Freedom Quotes

9007 Freedom quotes by 3931 unique authors

Individualism, the love of enterprise, and the pride in personal freedom, have been deemed by Americans not only as their choicest, but their peculiar and… — James Bryce
I have often asked Americans wherein they consider their freedom superior to that of the English, but have never found them able to indicate a… — James Bryce
In the life of the human spirit, words are action, much more so than many of us realize who live in countries where freedom of… — Jimmy Carter
From a comparative perspective, the United States is unusual if not unique in the lack of restraints on freedom of expression. It is also unusual… — Noam Chomsky
When we got organized as a country and we wrote a fairly radical Constitution with a radical Bill of Rights, giving a radical amount of… — William J. Clinton
The Bill of Rights is a born rebel. It reeks with sedition. In every clause it shakes its fist in the face of constituted authority...… — Frank I. Cobb
But what is Freedom? Rightly understood, A universal licence to be good. — Hartley Coleridge
Perfect Freedom is reserved for the man who lives by his own work, and in that work does what he wants to do. — Robin G. Collingwood
Freedom is not a luxury that we can indulge in when at last we have security and prosperity and enlightenment; it is, rather, antecedent to… — Henry Steele Commager
The justification and the purpose of freedom of speech is not to indulge those who want to speak their minds. It is to prevent error… — Henry Steele Commager
But slaves that once conceive the glowing thought Of freedom, in that hope itself possess All that the contest calls for; spirit, strength, The scorn… — William Cowper
The man who asks of freedom anything other than itself is born to be a slave. — Alexis de Tocqueville
Students throughout the totalitarian world risk life and limb for freedom of expression, many American college students are demanding that big brother restrict their freedom… — Alan Dershowitz
To be what no one ever was, to be what everyone has been: Freedom is the mean of those extremes that fence all effort in. — Mark Van Doren
Individuality is freedom lived. — John Dos Passos
Ideas are indeed the most dangerous weapons in the world. Our ideas of freedom are the most powerful political weapons man has ever forged. — William O. Douglas
The real guarantee of freedom is an equilibrium of social forces in conflict, not the triumph of any one force. — Max Eastman
We cannot choose freedom established on a hierarchy of degrees of freedom, on a caste system of equality like military rank. We must be free… — William Faulkner
If a blending of individualism and of cooperative participation is a prerequisite to a democratic solution of the problems of a society of free men,… — Marshall Field
Let us remember that revolutions do not always establish freedom. Our own free institutions were not the offspring of our revolution. They existed before. — Millard Fillmore
Freedom in economic arrangements is itself a component of freedom broadly understood, so economic freedom is an end in itself ... Economic freedom is also… — Milton Friedman
English character and English freedom depend comparatively little on the form which the Constitution assumes at Westminster. A centralised democracy may be as tyrannical as… — James Anthony Froude
...regrettable as it may seem to the idealist, the experience of history provides little warrant for the belief that real progress, and the freedom that… — B. H. Liddell Hart
...the case for individual freedom rests largely on the recognition of the inevitable and universal ignorance of all of us concerning a great many of… — Friedrich August von Hayek
The system of private property is the most important guaranty of freedom, not only for those who own property, but scarcely less for those who… — Friedrich August von Hayek

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