Freedom Quotes

9007 Freedom quotes by 3931 unique authors

I am... for freedom of the press, and against all violations of the Constitution to silence by force and not by reason the complaints or… — Thomas Jefferson
Considering the great importance to the public liberty of the freedom of the press, and the difficulty of submitting it to very precise rules, the… — Thomas Jefferson
No experiment can be more interesting than that we are now trying, and which we trust will end in establishing the fact, that man may… — Thomas Jefferson
All of us in the academy and in the culture as a whole are called to renew our minds if we are to transform educational… — Bell Hooks
In our struggle against racial segregation in Montgomery, Alabama, I came to see at a very early stage that a synthesis of Gandhi's method of… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery. — Thomas Jefferson
Make no mistake - they're coming for our guns. And we freedom-loving gun lovers are totally defenseless! Other than, you know, the guns. — Stephen Colbert
Remember, we are not fighting for the freedom of the Negro alone, but for the freedom of the human spirit a larger freedom that encompasses… — Ella Baker
Americans need not fear the federal government because they enjoy the advantage of being armed, which you possess over the people of almost every other… — James Madison
The interaction of genetic and external influences makes my behaviour unpredictable, but not undetermined. In the gap between those words lies freedom. — Matt Ridley
The great paradox of determinism and free will, which has held the attention of the wisest of philosophers and psychologists for generations, can be phrased… — E. O. Wilson
When we got organized as a country, [and] wrote a fairly radical Constitution, with a radical Bill of Rights, giving radical amounts of freedom to… — William J. Clinton
I simply cannot stand by and watch a right guaranteed by the Constitution of the United States come under attack from those who either can't… — Charlton Heston
If to die honorably is the greatest Part of virtue, for us fate's done her best. Because we fought to crown Greece with freedom We… — Simonides of Ceos
I will not dissemble the first emotions of joy on the recovery of my freedom, and, perhaps, the establishment of my fame. But my pride… — Edward Gibbon
A Jesus had to be crucified because he was an alive man. He must have called in his childhood, "Jesus, don't be befooled by others."… — Rajneesh
Go forth! Carry the good tidings to the poor, bind the wounds of the brokenhearted, proclaim freedom to slaves, open the doors of prisons to… — Pope Benedict XVI
Meditate, become more aware and then you will see: choices disappear, a choicelessness arises. And it is such a tremendous joy to have a choiceless… — Rajneesh
There is only one way out of the trap: that you don`t choose; neither this nor that - you simply don`t choose. You withdraw from… — Rajneesh
Choice is bondage, choicelessness freedom. The moment you choose something, you have fallen in the trap of the world. If you can resist the temptation… — Rajneesh
Freedom is not a reaction; freedom is not a choice. . Freedom is found in the choiceless awareness of our daily existence and activity. — Jiddu Krishnamurti
Man is a being with free will; therefore, each man is potentially good or evil, and it's up to him and only him (through his… — Ayn Rand
Free will is the ability to do gladly that which I must do. — Carl Jung
The individual man, in introspecting the fact of his own consciousness, also discovers the primordial natural fact of his freedom: his freedom to choose, his… — Murray Rothbard
Free will is not the liberty to do whatever one likes, but the power of doing whatever one sees ought to be done, even in… — George MacDonald

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