Freedom Quotes

"What is the essence of America? Finding and maintaining that perfect, delicate balance between freedom "to" and freedom "from.""

Marilyn vos Savant, Author

"I am involved in a freedom ride protesting the loss of the minority rights belonging to the few remaining earthbound stars. All we demanded was our right to twinkle"

Marilyn Monroe, Actress

"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"

John F. Kennedy, President

"Money won't create success, the freedom to make it will"

Nelson Mandela, Statesman

"Communists have always played an active role in the fight by colonial countries for their freedom, because the short-term objects of Communism would always correspond with the long-term objects of freedom movements"

Nelson Mandela, Statesman

"War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength"

George Orwell, Author

"People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use"

Søren Kierkegaard, Philosopher

"What is ominous is the ease with which some people go from saying that they don't like something to saying that the government should forbid it. When you go down that road, don't expect freedom to survive very long"

Thomas Sowell, Economist

"The pillars of truth and the pillars of freedom - they are the pillars of society"

Henrik Ibsen, Poet

"One should never put on one's best trousers to go out to battle for freedom and truth"

Henrik Ibsen, Poet

"No one can enjoy freedom without trembling"

Emile M. Cioran, Philosopher

"Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself - and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine with them. That's what real love amounts to - letting a person be what he really is"

Jim Morrison, Musician

"Women are degraded by the propensity to enjoy the present moment, and, at last, despise the freedom which they have not sufficient virtue to struggle to attain"

Mary Wollstonecraft, Writer

"Freedom is a right ultimately defended by the sacrifice of America's servicemen and women"

Arnold Schwarzenegger, Actor

"And what do Democrats stand for, if they are so ready to defame concerned citizens as the "mob" - a word betraying a Marie Antoinette delusion of superiority to ordinary mortals. I thought my party was populist, attentive to the needs and wishes of those outside the power structure. And as a product of the 1960s, I thought the Democratic party was passionately committed to freedom of thought and speech"

Camille Paglia, Author

"Perfect freedom is as necessary to the health and vigor of commerce as it is to the health and vigor of citizenship"

Patrick Henry, Politician

"The momentum of freedom in our world is unmistakable - and it is not carried forward by our power alone. We can trust in that greater power Who guides the unfolding of the years. And in all that is to come, we can know that His purposes are just and true"

George W. Bush, President

"Freedom is the open window through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit and human dignity"

Herbert Hoover, President

"Native Americans are the original inhabitants of the land that now constitutes the United States. They have helped develop the fundamental principles of freedom of speech and separation of powers that form the foundation of the United States Government"

Joe Baca, Politician

"Freedom is the oxygen of the soul"

Moshe Dayan, Soldier

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

Theodor Adorno, Philosopher

"We do not commonly see in a tax a diminution of freedom, and yet it clearly is one"

Herbert Spencer, Philosopher

"One of the interesting things here is that the people who should be shaping the future are politicians. But the political framework itself is so dead and closed that people look to other sources, like artists, because art and music allow people a certain freedom"

Thom Yorke, Musician

"The greatest threat to freedom is the absence of criticism"

Wole Soyinka, Dramatist

"I've sold my soul for freedom. It's lonely but it's sweet"

Melissa Etheridge, Musician

"The law of the Creator, which invests every human being with an inalienable title to freedom, cannot be repealed by any interior law which asserts that man is property"

Salmon P. Chase, Politician

"Freedom is never given; it is won"

A. Philip Randolph, Activist

"Thus, it was to seek true civilization and true justice for all the peoples of the world, and to view this as the destruction of personal freedom and respect is to be assailed by the hatred and emotion of war, and to make hasty judgments"

Hideki Tojo, Soldier

"Germany's fate is decided first and foremost in Europe. Reconciliation and cooperation in Europe have brought us freedom, peace and prosperity. Who would have dared to believe so much 50 years ago?"

Horst Koehler, Statesman

"Freedom is the oxygen without which science cannot breathe"

David Sarnoff, Inventor

"I regard freedom of expression as the primary right without which one can not have a proper functioning democracy"

Lord Hailsham, Politician

"Whoever will be free must make himself free. Freedom is no fairy gift to fall into a man's lap. What is freedom? To have the will to be responsible for one's self"

Max Stirner, Philosopher

"One of my great joys in life is being a pilot. There is a great sense of freedom in soaring through the sky. You get a different perspective up there. Seeing things that aren't so apparent from the ground"

Sonny Perdue, Politician

"The perfection of our union, especially our commitment to equality of opportunity, has been a story of constant striving to live up to our Founding principles. This is what Abraham Lincoln meant when he said, 'In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free - honorable alike in what we give, and what we preserve.'"

Paul Ryan, Politician

"I spent a great deal of time with Che Guevara while I was in Havana. I believe he was far less a mercenary than he was a freedom fighter"

Maureen O'Hara, Actress

"The freedom of thought and expression is one of the most sacred rights in this country"

Eliot Engel, Politician

"And why do we, who say we oppose tyranny and demand freedom of speech, allow people to go to prison and be vilified, and magazines to be closed down on the spot, for suggesting another version of history"

David Icke, Athlete

"I don't like freedom jazz - I think it's void of roots and void of foundation"

George Shearing, Musician

"All real freedom springs from necessity, for it can be gained only through the exercise of the individual will, and that will can be roused to energetic action only by the force of necessity acting upon it from the outside to spur it to effort"

Anna C. Brackett

"There's a glorious sense of freedom in comedy, just allowing myself to tell jokes, allowing myself to interrupt myself and tell old African folk stories that I made up - or didn't - and Jamaican stories"

Neil Gaiman, Author

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