When individuals and nations have once got in their heads the abstract concept of full-blown liberty, there is nothing like it in… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
Everything can be taken from a man or a woman but one thing: the last of human freedoms to choose one's attitude… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich. [Inaugural Address, January 20 1961] ” — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Novelists have always had complete freedom to pretty much tell their story any way they saw fit. And that's what I'm trying… — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
...I swore I would battle not only for myself but for freedom and opportunity for everything living that wore chains, especially sex… — Rheta Childe Dorr Copy Share Image
“Over the years I suffered poverty and rejection and came to believe that my mother had formed me for a freedom that… — Louise Brooks Copy Share Image
A small group had concentrated into their own hands an almost complete control over other people's property, other people's money, other people's… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Free men freely work: Whoever fears God, fears to sit at ease. — Elizabeth Barrett Browning Copy Share Image
“The idea of freedom is complex and it is all-encompassing. It’s the idea that the economy must remain free of government persuasion.… — Elbert Guillory Copy Share Image
The Libertarians, of whom I'm rather fond, are running Harry Browne. Libertarians are, just as they claim, principled and consistent- they believe… — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
The dubious privilege of a freelance writer is he’s given the freedom to starve anywhere. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The will of man without the grace of God is not free at all, but is the permanent prisoner and bondslave of… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
For the anarchist, freedom is not an abstract philosophical concept, but the vital concrete possibility of every human being to bring to… — Rudolf Rocker Copy Share Image
All deductions having been made, democracy has done less harm, and more good, than any other form of government. It gave to… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
The abortion license has not brought freedom and security to women. Rather, it has ushered in a new era of irresponsibility toward… — Robert Casey Copy Share Image
“Freedom can only be understood in the context of destiny, or those things which limit our freedom.” — Louis Hoffman Copy Share Image
A chipped pebble is almost part of the hand it never leaves. A thrown spear declares a sort of independence the moment… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
“Enlightenment depends to a large extent on believing that you are born for Freedom in this lifetime, and that it is available… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
Although I cannot move and I have to speak through a computer, in my mind I am free. — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
“Sometimes I think I live in a gap between two worlds, one world that I have to wake up to, be adherent… — Riitta Klint Copy Share Image
“A human being can choose what to do, what to become. We are all free. No one but you can decide what… — Nigel Warburton Copy Share Image
The Occupy Wall Street project feels like a burning ember that might light the torch of justice and inflame our longing for… — James A. Forbes Copy Share Image
Caged birds accept each other, but flight is what they long for. — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
“Before you even think of becoming immersed in the collective, make sure you become immersed in the liberation of your own individualism.… — James Knight Copy Share Image
“But liberty had been a useless gift to me had I not, as I awakened to reason, at the same time awakened… — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Copy Share Image
That which man dreams of and to Which he aspires, unless fulfilled in his own lifetime, can produce no actual satisfaction to… — Haile Selassie Copy Share Image
It's not enough to celebrate the ideals that we're built on, liberty and justice and equality for all. Those just can't be… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
“He looked taken aback, but I didn’t care if I’d offended him. I was about to be sold. And if it amused… — Lesley Livingston Copy Share Image
It is not unfrequent to hear men declaim loudly upon liberty, who, if we may judge by the whole tenor of their… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward — Patricia Sampson Copy Share Image
The famous are balloons far up in the sky, to be envied for their quiet freedom or shot down as enemies. — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
Those who are in the power of evil habits must conquer them as they can; and conquered they must be, or neither… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“We, in this country, in this generation, are - by destiny rather than by choice - the watchmen on the walls of… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
“I've never been free in my whole life. Inside I've always chased myself. I've become intolerable to myself. I live in a… — Clarice Lispector Copy Share Image
At the heart of the WTO is an assault on everything left standing in the commons, in the public realm. Everything is… — Maude Barlow Copy Share Image
(...) We are standing in the flames reaching for the fight until the end; yesterday is dead and gone. Our voice will… — Angela Gossow Copy Share Image