Quotes about Freedom

“Yes, across Europe, this wall will fall. For it cannot withstand faith; it cannot withstand truth. The wall cannot withstand freedom.”

“You cannot parcel out freedom in pieces because freedom is all or nothing.”

“It is very easy to make clear what you want a film to say, but I did not wish to engage in overt propaganda, even for the right cause. I wanted to create an experience through the films, something where people could have the freedom of their own response to them.”

“Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.”

“Do you remember any instance where tyranny was destroyed and freedom established on its ruins, among a people possessing so small a share of virtue and public spirit? I recollect none, and this more than the British arms makes me fearful of final success, without a reform.”

“Freedom of ideas and communications is one of the things we are fighting for, and our enemies are fighting against.”

“Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.”

“The revelation of thought takes men out of servitude into freedom.”

“The proletariat uses the State not in the interests of freedom but in order to hold down its adversaries, and as soon as it becomes possible to speak of freedom the State as such ceases to exist.”

“Freedom means the opportunity to be what we never thought we would be.”

“The more decisions that you are forced to make alone, the more you are aware of your freedom to choose.”

“I was only a working-class boy from a Nationalist ghetto. But it is repression that creates the revolutionary spirit of freedom.”

“We've seen over time that countries that have the best economic growth are those that have good governance, and good governance comes from freedom of communication. It comes from ending corruption. It comes from a populace that can go online and say, 'This politician is corrupt, this administrator, or this public official is corrupt.'”

“Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.”

“Freedom is something that dies unless it's used.”

“Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose.”

“So long as you do not achieve social liberty, whatever freedom is provided by the law is of no avail to you.”

“Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.”

“Freedom has cost too much blood and agony to be relinquished at the cheap price of rhetoric.”

“Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same.”

“Private property was the original source of freedom. It still is its main ballpark.”