Freedom Quotes
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Freedom means choosing your burden. (Quote by - Hephzibah Menuhin)
Freedom is the oxygen of the soul. (Quote by - Moshe Dayan)
Intellect annuls fate. So far as a man thinks, he is free. (Quote by - Emerson)
We feel free when we escape - even if it be but from the frying pan into the fire. (Quote by - Eric Hoffer)
Freedom is that instant between when someone tells you to do something and when you decide how to respond. (Quote by - Jeffrey Borenstein)
Freedom rings where opinions clash. (Quote by - Adlai E. Stevenson)
We on this continent should never forget that men first crossed the Atlantic not to find soil for their ploughs but to secure liberty for their souls. (Quote by - Robert J. McCracken)
I know but one freedom and that is the freedom of the mind. (Quote by - Antoine De Saint-exupery)
He that complies against his will, Is of his own opinion still. (Quote by - Samuel Butler)
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. (Quote by - John Fitzgerald Kennedy)
In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved. (Quote by - Franklin D. Roosevelt)
The unity of freedom has never relied on uniformity of opinion. (Quote by - John Fitzgerald Kennedy)
A man's worst difficulties begin when he is able to do as he likes. (Quote by - Thomas Huxley)
You can muffle the drum, and you can loosen the strings of the lyre, but who shall command the skylark not to sing? (Quote by - Kahlil Gibran)
My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular. (Quote by - Adlai Stevenson)
One need not obey the rules if he abandons a meaningless or cruel game. (Quote by - O Anna Niemus)
When you have robbed a man of everything, he is no longer in your power. He is free again. (Quote by - Alexander Solzhenitsyn)
We, and all others who believe in freedom as deeply as we do, would rather die on our feet than live on our knees. (Quote by - Franklin Delano Roosevelt)
I disagree with what you say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it. (Quote by - Voltaire)
To do good whenever one can, to love liberty above all else, never to deny the truth, even though it be before the throne. (Quote by - Beethoven)
When we lose the right to be different, we lose the privilege to be free. (Quote by - Charles Evans Hughes)
I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom. (Quote by - Simone de Beauvoir)
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. (Quote by - Richard M. Nixon)
Most people want security in this world, not liberty. (Quote by - H.L. Mencken)
What man wants is simply independent choice, whatever that independence may cost and where ever it may lead. (Quote by - Dostoevsky)
You have freedom when you're easy in your harness. (Quote by - Robert Frost)
Love, not force, rides the horse. (Quote by - Saiom Shriver)
No woman can call herself free who does not own and control her body. No woman can call herself free until she can choose consciously whether she will or will not be a mother. (Quote by - Margaret Sanger)
Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err. (Quote by - Mahatma Gandhi)
Once freedom lights its beacon in a man's heart, the gods are powerless against him. (Quote by - Jean-Paul Sartre)
Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose. Nothing ain't worth nothing but it's free. (Quote by - Kris Kristoffersen)
The world's 'freeest' country has the highest number in prison. (Quote by - Arundhati Roy)
The patriot's blood is the seed of Freedom's tree. (Quote by - Thomas Campbell)
A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government. (Quote by - Edward Abbey)
Those who are used to a cage will weep for a cage. (Quote by - Yevgeny Yevtushenko)
We will always remember. We will always be proud. We will always be prepared, so we may always be free. (Quote by - Ronald Reagan)
Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide. (Quote by - Napoleon Bonaparte)
Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves. (Quote by - Abraham Lincoln)
Freedom is not an ideal, it is not even a protection, if it means nothing more than the freedom to stagnate. (Quote by - Adlai E. Stevenson)
A hungry man is not a free man. (Quote by - Adlai E. Stevenson)
Monsanto doesn't care about feeding the world. We have to think about the wage slavery of migrant workers and salary slavery of those who are desperately unhappy. (Quote by - Wendell Berry)
We are not free, it was not intended we should be. A book of rules is placed in our cradle, and we never get rid of it until we reach our graves. Then we are free, and only then. (Quote by - Ed Howe)
Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it. (Quote by - Thomas Paine)
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. (Quote by - Charles Kingsley)
A free society is one where it is safe to be unpopular. (Quote by - Adlai Stevenson)
For what avail the plough or sail, Or land or life, if freedom fail? (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
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. (Quote by - Mark Van Doren)
We have to call it "freedom": who'd want to die for "a lesser tyranny"? (Quote by - Mignon McLaughlin)
It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once. (Quote by - Hume)
We fight not to enslave, but to set a country free, and to make room upon the earth for honest men to live in. (Quote by - Thomas Paine)
Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have. (Quote by - Harry Emerson Fosdick)
