The basis of a democratic state is liberty.
Aristotle
What then is freedom ? The power to live as one wishes.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
Thomas Jefferson
I am for freedom of religion, & against all maneuvres to bring about a legal ascendancy of one sect over another.
Thomas Jefferson
I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.
Thomas Jefferson
People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.
Soren Kierkegaard
Freedom lies in being bold.
Robert Frost
God is not merely interestd in the freedom of brown men, yellow men, red men and black men.He is interested in the freedom of the whole human race.
Martin Luther King Jr.
We naturally associate democracy, to be sure, with freedom of action, but freedom of action without freed capacity of thought behind it is only chaos.
John Dewey
We, and all others who believe in freedom as deeply as we do, would rather die on our feet than live on our knees.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
I loved the feeling of freedom in running, the fresh air, the feeling that the only person I'm competing with is me.
Wilma Rudolph
In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
He hath freedom whoso beareth clean and constant heart within.
Quintus Ennius
Freedom and order are not incompatible... truth is strength... free discussion is the very life of truth.
Thomas Henry Huxley
To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Patterning your life around other's opinions is nothing more than slavery.
Lawana Blackwell
Since the general civilization of mankind, I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpation.
James Madison
Tyranny is always better organized than freedom.
Charles Peguy
The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.
Baruch Spinoza
Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
Hannah Arendt
The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves.
William Hazlitt
Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.
Sigmund Freud
Freedom in general may be defined as the absence of obstacles to the realization of desires.
Bertrand Russell
Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.
Albert Einstein
I hope for nothing. I fear nothing. I am free.
Nikos Kazantzakis
Freedom is when one hears the bell at seven o'clock in the morning and knows it is the milkman and not the Gestapo.
Georges Bidault
Freedom granted only when it is known beforehand that its effects will be beneficial is not freedom.
Friedrich August Hayek
For good and evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a world in continuous creation and therefore continuous change and insecurity.
Joyce Cary
The known propensity of a democracy is to licentiousness which the ambitious call, and the ignorant believe to be liberty.
Fisher Ames
Men will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest.
Denis Diderot
Do you see how you hurt me, baby? So I hurt you too. Then we both get so blue. I am on a lonely road and I am traveling, looking for the key to set me free.
Joni Mitchell
Freedom is an internal achievement rather than an external adjustment.
Adam Clayton Powell
The problem of freedom in America is that of maintaining a competition of ideas, and you do not achieve that by silencing one brand of idea.
Max Lerner
Freedom is man's capacity to take a hand in his own development. It is our capacity to mold ourselves.
Dr. Rollo May
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
Freedom is that instant between when someone tells you to do something and when you decide how to respond.
Dr. Jeffrey Borenstein
Freedom is coming to mean little more than the right to ask permission.
Joseph Sobran
The freedom now desired by many is not freedom to do and dare but freedom from care and worry.
James Truslow Adams
Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I will meet you there.
Jalal Ad din Rumi
Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.
Lord Acton
Political freedom is a political reading of the Bible.
Whittaker Chambers
Criticism of government finds sanctuary in several portions of the 1st Amendment. It is part of the right of free speech. It embraces freedom of the press.
Hugo Black
Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting.
Alan Dean Foster
Because you are in control of your life. Don't ever forget that. You are what you are because of the conscious and subconscious choices you have made.
Barbara Hall
He who believes in freedom of the will has never loved and never hated.
Marie Von Ebner eschenbach
Some of the press who speak loudly about the freedom of the press are themselves the enemies of freedom. Countless people dare not say a thing because they know it will be picked up and made a song of by the press. That limits freedom.
Geoffrey Fisher
There are those who will say that the liberation of humanity, the freedom of man and mind is nothing but a dream. They are right. It is the American Dream.
Archibald Macleish
The genius of the American system is that through freedom we have created extraordinary results from plain old ordinary people.
Phil Gramm
We must plan for freedom, and not only for security, if for no other reason than that only freedom can make security secure.
Karl Popper
Once freedom is equated with a certain material standard of living, confiscation becomes the path to liberation.
James Bovard
From the suites of Davos to the streets of Seattle, there is a growing consensus that globalization must now be reshaped to reflect values broader than simply the freedom of capital.
John J. Sweeney
If you want to be free, there is but one way; it is to guarantee an equally full measure of liberty to all your neighbors. There is no other.
