radical Politician

Quote: Perfect freedom is reserved for the man who lives by his own work and in that work does what he wants to do. Author: Robin G. Collingwood 1889-1943, British Historian, Philosopher

Quote: Liberty will not descend to a people; a people must raise themselves to liberty; it is a blessing that must be earned before it can be enjoyed. Author: Charles Caleb Colton 1780-1832, British Sportsman Writer

Quote: Tyrants have not yet discovered any chains that can fetter the mind. Author: Charles Caleb Colton 1780-1832, British Sportsman Writer

Quote: Every general increase of freedom is accompanied by some degeneracy, attributable to the same causes as the freedom. Author: Charles Horton Cooley 1864-1929, American Sociologist

Quote: No matter what a man does, he is not fully sane or human unless there is a spirit of freedom in him, a soul unconfined by purpose and larger than the practicable world. Author: Charles Horton Cooley 1864-1929, American Sociologist

Quote: Our ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide how anybody or anything outside ourselves will affect us. Author: Stephen R. Covey American Speaker, Trainer, Author of ''The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People''

Quote: People who exercise their embryonic freedom day after day, little by little, expand that freedom. People who do not will find that it withers until they are literally ''being lived.'' They are acting out scripts written by parents, associates and society. Author: Stephen R. Covey American Speaker, Trainer, Author of ''The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People''

Quote: You can only be free if I am free. Author: Clarence Darrow 1857-1938, American Lawyer

Quote: You can protect your liberties in this world only by protecting the other man's freedom. You can be free only if I am free. Author: Clarence Darrow 1857-1938, American Lawyer

Quote: If you think you're free, there's no escape possible. Author: Ram Dass American Spiritual Author, Lecturer

Quote: In the light of his vision he has found his freedom: his thoughts are peace, his words are peace and his work is peace. Author: Dhammapada BC 300-, Buddhist Collection of Moral Aphorism

Quote: The traveler has reached the end of the journey! In the freedom of the infinite he is free from all sorrows, the fetters that bound him are thrown away, and the burning fever of life is no more. Author: Dhammapada BC 300-, Buddhist Collection of Moral Aphorism

Quote: No man has received from nature the right to give orders to others. Freedom is a gift from heaven, and every individual of the same species has the right to enjoy it as soon as he is in enjoyment of his reason. Author: Denis Diderot 1713-1784, French Philosopher

Quote: To be what no one ever was, to be what everyone has been: Freedom is the mean of those extremes that fence all effort in. Author: Mark Van Doren 1894-1972, American Poet, Critic

Quote: He who dares not (reason), is a slave. Author: William Drummond 1585-1649, Celtic Poet

Quote: We are living in the excesses of freedom. Just take a look at 42nd Street an Broadway. Author: William J. Durant 1885-1981, American Historian, Essayist

Quote: Freedom means you are unobstructed in living your life as you choose. Anything less is a form of slavery. Author: Wayne Dyer 1940-, American Psychotherapist, Author, Lecturer

Quote: There is nothing more wonderful than freedom of speech. Author: Ilya G. Ehrenburg 1891-1967, Ukrainian Writer

Quote: History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid. Author: Dwight D. Eisenhower 1890-1969, Thirty-fourth President of the USA

Quote: Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free. Author: Dwight D. Eisenhower 1890-1969, Thirty-fourth President of the USA

Quote: Liberty is a different kind of pain from prison. Author: T. S. Eliot 1888-1965, American-born British Poet, Critic

Quote: For what avail the plough or sail, Or land or life, if freedom fail? Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist

Quote: Liberty is slow fruit. It is never cheap; it is made difficult because freedom is the accomplishment and perfectness of man. Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist

Quote: Nothing is more disgusting than the crowing about liberty by slaves, as most men are, and the flippant mistaking for freedom of some paper preamble like a Declaration of Independence, or the statute right to vote, by those who have never dared to think or to act. Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist

Quote: So far as a person thinks; they are free. Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist

Quote: Freedom is the right to live as we wish. Author: Epictetus 50-120, Stoic Philosopher

Quote: Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else. Author: Epictetus 50-120, Stoic Philosopher

