Freedom Quotes - page 3

How absurd men are! They never use the liberties they have, they demand those they do not have. They have freedom of thought, they demand freedom of speech. (Søren Kierkegaard)
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. View quote
Max Stirner
Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty. View quote
Frank Herbert
True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made. View quote
Franklin D. Roosevelt
All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope. View quote
Winston Churchill
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. View quote
Nelson Mandela
None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free. View quote
Pearl S. Buck
Freedom of expression is the matrix, the indispensable condition, of nearly every other form of freedom. View quote
Benjamin N. Cardozo
Punk is musical freedom. It's saying, doing and playing what you want. In Webster's terms, 'nirvana' means freedom from pain, suffering and the external world, and that's pretty close to my definition of Punk Rock. View quote
Kurt Cobain
Freedom is the sure possession of those alone who have the courage to defend it. View quote
Pericles
As soon as laws are necessary for men, they are no longer fit for freedom. (Pythagoras)
Freedom of choice is more to be treasured than any possession earth can give. View quote
David O. McKay
Here was buried Thomas Jefferson, Author of the Declaration of American Independence, Of the Statute of Virginia for Religious Freedom, And Father of the University of Virginia. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
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. View quote
James Madison
They won't break me because the desire for freedom, and the freedom of the Irish people, is in my heart. The day will dawn when all the people of Ireland will have the desire for freedom to show. It is then that we will see the rising of the moon. View quote
Bobby Sands
You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on having both at once. View quote
Robert A. Heinlein
Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it. View quote
Thomas Paine
If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom, and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too. View quote
W. Somerset Maugham
There are two good things in life - freedom of thought and freedom of action. View quote
W. Somerset Maugham
Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners. View quote
Vladimir Lenin
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)
No protracted war can fail to endanger the freedom of a democratic country. View quote
Alexis de Tocqueville
Americans are so enamored of equality that they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom. View quote
Alexis de Tocqueville
Everyone should be able to build, and as long as this freedom to build does not exist, the present-day planned architecture cannot be considered art at all. View quote
Friedensreich Hundertwasser
The breath of an aristocrat is the death rattle of freedom. View quote
Georg Büchner