Carl Schurz
Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
Patricia Sampson
There must be no barriers for freedom of inquiry. There is no place for dogma in science. The scientist is free, and must be free to ask any question, to doubt any asssertion, to seek for any evidence, to correct any errors.
J. Robert Oppenheimer
Freedom of speech and freedom of action are meaningless without freedom to think. And there is no freedom of thought without doubt.
Bergen Evans
As human beings, we are endowed with freedom of choice, and we cannot shuffle off our responsibility upon the shoulders of God or nature. We must shoulder it ourselves. It is our responsibility.
Arnold Toynbee
I looked at my hands, to see if I was the same person now that I was free. There was such a glory over everything; the sun came like gold through the trees, and over de fields, and I felt like I was in heaven.
Harriet Tubman
Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth; when perfect sincerity is expected, perfect freedom must be allowed; nor has anyone who is apt to be angry when he hears the truth any cause to wonder that he does not hear it.
Publius Cornelius Tacitus
What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.
Salman Rushdie
There are two freedoms; The false, where man is free to do what he likes; The true, where man is free to do what he ought.
Charles Kingsley
The hope of free man in a frightened world is the values which man puts ahead of inventions when his back is to the wall. These values are beauty, truth, goodness and having a faith, all of which are bombproof.
Ralph W. Sockman
Freedom involves a knowledge of choices. This alone is reason enough to get an education.
Bill Lemley
The worst enemy of truth and freedom in our society is the compact majority.
Henrik Ibsen
The elective system offered a bewildering freedom of choice, leaving some graduates with the impression that they had nibbled at dozens of canapes of knowledge and never had their fill.
Ted Morgan
There is no such thing as a little freedom. Either you are all free, or you are not free.
Walter Cronkite
Freedom of inquiry, freedom of discussion, and freedom of teaching - without these a university cannot exist.
Robert Maynard Hutchins
While we are free to choose our actions, we are not free to choose the consequences of our actions.
Stephen R. Covey
If you make a living, if you earn your own money, you're free - however free one can be on this planet.
Theodore H. White
Anyone I'm with has to give me freedom. I like to be with someone who has character and style and someone who is very understanding.
Leonardo Dicaprio
A forest bird never wants a cage.
Henrik Ibsen
Freedom is always and exclusively freedom for the one who thinks differently.
Rosa Luxemburg
We must show that liberty is not merely one particular value but that it is the source and condition of most moral values. What a free society offers to the individual is much more than what he would be able to do if only he were free. We can therefore not fully appreciate the value of freedom until we know how a society of free men as a whole differs from one in which unfreedom prevails.
Friedrich August Hayek
I have only to speak for myself; to speak for freedom for myself; to determine for freedom for myself; and in doing so, I speak and determine for the freedom of every slave on every plantation, and for the fugitives on my right hand.
Charles Lenox Remond
When I was a kid, we said that we were precluded from going to certain neighborhoods because of the color of our skin… Now the neighborhoods are the neighborhoods of ideas, you're not supposed to be there because … of the color of your skin.'
Clarence Thomas
Those who would deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves; and, under a just God, cannot long retain it.
Abraham Lincoln
You don't get something for nothingYou can't have freedom for freeYou won't get wiseWith the sleep still in your eyesNo matter what your dreams might be.
Neil Peart
It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.
Mark Twain
Freedom is the open window through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit and human dignity.
Herbert Clark Hoover
I want to have fun. I want to shine like the sun. I want to be the one that you want to see. I want to knit you a sweater. I want to write you a love letter. I want to make you feel better. I want to make you feel free.
Joni Mitchell
As long as I don't write about the government, religion, politics, and other institutions, I am free to print anything.
P.a. Caron De Beaumarchais
No dictator, no invader, can hold an imprisoned population by force of arms forever. There is no greater power in the universe than the need for freedom. Against that power, governments and tyrants and armies cannot stand.
J. Michael Straczynski
Every dictator is an enemy of freedom, an opponent of law.
Demosthenes
My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.
Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.
Freedom has no history.
Andrew Cohen
The freedom to move forward to new opportunities and to produce results comes from living in the present not the past.
Brian Koslow
Free speech carries with it some freedom to listen.
Bob Marley
In relations between the rich and the strong, between the rich and the poor, between the master and the servant, it's liberty that grinds down, and the law which liberates.
Jean Baptiste Lacordaire
Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
Jean Paul Sartre
While the right to talk may be the beginning of freedom, the necessity of listening is what makes the right important.