Quote: No man is free who is not a master of himself. Author: Epictetus 50-120, Stoic Philosopher

Quote: No one is truly free, they are a slave to wealth, fortune, the law, or other people restraining them from acting according to their will. Author: Euripides BC 480-406, Greek Tragic Poet

Quote: No one who lives in error is free. Author: Euripides BC 480-406, Greek Tragic Poet

Quote: I gave my life for freedom --this I know: For those who bade me fight had told me so. Author: W. N. Ewer 1885-1976, British Journalist

Quote: Ultimately we know deeply that the other side of fear is a freedom. Author: Marilyn Ferguson American Writer

Quote: Freedom is just chaos with better lighting. Author: Alan Dean Foster

Quote: To be thrown upon one's own resources, is to be cast into the very lap of fortune; for our faculties then undergo a development and display an energy of which they were previously unsusceptible. Author: Benjamin Franklin 1706-1790, American Scientist, Publisher, Diplomat

Quote: A major source of objection to a free economy is precisely that group thinks they ought to want. Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself. Author: Milton Friedman 1912-, American Economist

Quote: Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err. It passes my comprehension how human beings, be they ever so experienced and able, can delight in depriving other human beings of that precious right. Author: Mahatma Gandhi 1869-1948, Indian Political, Spiritual Leader

Quote: The moment the slave resolves that he will no longer be a slave. His fetters fall... freedom and slavery are mental states. Author: Mahatma Gandhi 1869-1948, Indian Political, Spiritual Leader

Quote: Liberty has restraints but no frontiers. Author: David Lloyd George 1863-1945, British Statesman, Prime Minister

Quote: Liberty is not merely a privilege to be conferred; it is a habit to be acquired. Author: David Lloyd George 1863-1945, British Statesman, Prime Minister

Quote: You can muffle the drum, and you can loosen the strings of the lyre, but who shall command the skylark not to sing? Author: Kahlil Gibran 1883-1931, Lebanese Poet, Novelist

Quote: There should be a sympathy with freedom, a desire to give it scope, founded not upon visionary ideas, but upon the long experience of many generations within the shores of this happy isle, that in freedom you lay the firmest foundations both of loyalty and order. Author: William E. Gladstone 1809-1888, British Liberal Prime Minister, Statesman

Quote: Freedom consists not in refusing to recognize anything above us, but in respecting something which is above us; for by respecting it, we raise ourselves to it, and, by our very acknowledgment, prove that we bear within ourselves what is higher, and are worthy to be on a level with it Author: Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe 1749-1832, German Poet, Dramatist, Novelist

Quote: Only law can give us freedom. Author: Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe 1749-1832, German Poet, Dramatist, Novelist

Quote: Yes! To this thought I hold with firm persistence; The last result of wisdom stamps it true; He only earns his freedom and existence Who daily conquers them anew. Author: Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe 1749-1832, German Poet, Dramatist, Novelist

Quote: Freedom is fragile and must be protected. To sacrifice it, even as a temporary measure, is to betray it. Author: Germaine Greer 1939-, Australian Feminist Writer

Quote: When the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free and was never free again. Author: Edith Hamilton 1867-1963, American Classical Scholar, Translator

Quote: We must determine whether we really want freedom -- whether we are willing to dare the perils of... rebirth... For we never take a step forward without surrendering something that we may have held dear, without dying to that which has been. Author: Virginia Hanson

Quote: The greatest Glory of a free-born People, Is to transmit that Freedom to their Children. Author: William Havard

Quote: The East knew and to the present day knows only that One is Free; the Greek and the Roman world, that some are free; the German World knows that All are free. The first political form therefore which we observe in History, is Despotism, the second Democracy and Aristocracy, the third, Monarchy. Author: Georg Hegel 1770-1831, German Philosopher

Quote: The history of the world is none other than the progress of the consciousness of freedom. Author: Georg Hegel 1770-1831, German Philosopher

Quote: I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul. Author: William Ernest Henley 1849-1903, British Poet, Critic, Editor

Quote: Perfect freedom is as necessary to the health and vigor of commerce as it is to the health and vigor of citizenship. Author: Patrick Henry 1736-1799, American Orator, Patriot

Quote: Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty. Author: Frank Herbert 1920-1986, American Writer

