Freedom Quotes

9007 Freedom quotes by 3931 unique authors

I have complete freedom, and there's no way to get pigeonholed or bored. What could be better than that? — Richard Marx
If it's freedom you want, come to Texas. No one there tells you what to do and how you have to do it. — Edna Ferber
British rule depends upon repression and collaboration and the Irish people should recognise that those who collaborate with Britain in exchange for a slice of… — Martin McGuinness
Is it better to have had a good thing and lost it, or never to have had it? — Charles Dickens
There is, in fact, a manly and lawful passion for equality which excites men to wish all to be powerful and honored. This passion tends… — Alexis de Tocqueville
One has freedom as the principal means of action; the other has servitude. Their . . . paths [are] diverse; nevertheless, each seems called by… — Alexis de Tocqueville
Nobody with open eyes can any longer doubt that the danger to personal freedom comes chiefly from the left. — Friedrich August von Hayek
The sum of all is, if we would most truly enjoy the gift of Heaven, let us become a virtuous people; then shall we both… — Samuel Adams
The Constitution of most of our states (and of the United States) assert that all power is inherent in the people; that they may exercise… — Thomas Jefferson
The principles on which we engaged, of which the charter of our independence is the record, were sanctioned by the laws of our being, and… — Thomas Jefferson
God has formed us moral agents... that we may promote the happiness of those with whom He has placed us in society, by acting honestly… — Thomas Jefferson
It is unfortunate that the efforts of mankind to recover the freedom of which they have been so long deprived, will be accompanied with violence,… — Thomas Jefferson
For if Men are to be precluded from offering their Sentiments on a matter, which may involve the most serious and alarming consequences, that can… — George Washington
Here then is the origin and rise of government; namely, a mode rendered necessary by the inability of moral virtue to govern the world; here… — Thomas Paine
The only freedom we've got is not to react to anything, but to turn within and know the truth. — Robert Adams
All things must come to pass as one, so hope should never die. There is no height or bloody might that a freeman can’t defy.… — Bobby Sands
That coarseness and strength combined with acuteness and inquisitiveness; that practical, inventive turn of mind, quick to find expedients; that masterful grasp of material things,… — Frederick Jackson Turner
I have always been a firm believer in the longstanding American principle of having the right to bear arms and I will remain committed to… — Jeff Miller
In slave times the Negro was kept subservient and submissive by the frequency and severity of the scourging, but, with freedom, a new system of… — Ida B. Wells
Peace, like freedom, is no original state which existed from the start; we shall have to make it, in the truest sense of the word. — Willy Brandt
Can freedom become a burden, too heavy for man to bear, something he tries to escape from?..Is there not also, perhaps, besides an innate desire… — Erich Fromm
Every human being has the freedom to change at any instant. — Viktor E. Frankl
But restraint is the only one sort of control, and absence of restraint isn't freedom. It's not control that's lacking when one feels 'free', but… — B.F. Skinner
Nature smiles at the union of freedom and equality in our utopias. For freedom and equality are sworn and everlasting enemies, and when one prevails… — Will Durant
Even when repressed, inequality grows; only the man who is below the average in economic ability desires equality; those who are conscious of superior ability… — Will Durant

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