Walter Lippmann
The cause of freedom is not the cause of a race or a sect, a party or a class-it is the cause of human kind, the very birthright of humanity.
Anna Julia Cooper
War is Peace Freedom is Slavery Ignorance is Strength.
George Orwell
When man turns tyrant it is his own freedom he destroys.
George Orwell
Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
George Orwell
To know how to free oneself is nothing; the arduous thing is to know what to do with one's freedom.
Andre Gide
Freedom from worries and surcease from strain are illusions that always inhabit the distance.
Edwin Way Teale
The bigger the information media, the less courage and freedom they allow. Bigness means weakness.
Eric Sevareid
And so, my fellow americans: ask not what your country can do for you - ask what you can do for your country. My fellow citizens of the world: ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man.
John F. Kennedy
Conformity is the jailer of freedom, and the enemy of growth.
John F. Kennedy
We stand for freedom. That is our conviction for ourselves; that is our only commitment to others.
John F. Kennedy
Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.
Soren Kierkegaard
Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.
Martin Luther King Jr.
The secret of Happiness is Freedom, and the secret of Freedom, Courage.
Thucydides
I want freedom for the full expression of my personality.
Mahatma Gandhi
Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.
Mahatma Gandhi
Freedom has a way of destroying things.
Scott Westerfeld
The end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom. For in all the states of created beings capable of law, where there is no law, there is no freedom.
John Locke
Freedom is hammered out on the anvil of discussion, dissent, and debate.
Hubert H. Humphrey
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
Only free men can negotiate; prisoners cannot enter into contracts. Your freedom and mine cannot be separated.
Nelson Mandela
Coersion, after all, merely captures man. Freedom captivates him.
Ronald Reagan
In health there is freedom. Health is the first of all liberties.
Henri Frederic Amiel
Money buts many things...The best of which is freedom.
Mary Renault
Freedom is one of the deepest and noblest aspirations of the human spirit.
Ronald Reagan
Freedom is nothing else but a chance to be better.
Albert Camus
Children should be educated and instructed in the principles of freedom.
John Adams
Freedom is a system based on courage.
Charles Peguy
Freedom is from within.
Frank Lloyd Wright
A society that puts equality... ahead of freedom will end up with neither. .
Milton Friedman
I believe that freedom is the deepest need of every human soul.
George W. Bush
In a completely sane world, madness is the only freedom!
J. G. Ballard
We think the benefits far outweigh the downside, in terms of promoting freedom of expression.
Jack Krumholtz
Too much freedom undercuts freedom.
William Raspberry
The more decisions that you are forced to make alone, the more you are aware of your freedom to choose.
Thornton Wilder
Individuality is freedom lived.
John Dos Passos
The man form is higher than the angel form; of all forms it is the highest. Man is the highest being in creation, because he aspires to freedom.
Paramahansa Yogananda
I really did want to give women this sense of freedom.
Phoebe Philo
What we have is two important values in conflict: freedom of speech and our desire for healthy campaigns in a healthy democracy. You can't have both.
Dick Gephardt
The moment we choose to love we begin to move towards freedom...
Bell Hooks
Old age, calm, expanded, broad with the haughty breadth of the universe, old age flowing free with the delicious near-by freedom of death.
Edith Wharton
Giving up even an ounce of precious freedom is a very serious thing to do.
Charles E. Schumer
He joined the military to defend our freedom. The biggest disappointment to him was not being deployed to Afghanistan to be with his unit.
Ladonna Somers
The price of freedom is high. We cannot afford to forget those willing to pay it.
John Croft
Freedom of expression is the matrix, the indispensable condition, of nearly every other form of freedom.
Benjamin Cardozo
And then, not expecting it, you become middle-aged and anonymous. No one notices you. You achieve a wonderful freedom.
Doris Lessing
He allows his actors freedom to explore.
Maria Bello
When I was taught truth, that's when I got my freedom.
Kirk Franklin
What this is all about is freedom and flexibility for the local school community.
Suellen Reed
What is the essence of America? Finding and maintaining that perfect, delicate balance between freedom "to" and freedom "from."
Marilyn vos Savant
I think it's a symbol of the freedom of skiing at Brundage.
Dennis Coyle
Seek freedom and become captive of your desires, seek discipline and find your liberty.