Quote: Freedom is the opportunity to make decisions... Author: Kenneth Hildebrand American Author

Quote: Only very slowly and late have men come to realize that unless freedom is universal it is only extended privilege. Author: Christopher Hill 1912-, British Historian

Quote: The basic test of freedom is perhaps less in what we are free to do than in what we are free not to do. Author: Eric Hoffer 1902-1983, American Author, Philosopher

Quote: There can be no real freedom without the freedom to fail. Author: Eric Hoffer 1902-1983, American Author, Philosopher

Quote: Freedom is the open window through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit and human dignity. Author: Herbert Clark Hoover 1874-1964, American - 31st American President

Quote: We are free to yield to truth. Author: Horace BC 65-8, Italian Poet

Quote: Who then is free? The one who wisely is lord of themselves, who neither poverty, death or captivity terrify, who is strong to resist his appetites and shun honors, and is complete in themselves smooth and round like a globe. Author: Horace BC 65-8, Italian Poet

Quote: Who then is free? The wise man who can govern himself. Author: Horace BC 65-8, Italian Poet

Quote: Freedom begins as we become conscious of it. Author: Vernon Howard 19?-1992, American Author, Speaker

Quote: We clearly realize that freedom's inner kingdom cannot be touched by exterior attacks. Author: Vernon Howard 19?-1992, American Author, Speaker

Quote: American freedom consists largely in talking nonsense. Author: Edgar Watson Howe 1853-1937, American Journalist, Author

Quote: Freedom is a condition of mind, and the best way to secure it is to breed it. Author: Elbert Hubbard 1859-1915, American Author, Publisher

Quote: When we lose the right to be different, we lose the privilege to be free. Author: Charles Evans Hughes 1862-1948, American Jurist, Politician

Quote: Liberation is not deliverance. Author: Victor Hugo 1802-1885, French Poet, Dramatist, Novelist

Quote: Freedom is but the possibility of a various and indefinite activity; while government, or the exercise of dominion, is a single, yet real activity. The longing for freedom, therefore, is at first only too frequently suggested by the deep-felt consciousness of its absence. Author: Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt 1767-1835, German Statesman, Philologist

Quote: Freedom is the most contagious virus known to man. Author: Hubert H. Humphrey 1911-1978, American Democratic Politician, Vice President

Quote: A forest bird never wants a cage. Author: Henrik Ibsen 1828-1906, Norwegian Dramatist

Quote: Only necessity understood, and bondage to the highest is identical with true freedom. Author: William James 1842-1910, American Psychologist, Professor, Author

Quote: The will of the people is the only legitimate foundation of any government, and to protect its free expression should be our first object. Author: Thomas Jefferson 1743-1826, Third President of the USA

Quote: If we catch a glimpse of freedom, we wish to possess it; if we catch a glimpse of death, we want nothing to do with it. One we cannot have, the other we cannot avoid. Author: Jeremy P. Johnson

Quote: The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom. Author: Lady Bird Johnson

Quote: All theory is against freedom of the will; all experience for it. Author: Samuel Johnson 1709-1784, British Author

Quote: Set me free from evil passions, and heal my heart of all inordinate affections; that being inwardly cured and thoroughly cleansed, I may be made fit to love, courageous to suffer, steady to persevere. Author: Thomas p Kempis 1379-1471, German Monk, Mystic, Religious Writer

Quote: In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I do not shrink from this responsibility -- I welcome it. Author: John F. Kennedy 1917-1963, Thirty-fifth President of the USA

Quote: 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. Author: John F. Kennedy 1917-1963, Thirty-fifth President of the USA

Quote: The unity of freedom has never relied on uniformity of opinion. Author: John F. Kennedy 1917-1963, Thirty-fifth President of the USA

Quote: The free way of life proposes ends, but it does not prescribe means. Author: Robert F. Kennedy 1925-1968, American Attorney General, Senator

Quote: Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed. Author: Martin Luther King Jr. 1929-1968, American Black Leader, Nobel Prize Winner, 1964

Quote: The Negro needs the white man to free him from his fears. The white man needs the Negro to free him from his guilt. Author: Martin Luther King Jr. 1929-1968, American Black Leader, Nobel Prize Winner, 1964

