Freedom Quotes

"Freedom in art, freedom in society, this is the double goal towards which all consistent and logical minds must strive"

Victor Hugo, Author

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

Mahatma Gandhi, Leader

"Freedom is never dear at any price. It is the breath of life. What would a man not pay for living?"

Mahatma Gandhi, Leader

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

Aldous Huxley, Novelist

"A free America... means just this: individual freedom for all, rich or poor, or else this system of government we call democracy is only an expedient to enslave man to the machine and make him like it"

Frank Lloyd Wright, Architect

"You have freedom when you're easy in your harness"

Robert Frost, Poet

"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

"Americans admire a people who can scratch a desert and produce a garden. The Israelis have shown qualities that Americans identify with: guts, patriotism, idealism, a passion for freedom. I have seen it. I know. I believe that"

Richard M. Nixon, President

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

Marilyn vos Savant, Author

"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

"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

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

George Orwell, Author

"No one can enjoy freedom without trembling"

Emile M. Cioran, Philosopher

"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

"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

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

Arnold Schwarzenegger, Actor

"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

"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

"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 oxygen of the soul"

Moshe Dayan, Soldier

"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

"As long as men are free to ask what they must, free to say what they think, free to think what they will, freedom can never be lost and science can never regress"

Marcel Proust, Author

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

Herbert Spencer, Philosopher

"Hero-worship is strongest where there is least regard for human freedom"

Herbert Spencer, Philosopher

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

Theodor Adorno, Philosopher

"Bastard Freedom waves Her fustian flag in mockery over slaves"

Thomas Moore, Poet

"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

"The secret of freedom lies in educating people, whereas the secret of tyranny is in keeping them ignorant"

Maximilien Robespierre, Leader

"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

"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

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