Freedom Quotes

9007 Freedom quotes by 3931 unique authors

As long as I have any choice in the matter, I shall live only in a country where civil liberty, tolerance and equality of all… — Albert Einstein
Formerly no one was allowed to think freely; now it is permitted, but no one is capable of it any more. Now people want to… — Oswald Spengler
As I watch government at all levels daily eat away at our freedom, I keep thinking how prosperity and government largesse have combined to make… — Lyn Nofziger
One of the things that bothers me most is the growing belief in the country that security is more important than freedom. It ain't. — Lyn Nofziger
The people cannot be all, and always, well informed. The part which is wrong will be discontented, in proportion to the importance of the facts… — Thomas Jefferson
To consider judges as the ultimate arbiters of all constitutional questions is a very dangerous doctrine indeed, and one which would place us under the… — Thomas Jefferson
When the representative body have lost the confidence of their constituents, when they have notoriously made sale of their most valuable rights, when they have… — Thomas Jefferson
But to manipulate men, to propel them toward goals which you-the social reformers-see, but they may not, is to deny their human essence, to treat… — Isaiah Berlin
My notion of democracy is that under it the weakest shall have the same opportunities as the strongest... no country in the world today shows… — Mahatma Gandhi
A man's liberties are none the less aggressed upon because those who coerce him do so in the belief that he will be benefited. — Herbert Spencer
Power, after all, is not just military strength. It is the social power that comes from democracy, the cultural power that comes from freedom of… — Edward Said
I have never had a feeling, politically, that did not spring from the Declaration of Independence that all should have an equal chance. This is… — Abraham Lincoln
Any time we deny any citizen the full exercise of his constitutional rights, we are weakening our own claim to them. — Dwight D. Eisenhower
Without Virtue there can be no liberty — Benjamin Rush
Circus dogs jump when the trainer cracks his whip. — George Orwell
Who ordained that the few should have the land (of Britain) as a prerequisite; who made 10,000 people owners of the soil and the rest… — David Lloyd George
They have exiled me now from their society and I am pleased, because humanity does not exile except the one whose noble spirit rebels against… — Khalil Gibran
If we don't fight hard enough for the things we stand for, at some point we have to recognize that we don't really stand for… — Paul Wellstone
Human history begins with man's act of disobedience which is at the very same time the beginning of his freedom and development of his reason. — Erich Fromm
I take a grave view of the press. It is the weak slat under the bed of democracy — A J Liebling
Honor, justice, and humanity, forbid us tamely to surrender that freedom which we received from our gallant ancestors, and which our innocent posterity have a… — Thomas Jefferson
The Negro has no room to make any substantial compromises because his store of advantages is too small. He must press unrelentingly for quality, integrated… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
I am not unmindful that some of you have come here out of great trials and tribulations. Some of you have come fresh from narrow… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
The aim of any good constitution is to achieve in a society a high degree of political harmony, so that order and justice and freedom… — Russell Kirk
Beware of those who would use violence, too often it is violence they want and neither truth nor freedom. — Louis L'Amour

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