Quote: When we let freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of that old Negro spiritual, ''Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!'' Author: Martin Luther King Jr. 1929-1968, American Black Leader, Nobel Prize Winner, 1964

Quote: There are two freedoms -- the false, where a man is free to do what he likes; the true, where he is free to do what he ought. Author: Charles Kingsley 1819-1875, British Author, Clergyman

Quote: All we have of freedom -- all we use or know -- this our fathers bought for us, long and long ago. Author: Rudyard Kipling 1865-1936, British Author of Prose, Verse

Quote: Freedom and love go together. Love is not a reaction. If I love you because you love me, that is mere trade, a thing to be bought in the market; it is not love. To love is not to ask anything in return, not even to feel that you are giving something- and it is only such love that can know freedom. Author: Jiddu Krishnamurti 1895-1986, Indian Theosophist

Quote: Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose. Author: Kris Kristofferson 1936-, American Singer, Songwriter

Quote: Until economic freedom is attained for everybody, there can be no real freedom for anybody. Author: Suzanne La Follette

Quote: Men are free when they are in a living homeland, not when they are straying and breaking away. Men are free when they are obeying some deep, inward voice of religious belief. Obeying from within. Men are free when they belong to a living, organic, believing community, active in fulfilling some unfulfilled, perhaps unrealized purpose. Not when they are escaping to some wild west. The most unfree souls go west, and shout of freedom. Men are freest when they are most unconscious of freedom. The shout is a rattling of chains, always was. Author: D. H. Lawrence 1885-1930, British Author

Quote: Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners. Author: Vladimir Ilyich Lenin 1870-1924, Russian Revolutionary Leader

Quote: How is freedom measured, in individuals as in nations? By the resistance which has to be overcome, by the effort it costs to stay aloft. One would have to seek the highest type of free man where the greatest resistance is constantly being overcome: five steps from tyranny, near the threshold of the danger of servitude. Author: Friedrich Nietzsche 1844-1900, German Philosopher

Quote: Yet we can maintain a free society only if we recognize that in a free society no one can win all the time. No one can have his own way all the time, and no one is right all the time. Author: Richard M. Nixon 1913-1994, Thirty-seventh President of the USA

Quote: If people have to choose between freedom and sandwiches, they will take sandwiches. Author: Lord Boyd Orr 1880-1971, Scottish Biologist

Quote: Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows. Author: George Orwell 1903-1950, British Author, ''Animal Farm''

Quote: I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt. Author: George Orwell 1903-1950, British Author, ''Animal Farm''

Quote: Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it. Author: Thomas Paine 1737-1809, Anglo-American Political Theorist, Writer

Quote: We fight not to enslave, but to set a country free, and to make room upon the earth for honest men to live in. Author: Thomas Paine 1737-1809, Anglo-American Political Theorist, Writer

Quote: It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have everything one wants. Author: Blaise Pascal 1623-1662, French Scientist, Religious Philosopher

Quote: Freedom is the sure possession of those alone who have the courage to defend it. Author: Pericles BC 495-429, Athenian Statesman

Quote: Is any man free except the one who can pass his life as he pleases? Author: Persius 34-62 AD, Satirical Poet

Quote: The sovereignty of one's self over one's self is called Liberty. Author: Albert Pike 1809-1891, American Lawyer, Masonic Author, Historian

Quote: A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him. Author: Ezra Pound 1885-1972, American Poet, Critic

Quote: Freedom is an internal achievement rather than an external adjustment. Author: Adam Clayton Powell African-American politician

Quote: The saving man becomes the free man. Author: Chinese Proverb Sayings of Chinese Origin

Quote: I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and democracy -- but that could change. Author: Dan Quayle 1947-, American Politician, Vice-President

Quote: Freedom prospers when religion is vibrant and the rule of law under God is acknowledged. Author: Ronald Reagan 1911-, Fortieth President of the USA, Actor

Quote: It is for each of us freely to choose whom we shall serve, and find in that obedience our freedom. Author: Mary Caroline Richards

Quote: Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds. Author: Franklin D. Roosevelt 1882-1945, Thirty-second President of the USA

