Freedom Quotes

"As long as a government can come and shoot you, you can't jump on the Internet to freedom"

"The E.U. is more than just a trade organization or a common market; it is a guarantee of democracy, freedom, justice, and human rights. Nations cannot stay in the E.U. if they do not respect these guarantees"

John Bruton, Politician

"The freedom of each individual can only be the freedom of all"

Friedrich Durrenmatt, Author

"Before anything else, we need a new age of Enlightenment. Our present political systems must relinquish their claims on truth, justice and freedom and have to replace them with the search for truth, justice, freedom and reason"

Friedrich Durrenmatt, Author

"So long as you do not achieve social liberty, whatever freedom is provided by the law is of no avail to you"

B. R. Ambedkar, Politician

"No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare"

James Madison, President

"I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments by those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations"

James Madison, President

"The embattled gates to equal rights indeed opened up for modern women, but I sometimes think to myself; that is not what I meant by freedom, it is only social progress"

Helene Deutsch, Psychologist

"The only way that has ever been discovered to have a lot of people cooperate together voluntarily is through the free market. And that's why it's so essential to preserving individual freedom"

Milton Friedman, Economist

"When you're not concerned with succeeding, you can work with complete freedom"

Larry David, Actor

"The framers of our Constitution meant we were to have freedom of religion, not freedom from religion"

Billy Graham, Clergyman

"None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but licence"

John Milton, Poet

"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, Historian

"Americans are so enamored of equality that they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom"

Alexis de Tocqueville, Historian

"Art requires neither complaisance nor politeness; nothing but faith, faith and freedom"

Gustave Flaubert, Novelist

"No protracted war can fail to endanger the freedom of a democratic country"

Alexis de Tocqueville, Historian

"History suggests that capitalism is a necessary condition for political freedom. Clearly it is not a sufficient condition"

Milton Friedman, Economist

"Every friend of freedom must be as revolted as I am by the prospect of turning the United States into an armed camp, by the vision of jails filled with casual drug users and of an army of enforcers empowered to invade the liberty of citizens on slight evidence"

Milton Friedman, Economist

"A major source of objection to a free economy is precisely that group thinks they ought to want. Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself"

Milton Friedman, Economist

"Freedom is an elusive concept. Some men hold themselves prisoner even when they have the power to do as they please and go where they choose, while others are free in their hearts, even as shackles restrain them"

Brian Herbert, Author

"Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty"

Frank Herbert, Writer

"The United States did not keep its promise to help us fight for freedom and it was in the same fight that the United States lost 50,000 of its young men"

Nguyen Van Thieu, Statesman

"Well, the first thing is that truth and power for me form an antithesis, an antagonism, which will hardly ever be resolved. I can define in fact, can simplify the history of human society, the evolution of human society, as a contest between power and freedom"

Wole Soyinka, Dramatist

"There is a strong correlation between belief in evolution and liberal views on government control, pornography, prayer in schools, abortion, gun control, economic freedom, and even animal rights"

Phyllis Schlafly, Activist

"Wealth is a tool of freedom, but the pursuit of wealth is the way to slavery"

Frank Herbert, Writer

"I defend both the freedom of expression and society's right to counter it. I must pay the price for differing. It is the natural way of things"

Naguib Mahfouz, Novelist

"The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom"

Lady Bird Johnson, First Lady

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

Clarence Darrow, Lawyer

"Freedom of the press is not an end in itself but a means to the end of achieving a free society"

Felix Frankfurter, Judge

"For in the end, freedom is a personal and lonely battle; and one faces down fears of today so that those of tomorrow might be engaged"

Alice Walker, Author

"Freedom means the opportunity to be what we never thought we would be"

Daniel J. Boorstin, Historian

"A nation which makes the final sacrifice for life and freedom does not get beaten"

Kemal Ataturk, Soldier

"But there is some way in which poets believe that and this is dangerous, too believe that their calling gives them a certain freedom. A certain freedom to live in a free way"

Peter Davison, Actor

"We believe that salvation is to be found in wholesome work in a beloved land. Work will provide our people with the bread of tomorrow, and moreover, with the honor of the tomorrow, the freedom of the tomorrow"

Theodor Herzl, Journalist

"The wretch who lives without freedom feels like dressing in the mud from the streets Those who have you, o Liberty, do not know. you. Those who do not have you should not speak of you, but win you"

Jose Marti, Activist

"But once you allow yourself to recognize necessity, you find two things: One you find your options so restricted that the only course of action is obvious, and, two, that a great sense of freedom comes with the decision"

Steven Brust, Author

"We believe it wrong ever to take a dollar from a free citizen without a very necessary public purpose, because each such taking diminishes the freedom to spend that dollar as its owner would prefer"

Mitch Daniels, Politician

"Since the Revolution, eight generations of America's veterans have established an unbroken commitment to freedom"

Steve Buyer, Politician

"Every American deserves to live in freedom, to have his or her privacy respected and a chance to go as far as their ability and effort will take them - regardless of race, gender, ethnicity or economic circumstances"

Christopher Dodd, Politician

"The breath of an aristocrat is the death rattle of freedom"

Georg Buchner, Dramatist

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