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Famous Freedom Quotes

Independence? That's middle class blasphemy. We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.

George Bernard Shaw

Freedom is a man's natural power of doing what he pleases, so far as he is not prevented by force or law.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

You cannot build character and courage by taking away a man's initiative and independence.

Abraham Lincoln

The soul of a journey is liberty, perfect liberty, to think, feel, do just as one pleases.

William Hazlitt

Violent means will give violent freedom. That would be a menace to the world and to India herself.

Mohandas Gandhi

The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.

Thomas Jefferson

For all who love freedom and peace, the world without Saddam Hussein's regime is a better and safer place.

Freedom prospers when religion is vibrant and the rule of law under God is acknowledged.

Inspirational Freedom Quotes

Freedom from effort in the present merely means that there has been effort stored up in the past.

Theodore Roosevelt

A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the will's freedom after it.

Liberty consists in the power of doing that which is permitted by the law.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

The desire of gold is not for gold. It is for the means of freedom and benefit.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The family is the test of freedom; because the family is the only thing that the free man makes for himself and by himself.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.

Thomas Jefferson

Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride.

Friedrich Nietzsche

In every country and every age, the priest had been hostile to Liberty.

Thomas Jefferson

Short Freedom Quotes

I believe that God has planted in every heart the desire to live in freedom.

He only earns his freedom and his life Who takes them every day by storm.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The revelation of thought takes men out of servitude into freedom.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

There are two good things in life - freedom of thought and freedom of action.

W. Somerset Maugham

Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty.

Thomas Jefferson

Liberty is the right of every man to be honest, to think and to speak without hypocrisy.

The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time.

Thomas Jefferson

Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.

Henry David Thoreau

More Freedom Quotes

It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to lose liberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man's self.

I believe in only one thing: liberty; but I do not believe in liberty enough to want to force it upon anyone.

Only people who have been allowed to practise freedom can have the grown-up look in their eyes.

Men are freest when they are most unconscious of freedom. The shout is a rattling of chains, always was.

David Herbert Lawrence

Nationality is the miracle of political independence; race is the principle of physical analogy.

Benjamin Disraeli

Liberty, as well as honor, man ought to preserve at the hazard of his life, for without it life is insupportable.

Miguel de Cervantes

They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

Benjamin Franklin

America is a model of force and freedom and moderation - with all the coarseness and rudeness of its people.

Excess of liberty, whether it lies in state or individuals, seems only to pass into excess of slavery.

Law represents the effort of man to organize society; governments, the efforts of selfishness to overthrow liberty.

Henry Ward Beecher

Only the freedom of mind can prevent the state from becoming totalitarian and from issuing totalitarian demands.

Friedrich Durrenmatt

Freedom in general may be defined as the absence of obstacles to the realization of desires.

Bertrand Russell

Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.

Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired, but by controlling the desire.

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

Harry S. Truman

Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme liberty.

Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err.

Mohandas Gandhi

Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.

The United States of America will never be intimidated by thugs and assassins. The killers will fail, and the Iraqi people will live in freedom.

Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure.

Bertrand Russell

For you who no longer posses it, freedom is everything, for us who do, it is merely an illusion.

Emile M. Cioran

All theory is against freedom of the will; all experience for it.

The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency.

If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.

Freedom itself was attacked this morning by a faceless coward, and freedom will be defended.

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

Educate and inform the whole mass of the people... They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.

Thomas Jefferson

We cannot expect that all nations will adopt like systems, for conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.

John F. Kennedy

You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man's freedom.

Clarence Darrow

The approach of liberty makes even an old man brave.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

We are not to expect to be translated from despotism to liberty in a featherbed.

Thomas Jefferson

I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it.

Thomas Jefferson

Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.

George Washington

Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

I am known for a life spent in the struggle for freedom, and freedom includes the freedom of religion.

Oriana Fallaci

There have been in this century only one great man and one great thing: Napoleon and liberty. For want of the great man, let us have the great thing.

The new electronic independence re-creates the world in the image of a global village.

Marshall McLuhan

Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.

Such security is equal liberty. But it is not necessarily equality in the use of the earth.

Benjamin Tucker

I know of no country in which there is so little independence of mind and real freedom of discussion as in America.

Alexis de Tocqueville

Most people want security in this world, not liberty.

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

Modernism released us from the constraints of everything that had gone before with a euphoric sense of freedom.

Arthur Erickson

Liberty may be endangered by the abuse of liberty, but also by the abuse of power.

Freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed choices.

There can be but little liberty on earth while men worship a tyrant in heaven.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Your determination, selflessness and courage have brought the freedom struggle towards its fulfilment.

Gerry Adams

All mankind... being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or possessions.

John Locke

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