Quote: True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made. Author: Franklin D. Roosevelt 1882-1945, Thirty-second President of the USA

Quote: We look forward to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms. The first is freedom of speech and expression. The second is freedom of every person to worship God in his own way. The third is freedom from want…. The fourth is freedom from fear. Author: Franklin D. Roosevelt 1882-1945, Thirty-second President of the USA

Quote: We, and all others who believe in freedom as deeply as we do, would rather die on our feet than live on our knees. Author: Franklin D. Roosevelt 1882-1945, Thirty-second President of the USA

Quote: A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue. Author: Jean Jacques Rousseau 1712-1778, Swiss Political Philosopher, Educationist, Essayist

Quote: Free people, remember this maxim: We may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lost. Author: Jean Jacques Rousseau 1712-1778, Swiss Political Philosopher, Educationist, Essayist

Quote: Man is born free, yet he is everywhere in chains. Author: Jean Jacques Rousseau 1712-1778, Swiss Political Philosopher, Educationist, Essayist

Quote: The English think they are free. They are free only during the election of members of parliament. Author: Jean Jacques Rousseau 1712-1778, Swiss Political Philosopher, Educationist, Essayist

Quote: Freedom is only granted us that obedience may be more perfect. Author: John Ruskin 1819-1900, British Critic, Social Theorist

Quote: Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure. Author: Bertrand Russell 1872-1970, British Philosopher, Mathematician, Essayist

Quote: Women, like men, ought to have their youth so glutted with freedom they hate the very idea of freedom. Author: Vita Sackville-West 1892-1962, British Novelist, Poet

Quote: There is no liberation without labor... and there is no freedom which is free. Author: The Siri Singh Sahib

Quote: I know but one freedom and that is the freedom of the mind. Author: Antoine De Saint-Exupery 1900-1944, French Aviator, Writer

Quote: It is quite possible for someone to choose incorrectly or to judge badly; but freedom must allow such mistakes. Author: Sang Kyu Shin Chinese Activist

Quote: A man is morally free when, in full possession of his living humanity, he judges the world, and judges other men, with uncompromising sincerity. Author: George Santayana 1863-1952, American Philosopher, Poet

Quote: Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you. Author: Jean-Paul Sartre 1905-1980, French Writer, Philosopher

Quote: Freedom exists only with power. Author: Johann Friedrich Von Schiller 1759-1805, German Dramatist, Poet, Historian

Quote: Where there is much freedom there is much error. Author: Johann Friedrich Von Schiller 1759-1805, German Dramatist, Poet, Historian

Quote: There's only one free person in this society, and he is white and male. Author: Hazel Scott 1920-1981, American Entertainer

Quote: Freedom is not being a slave to any circumstance, to any constraint, to any chance; it means compelling Fortune to enter the lists on equal terms. Author: Seneca 4 B.C. – 65 A.D., Spanish-born Roman Statesman, philosopher

Quote: He who is brave is free. Author: Seneca 4 B.C. – 65 A.D., Spanish-born Roman Statesman, philosopher

Quote: The bigger the information media, the less courage and freedom they allow. Bigness means weakness. Author: Eric Sevareid 1912-1992, American Broadcast Journalist

Quote: They want to be free and they do not know how to be just. Author: Abbe Sieyes

Quote: By the will art thou lost, by the will art thou found, by the will art thou free, captive, and bound. Author: Angelus Silesius

Quote: Only that thing is free which exists by the necessities of its own nature, and is determined in its actions by itself alone. Author: Baruch (Benedict de) Spinoza 1632-1677, Dutch Philosopher and Theologian

Quote: A hungry man is not a free man. Author: Adlai E. Stevenson 1900-1965, American Lawyer, Politician

Quote: Freedom is not an ideal, it is not even a protection, if it means nothing more than freedom to stagnate, to live without dreams, to have no greater aim than a second car and another television set. Author: Adlai E. Stevenson 1900-1965, American Lawyer, Politician

Quote: We have confused the free with the free and easy. Author: Adlai E. Stevenson 1900-1965, American Lawyer, Politician

Quote: Every emancipation has in it the seeds of a new slavery, and every truth easily becomes a lie. Author: I. F. Stone 1907-1989, American Author

