Freedom Quotes · Page 325

“Freedom is the source from which all significations and all values spring. It is the original condition of all justification of existence.”

— Simone de Beauvoir

Tragic paradox of freedom: the mediocre men who alone make its exercise possible cannot guarantee its duration.

— Emile M. Cioran

Democracy sometimes appears paralyzed by those who take advantage of its freedoms in order to abuse them for undemocratic ends.

— David Pryce-Jones

You cannot preach self-government and liberty to people in a starving land.

— Fiorello H. La Guardia

I want to be American. America is the coolest place on the face of the Earth. You've got freedom of speech. You've…

— Ozzy Osbourne

It is the Soviet Union that runs against the tide of human history by denying human freedom and human dignity to its…

— Ronald Reagan

When Freedom from her mountain height Unfurled her standard to the air, She tore the azure robe of night, And set the…

— Joseph Rodman Drake

Now, one of the most essential branches of English liberty is the freedom of one's house.

— James Otis

While America will always, I think, feel foreign to me, New York City is my home. This is where I can construct…

— Raquel Cepeda

We made 'The Wind That Shakes the Barley' about the war of independence and the civil war, which were the pivotal moments…

— Ken Loach

Freedom of expression is the well-spring of our civilization... The history of civilization is in considerable measure the displacement of error which…

— Felix Frankfurter

If happiness truly consisted in physical ease and freedom from care the happiest, individual would not be either a man or a…

— William Lyon Phelps

“Like some homeopathic cure, our very sense of imprisonment can be a step toward liberation. We need not rebel against our temporally…

— Robert Grudin

I cherish my own freedom dearly, but I care even more for your freedom. Too many have died since I went to…

— Nelson Mandela

Drive over to the nearest airport, and enroll in flight classes. You will experience the joy of freedom in the air above,…

— Buzz Aldrin

So on this Human Rights Day, let us rededicate ourselves to the advancement of human rights and freedoms for all, and pledge…

— Barack Obama

Whenever we take away the liberties of those whom we hate we are opening the way to loss of liberty for those…

— Anonymous

Hazrat Mahal, Begum of Oudh, during the national liberation uprising of 1857-59 in India headed the rebels.

— Karl Marx

“It's frightening to be free, to have to take responsibility for your decisions.”

— Azar Nafisi

You have to have wisdom and knowledge as well as virtue to preserve your rights and liberties.

— David McCullough

“The writer, a free man adressing free men, has only one subject - freedom”

— Jean-Paul Sartre

People come to me to write songs that will be successful for them, and they allow me the freedom to do so.

— Linda Perry

Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it.

— Malcolm X

Responsibility and respect of others and their religious beliefs are also part of freedom.

— Anonymous

The people's liberties strengthen the king's prerogative, and the king's prerogative is to defend the people's liberties.

— Charles I of England

The saints' deep secret is this: do not seek freedom, and freedom will be given you.

— Tito Colliander

This is what I am learning, at 82 years old: the main thing is to be in love with the search for truth.

— Maya Angelou

The external freedom won't be given to us but in the exact measure as we've known at a given moment, to developing…

— Mahatma Gandhi

“Humans are needy by design. Will we abandon the myth of independence and seek God?”

— Edward T. Welch

Most of us cherish freedom, but when we actually get the opportunity to make our own way it can be terrifying.

— Tom Butler-Bowdon

They tell me that it will be hard to find a man strong enough to love my own strength and independence, and…

— Diana Ross

There's a freedom you begin to feel the closer you get to Austin, Texas.

— Willie Nelson

Salvation lies not in the faithfulness to forms, but in the liberation from them.

— Boris Pasternak

I'm free... to think and to speak. My ancestors couldn't. I can. And my children will.

— Jefferson Smith

“equality and individual freedom as fundamental values. Yet the two values contradict each other. Equality”

— Yuval Noah Harari

The state is not competent in artistic matters... When the state leaves us free, it will have carried out its duty.

— Gustave Courbet

Love indeed is a cage. But then it has everything you need inside the cage so don't be scare of losing your…

— Terry Mark

Use your lives wisely, my friends, and conserve these precious freedoms for future generations.

— Ted Nugent

Crankish attacks on the freedom to read are common at present. When backed and coordinated by organized groups, they become sinister.

— Ursula K. Le Guin

Let the generations know that women in uniform also guaranteed their freedom.

— Mary Edwards Walker