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Freedom QuotesFamous Freedom quotes by popular authors such as Jim Morrison, Gilbert K. Chesterton, Ronald Reagan, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Adlai E. Stevenson and others.
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[highlight-text]Freedom works.
Jeane Kirkpatrick
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[highlight-text]Owe no man anything.
Romans
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[highlight-text]Freedom is not for the timid.
Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit
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[highlight-text]All men are born equally free.
Salmon P. Chase
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[highlight-text]A right delayed is a right denied.
Martin Luther King Jr.
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[highlight-text]The cause of freedom is the cause of God.
Samuel Bowles
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[highlight-text]The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
Thomas Jefferson
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[highlight-text]Freedom is nothing else but a chance to be better.
Albert Camus
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[highlight-text]Better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
Author Unknown
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[highlight-text]If you wanna be free you've gotta accept everything.
Jason Mechalek
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[highlight-text]Freedom of the press is limited to those who own one.
Henry Mencken
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[highlight-text]A free society is one where it is safe to be unpopular.
Adlai E. Stevenson
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[highlight-text]Arise and take our stand for freedom as in the olden time.
Winston Churchill
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[highlight-text]If society fits you comfortably enough you call it freedom.
Robert Frost
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[highlight-text]A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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[highlight-text]Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
Abraham Lincoln
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[highlight-text]A desire to resist oppression is implanted in the nature of man.
Tacitus
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[highlight-text]The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are.
Jim Morrison
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[highlight-text]If freedom is short of weapons we must compensate with willpower.
Adolf Hitler
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[highlight-text]Just as war is freedom's cost disagreement is freedom's privilege.
Bill Clinton
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[highlight-text]Freedom is hammered out on the anvil of discussion dissent and debate.
Hubert H. Humphrey
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[highlight-text]Life is not so short but that there is always time enough for courtesy.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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[highlight-text]A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself.
Jim Morrison
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[highlight-text]A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
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[highlight-text]Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure.
Bertrand Russell
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[highlight-text]History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
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[highlight-text]The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear.
Aung San Suu Kyi
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[highlight-text]The search for human freedom can never be complete without freedom for women.
Betty Ford
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[highlight-text]To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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[highlight-text]People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
Soren Aabye Kierkegaard
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[highlight-text]Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.
Milton Friedman
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[highlight-text]The history of free men is never really written by chance but by choice -- their choice.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
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[highlight-text]No man is entitled to the blessings of freedom unless he be vigilant in its preservation.
Douglas MacArthur
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[highlight-text]Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.
Martin Luther King Jr.
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[highlight-text]He that is kind is free though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave though he be a king.
Saint Augustine
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[highlight-text]Americans are so enamored of equality they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom.
Alexis de Tocqueville
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[highlight-text]Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must like men undergo the fatigue of supporting it.
Thomas Paine
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[highlight-text]The last if not the greatest of the human freedoms: to choose their own attitude in any given circumstance.
Bruno Bettelheim
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[highlight-text]I believe the highest aspiration of man should be individual freedom and the development of the individual.
Ronald Reagan
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[highlight-text]I should have loved freedom I believe at all times but in the time in which we live I am ready to worship it.
Alexis de Tocqueville
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[highlight-text]Freedom is not America's gift to the world it is the Almighty God's gift to every man and woman in this world.
George W. Bush
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[highlight-text]Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it Almighty God!
Patrick Henry
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[highlight-text]Freedom is not a gift bestowed upon us by other men but a right that belongs to us by the laws of God and nature.
Benjamin Franklin
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[highlight-text]The last of the human freedoms: to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances to choose one's own way.
Viktor Frankl
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[highlight-text]If a nation expects to be ignorant and free in a state of civilization it expects what never was and never will be.
Thomas Jefferson
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[highlight-text]My fellow citizens of the world: ask not what America will do for you but what together we can do for the freedom of man.
John F. Kennedy
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[highlight-text]It is my living sentiment and by the blessing of God it shall be my dying sentiment independence now and independence forever.
Daniel Webster
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[highlight-text]Freedom is not something that anybody can be given; freedom is something people take and people are as free as they want to be.
James Baldwin
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[highlight-text]Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.
Jim Morrison
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[highlight-text]If you want total security go to prison. There you're fed clothed given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking... is freedom.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
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[highlight-text]The jaws of power are always open to devour and her arm is always stretched out if possible to destroy the freedom of thinking speaking and writing.
John Adams
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[highlight-text]Most modern freedom is at root fear. It is not so much that we are too bold to endure rules; it is rather that we are too timid to endure responsibilities.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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[highlight-text]The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask.
Jim Morrison
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[highlight-text]Our natural inalienable rights are now considered to be a dispensation from government and freedom has never been so fragile so close to slipping from our grasp as it is at this moment.
Ronald Reagan
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[highlight-text]Freedom is not an ideal it is not even a protection if it means nothing more than freedom to stagnate to live without dreams to have no greater aim than a second car and another television set.
Adlai E. Stevenson
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[highlight-text]There is only one force of history that can break the reign of hatred and resentment and expose the pretensions of tyrants and reward the hopes of the decent and tolerant and that is the force of human freedom.
George W. Bush
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[highlight-text]Rome remained free for four hundred years and Sparta eight hundred although their citizens were armed all that time; but many other states that have been disarmed have lost their liberties in less than forty years.
Nicolo Machiavelli
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[highlight-text]Freedom is the right to question and change the established way of doing things. It is the continuous revolution of the marketplace. It is the understanding that allows us to recognize shortcomings and seek solutions.
Ronald Reagan
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[highlight-text]By our efforts we have lit a fire as well--a fire in the minds of men. It warms those who feel its power it burns those who fight its progress and one day this untamed fire of freedom will reach the darkest corners of our world.
George W. Bush
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[highlight-text]The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one's time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all.
Henry Mencken
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[highlight-text]The free man owns himself. He can damage himself with either eating or drinking; he can ruin himself with gambling. If he does he is certainly a damn fool and he might possibly be a damned soul; but if he may not he is not a free man any more than a dog.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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[highlight-text]Freedom is the recognition that no single person no single authority or government has a monopoly on the truth but that every individual life is infinitely precious that every one of us put in this world has been put there for a reason and has something to offer.
Ronald Reagan
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[highlight-text]I argue that we deserve the choice to do whatever we want with our faces and bodies without being punished by an ideology that is using attitudes economic pressure and even legal judgments regarding women's appearance to undermine us psychologically and politically.
Naomi Wolf
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[highlight-text]From the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire let freedom ring. From the mighty mountains of New York let freedom ring. From the heightening Alleghenies of Pennsylvania let freedom ring. But not only that: Let freedom ring from every hill and molehill of Mississippi.
Martin Luther King Jr.
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[highlight-text]The Declaration of Independence dogmatically bases all rights on the fact that God created all men equal; and it is right; for if they were not created equal they were certainly evolved unequal. There is no basis for democracy except in a dogma about the divine origin of man.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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[highlight-text]If ye love wealth greater than liberty the tranquility of servitude greater than the animating contest for freedom go home from us in peace. We seek not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you; May your chains set lightly upon you and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen.
Samuel Adams
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[highlight-text]When an American says that he loves his country he means not only that he loves the New England hills the prairies glistening in the sun the wide and rising plains the great mountains and the sea. He means that he loves an inner air an inner light in which freedom lives and in which a man can draw the breath of self-respect.
Adlai E. Stevenson