Freedom Quotes: Inspiring Words on Liberty and Independence (Page 5)

"We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom"

"If you want total security, go to prison. There you're fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking... is freedom"

Dwight D. Eisenhower, President

"History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid"

Dwight D. Eisenhower, President

"Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth"

John F. Kennedy, President

"The fifth freedom is freedom from ignorance"

Lyndon B. Johnson, President

"In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from"

Peter Ustinov, Actor

"Our society is illuminated by the spiritual insights of the Hebrew prophets. America and Israel have a common love of human freedom, and they have a common faith in a democratic way of life"

Lyndon B. Johnson, President

"Freedom is not enough"

Lyndon B. Johnson, President

"Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it"

Thomas Paine, Writer

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

Samuel Johnson, Author

"The condition every art requires is, not so much freedom from restriction, as freedom from adulteration and from the intrusion of foreign matter"

Willa Cather, Author

"We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought"

Bertrand Russell, Philosopher

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

Bertrand Russell, Philosopher

"Freedom comes only to those who no longer ask of life that it shall yield them any of those personal goods that are subject to the mutations of time"

Bertrand Russell, Philosopher

"Well, if crime fighters fight crime and fire fighters fight fire, what do freedom fighters fight? They never mention that part to us, do they?"

George Carlin, Comedian

"While the State exists there can be no freedom; when there is freedom there will be no State"

Vladimir Lenin, Leader

"When there is state there can be no freedom, but when there is freedom there will be no state"

Vladimir Lenin, Leader

"No amount of political freedom will satisfy the hungry masses"

Vladimir Lenin, Leader

"Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners"

Vladimir Lenin, Leader

"The only freedom I care about is the freedom to do right; the freedom to do wrong I am ready to part with on the cheapest terms to anyone who will take it of me"

Thomas Huxley, Scientist

"No slavery can be abolished without a double emancipation, and the master will benefit by freedom more than the freed-man"

Thomas Huxley, Scientist

"There is no such thing as part freedom"

Nelson Mandela, Statesman

"There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere, and many of us will have to pass through the valley of the shadow of death again and again before we reach the mountaintop of our desires"

Nelson Mandela, Statesman

"Only free men can negotiate; prisoners cannot enter into contracts. Your freedom and mine cannot be separated"

Nelson Mandela, Statesman

"Freedom and order are not incompatible... truth is strength... free discussion is the very life of truth"

Thomas Huxley, Scientist

"The liberties of our country, the freedom of our civil constitution, are worth defending against all hazards: And it is our duty to defend them against all attacks"

Samuel Adams, Revolutionary

"For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others"

Nelson Mandela, Statesman

"In my youth I stressed freedom, and in my old age I stress order. I have made the great discovery that liberty is a product of order"

Will Durant, Historian

"People demand freedom only when they have no power"

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Poet

"Freedom has cost too much blood and agony to be relinquished at the cheap price of rhetoric"

Thomas Sowell, Economist

"Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom"

Søren Kierkegaard, Philosopher

"I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and democracy - but that could change"

Dan Quayle, Vice President

"You should never have your best trousers on when you go out to fight for freedom and truth"

Henrik Ibsen, Poet

"The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom - these are the pillars of society"

Henrik Ibsen, Poet

"A man should never put on his best trousers when he goes out to battle for freedom and truth"

Henrik Ibsen, Poet

"The worst enemy of truth and freedom in our society is the compact majority"

Henrik Ibsen, Poet

"Never wear your best trousers when you go out to fight for freedom and truth"

Henrik Ibsen, Poet

"Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear"

George Orwell, Author

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

George Orwell, Author

"If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter"

George Washington, President

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