Frank Herbert
The freedom to make a fortune on the stock exchange has been made to sound more alluring than freedom of speech.
John Mortimer
We grew up in a situation where we didn't know what freedom or justice were, and therefore we didn't know what democracy was.
Daniel Ortega
If we love freedom, we must protect democratic Taiwan.
Dick Armey
My freedom of speech rights are very clear.
Larry Forgy
Oh, and I don't want to die for youbut if dyin's asked of meI'll bear that cross with honor'cause freedom don't come free.
Toby Keith
The greatest American exports to China are those yet to come, ... These are freedom of choice, freedom of opportunity.
Bill Archer
. . . it's a poor kind of man that won't fight for his own freedom.
Alice Childress
There's a hell of a lot of freedom in this rock and roll circus... it's where all the freaks go - it's the environment for me.
Brian Molko
We are all different. Yet we are all God's children. We are all united behind this country and the common cause of freedom, justice, fairness, and equality. That is what unites us.
Barbara Boxer
Stampeding everyone into all-mail ballots is a wrong decision and removes freedom of choice.
Gary Nelson
Coercion, after all, merely captures man. Freedom captivates him.
Robert S. McNamara
We will go to the sun of freedom or to the death; if we die, our cause will continue living.
Augusto Sandino
Freedom of the press is not an end in itself but a means to the end of [achieving] a free society.
Felix Frankfurter
Work, which makes a man free, and thought, which makes him worthy of freedom.
Victor Hugo
This is a real cool thing. The motorcycle is the symbol of freedom.
Tukufu Zuberi
This building is not just important to Catholics. It's a symbol of religious freedom for everyone.
Mark Potter
Women have always had to earn their freedom.
Teresa Arnold
(Cycling) is your first freedom. It is your first independence. I still feel that way when I get on my bike today.
Phil Strong
I've always been a petition-signer. I always believe in freedom of expression and absolute democracy.
Henry Flores
We are Americans fighting for the safety of our country, and we're going to continue to fight for its freedom.
Dottie Dalton
Nothing is more precious than freedom.
Vo Nguyen Giap
One certain effect of war is to diminish freedom of expression.
Howard Zinn
If we have freedom, we have life. Therefore to live, we must love our fellow man, or all will live with the chains of strife.
Donald D. Campbell
Until economic freedom is attained for everybody, there can be no real freedom for anybody.
Suzanne Lafollette
A freedom of expression that destroys world peace is against basic human rights.
Liaqat Baluch
This is essentially a lockdown on freedom of expression.
Amy Domini
I've returned to being an amateur without any ties or strings attached, which gives me a freedom I never had before.
Yusuf Islam
We buy our way out of jail but we can't buy freedom, We buy a lot of clothes when we don't really need them, Things we buy to cover up what's inside.
Kanye West
I believe America's best days are ahead of us because I believe that the future belongs to freedom, not to fear.
John Kerry
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
I welcome their demonstration. I support the First Amendment to the constitution. Everyone in this country has the right to assembly and freedom of speech.
Alejandro Aviles
A man is either free or he is not. There cannot be any apprenticeship for freedom.
Imamu Amiri Baraka
By and large they are dressing appropriately, ... You want them to have the freedom to express their individuality -- to a point.
Cindy Johnson
If liberty has any meaning it means freedom to improve.
Philip Wylie
I was about mobility and intellectual freedom. Traveling to Canada was where my activist spirit came about.
Horace Campbell
Real freedom lies in wildness, not in civilization.
Charles Lindbergh
The essence of mathematics lies in its freedom.
Georg Cantor
I think your allegiance should be to one country. I mean, she is exercising her freedom I guess, she is not breaking the rules.
Cathy Freeman
Men want the same thing from women that they want from their underwear... a little support, comfort, and freedom.
Jerry Seinfeld
Ultimately we know deeply that the other side of fear is a freedom.
Marilyn Ferguson
Never wear your best trousers when you go out to fight for freedom and truth.
Henrik Ibsen
Freedom is not something that one people can bestow on another as a gift. Thy claim it as their own and none can keep it from them.
Kwame Nkrumah
I come bearing an olive branch in one hand, and the freedom fighter's gun in the other. Do not let the olive branch fall from my hand.
Yasser Arafat
Our goals for 2006 are major a new fire station and the expansion of Freedom Library.
Pat Gabriel
There can be no real individual freedom in the presence of economic insecurity.
Chester Bowles
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