Freedom Quotes · Page 266

I am not among those who fear the people. They, and not the rich, are our dependence for continued freedom.

— Thomas Jefferson

“I gain my freedom on the day the moon loses her daughter, if that occurs in a week when two Mondays come…

— Neil Gaiman

The true task is to unite and organize all workers...and it is the workers themselves who must secure freedom for themselves.

— Helen Keller

“Freedom, inefficiency, and prosperity are not in it frequently found together, and it is seldom easy to distinguish between the first two.”

— Anonymous

The gift of independence once granted cannot be lightly taken away again.

— Robert Graves

We must help the reformers of the Middle East as they work for freedom, and strive to build a community of peaceful,…

— George W. Bush

Happy 4th of July, everyone! Thank a soldier for the freedom you are celebrating today.

— Anonymous

To me, the American Dream is being able to follow your own personal calling. To be able to do what you want…

— Maya Lin

Journalists who are devoted to strictly factual reporting take particular pleasure from satirical news outlets that have the liberty to laugh and…

— Tom Rachman

“But go now with good hearts! Farewell, and may the blessing of Elves and Men and all Free Folk go with you.…

— J.R.R. Tolkien

Liberty is of small value to the lower third of humanity. They greatly prefer security, which means protection by some class above…

— H. L. Mencken

I am not myself free or human until or unless I recognize the freedom and humanity of all my fellowmen... I am…

— Mikhail Bakunin

“Listen, child," Maame said. "Every story you believe, that you incorporate within the self, decides who you are. And the greatest weapon…

— Suyi Davies Okungbowa

Untethered technology gives us the freedom to do nearly anything, anytime, anywhere. It can also enslave us - we feel compelled to…

— Linda Stone

The price of liberty is, always has been, and always will be blood. The person who is not willing to die for…

— Anonymous

Cats are the runes of beauty, invincibility, wonder, pride, freedom, coldness, self-sufficiency, and dainty individuality - the qualities of sensitive, enlightened, mentally…

— H. P. Lovecraft

Put your hands where I can see 'em, so they look like 12 PM On the dot, see this Glock? Don't make…

— Elzhi

“The secret is in realizing your internal gifts and then setting them free.”

— Bryant McGill

You're free. You've taken this burden of being a human being on yourself. You're free.

— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

“It's so important to find a daily practice that takes you away from "day to day" to remind you that it's all…

— Ian Tucker

That man is truly free who desires what he is able to perform, and does what he desires.

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“All ideas in a truly free society should always be open for discussion.”

— Bryant McGill

I grew up like a neglected weed - ignorant of liberty, having no experience of it.

— Harriet Tubman

Human will does not by liberty obtain grace, but by grace obtains liberty.

— John Calvin

Independence is never given to a people, it has to be earned; and, once earned, must be defended.

— Chaim Weizmann

Curiosity is a delicate little plant that, aside from stimulation, stands mainly in need of freedom.

— Albert Einstein

“You should enjoy the freedom. Sometimes a bit of time helps you see what matters.”

— Abby Clements

You can never be free until you develop the mental strength to stop fretting over things you cannot control.

— Robert Ringer

Science fictions are suppressed only when likely to contribute more knowledge and freedom than the defensive orthodoxies they challenge.

— Timothy Leary

When you think like a child your imagination is free and anything is possible.

— Criss Angel

To be able to think freely, a man must be certain that no consequence will follow whatever he writes.

— Ernest Renan

“Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations get corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters.”

— Benjamin Franklin

I think there was a reason God helped me escape... and I don't take my freedom for granted.

— Nadia Murad

“Just as medieval culture did not manage to square chivalry with Christianity, so the modern world fails to square liberty with equality.”

— Yuval Noah Harari

Labor Day symbolizes our determination to achieve an economic freedom for the average man which will give his political freedom realty.

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

“Rigidity of order is the artefact and sediment of the human agents ' freedom.”

— Zygmunt Bauman

My dad always associated information with liberation. He was very much in that Malcolm X tradition.

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

There is no difference between machine autonomy and the abdication of human responsibility.

— Jaron Lanier

...with the power of compassion there is nothing that cannot be accomplished.

— Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche

Our march to freedom is irreversible. We must not allow fear to stand in our way.

— Nelson Mandela