Quote: Bondage is... subjection to external influences and internal negative thoughts and attitudes. Author: W. Clement Stone 1902-, American Businessman, Author

Quote: Emancipation from the bondage of the soil is no freedom for the tree. Author: Rabindranath Tagore 1861-1941, Indian Poet, Philosopher

Quote: We gain freedom when we have paid the full price... Author: Rabindranath Tagore 1861-1941, Indian Poet, Philosopher

Quote: We are all of us the worse for too much liberty. Author: Terence BC 185-18159, Roman Writer of Comedies

Quote: Freedom is knowing who you really are. Author: Linda Thomson

Quote: The law will never make men free, it is men that have to make the law free. Author: Henry David Thoreau 1817-1862, American Essayist, Poet, Naturalist

Quote: The secret of freedom, courage. Author: Thucydides BC 460-400, Greek Historian of Athens

Quote: This is America. You can do anything here. Author: Robert E. Turner American Cable-TV Pioneer

Quote: It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either. Author: Mark Twain 1835-1910, American Humorist, Writer

Quote: The higher one climbs on the spiritual ladder, the more they will grant others their own freedom, and give less interference to another's state of consciousness. Author: Paul Twitchell

Quote: A slave is a free man if he is content with his lot; a free man is a slave if he seeks more than that. Author: Source Unknown

Quote: Free will is not the liberty to do whatever one likes, but the power of doing whatever one sees ought to be done, even in the very face of otherwise overwhelming impulse. There lies freedom, indeed. Author: Source Unknown

Quote: Freedom also includes the right to mismanage your own affairs. Author: Source Unknown

Quote: It is my right to be uncommon. For I do not choose to be a common man, If I can, I seek opportunity. I do not wish to be a kept citizen, humbled and dulled by having the government look after me. I choose to take the calculated risk, to dream, to build, to fail or succeed. I choose not to barter incentive for a dole, I prefer the challenges of life to a guaranteed existence, the thrill of fulfillment to the state calm of Utopia. I will not trade my freedom for beneficence nor my dignity for a handout. Author: Source Unknown

Quote: It is quite impossible to guarantee world peace. But is should be possible to guarantee world freedom. Author: Source Unknown

Quote: Liberty is the right to choose, freedom is the result of that choice. Author: Source Unknown

Quote: The foolish and the uneducated have little use for freedom. Author: Source Unknown

Quote: The grass is always greener where the fence isn't. Author: Source Unknown

Quote: It is hard to free fools from the chains they revere. Author: Voltaire 1694-1778, French Historian, Writer

Quote: Liberty, then, about which so many volumes have been written is, when accurately defined, only the power of acting. Author: Voltaire 1694-1778, French Historian, Writer

Quote: The true character of liberty is independence, maintained by force. Author: Voltaire 1694-1778, French Historian, Writer

Quote: For in the end, freedom is a personal and lonely battle; and one faces down fears of today so that those of tomorrow might be engaged. Author: Alice Walker 1944-, American Author, Critic

Quote: Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth. Author: George Washington 1732-1799, First President of the USA

Quote: The time is near at hand which must determine whether Americans are to be free men or slaves. Author: George Washington 1732-1799, First President of the USA

Quote: Freedom -- to walk free and own no superior. Author: Walt Whitman 1819-1892, American Poet

Quote: The more internal freedom you achieve, the more you want: it is more fun to be happy than sad, more enjoyable to choose your own emotions than to have them inflicted on you by mechanical glandular processes, more pleasurable to solve your problems than to be stuck with them forever. Author: Robert Wilson 1941-, American Theater Director, Designer

Quote: How does the Meadow flower its bloom unfold? Because the lovely little flower is free down to its root, and in that freedom bold. Author: William Wordsworth 1770-1850, British Poet

Quote: It is especially important to encourage unorthodox thinking when the situation is critical: At such moments every new word and fresh thought is more precious than gold. Indeed, people must not be deprived of the right to think their own thoughts. Author: Boris Yeltsin 1931-, Russian President

Quote: He who is conceived in a cage, yearns for the cage. Author: Yevgeny Yevtushenko 1933-, Russian Poet

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