Freedom Quotes · Page 339

As freedom is the only safeguard of governments, so are order and moderation generally necessary to preserve freedom.

— Thomas B. Macaulay

I should have loved freedom, I believe, at all times, but in the time in which we live I am ready to…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

I don't have any children, so I've decided to claim all the future freedom-fighters and hell-raisers as my kin.

— Molly Ivins

“The illusion that freedom is the prerogative of one's own particular race is fairly widespread.”

— Agatha Christie

Accuracy is not only in the home. Philosophers often bring accuracy to their thoughts.

— Ilkin Santak

Freedom is not a gift bestowed upon us by other men, but a right that belongs to us by the laws of…

— Benjamin Franklin

Nothing is more certainly written in the book of fate than that these people are to be free.

— Thomas Jefferson

“But you can live in the most democratic country on earth, and if you're lazy, obtuse or servile within yourself, you're not…

— Ignazio Silone

To me the bicycle is in many ways a more satisfactory invention than the automobile. It is consonant with the independence of…

— Louis J. Halle

“About E. de Rosny, who has described his experience in Africa with the help of your theory, I’ve just heard that his…

— Scott Cowdell

I want people to take thought about their condition and to recognize that the maintenance of a free society is a very…

— Milton Friedman

Let's distinguish between freedom and equality. The modern American woman may be more liberated sexually than her mother was, but I don't…

— Madalyn Murray O'Hair

“And it came to pass that he rent his coat; and he took a piece thereof, and wrote upon it—In memory of…

— The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

Foreign policy that is obviously guided by interests, but that is very much also committed to shared values, so we have a…

— Angela Merkel

I stand on this rostrum with a sense of deep humility and great pride - humility in the weight of those great…

— Douglas MacArthur

You may twist the word freedom as long as you please, but at last it comes to quiet enjoyment of your own…

— William Cobbett

Voluntary association produces the free market - where each person can choose among a multitude of possibilities.

— Harry Browne

The closer Iraq approaches freedom and democracy, the more impediments and barriers the terrorists will erect.

— Howard Coble

I love someone unconditionally, and I am free in every opportunity I seize to express it.

— Melody Minagar

“If you surrender your free will, then someone is bound to take the reins and lead you to a place that is…

— Steven Redhead

What did it mean for a person to be free? Even if you managed to escape from one cage, weren't you just…

— Anonymous

Pleasure is always derived from something outside you, whereas joy arises from within.

— Eckhart Tolle

By leveraging their freedom from the bonds of location, corporations could now dictate the economic policy of governments.

— Joel Bakan

Happy Memorial Day to those who sacrificed their life defending our country and our freedom. May you remembered and honored for eternity.

— Sonya Parker

“Whoever then would be free, let him wish for nothing, let him decline nothing, which depends on others; else he must necessarily…

— Epictetus Epictetus

I have long been convinced that institutions purely democratic must, sooner or later, destroy liberty or civilization, or both.

— Anonymous

Just as the great ocean has one taste, the taste of salt, so also this teaching and discipline has one taste, the…

— Gautama Buddha

I don't have tiffs with people. I only mind my business, but whatever interferes my freedom of expression, I have always voiced.

— Kamal Haasan

Dissent and dissenters have no monopoly on freedom. They must tolerate opposition. They must accept dissent from their dissent.

— Abe Fortas

I am as free as nature first made man, Ere the base laws of servitude began, When wild in woods the noble…

— John Dryden

Everyone has freedom to say whatever they want to say. I think it takes a stronger person to hold their tongue as…

— Evander Holyfield

Manipulation of mass consciousness is based on the percolation of the required ideas under the values widespread in society.

— Ilkin Santak

Free speech exercised both individually and through a free press, is a necessity in any country where people are themselves free.

— Theodore Roosevelt

I would die to preserve the law upon a solid foundation; but take away liberty, and the foundation is destroyed.

— Alexander Hamilton

You do not need to seek freedom in a different land, for it exists with your own body, heart, mind, and soul.

— B.K.S. Iyengar

Person who does not feel every cell of his body and who does not find his soul in every cell of his…

— Ilkin Santak

America gains most when individuals have great freedom to pursue personal goals without undue government interference.

— Sylvia Earle

“Plant your flag, respectfully stand for truth, justice, and freedom for all.”

— L.M. Fields

A liberation movement that is nonviolent sets the oppressor free as well as the oppressed.

— Barbara Deming

The road to freedom lies not through mysteries or occult performances, but through the intelligent use of natural forces and laws.

— Ernest Holmes