Quotes about Freedom

“Emancipation from the bondage of the soil is no freedom for the tree.”

“This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.”

“And it's one thing to give people freedom and something else to deny the rights of Christians to assert their faith in order to keep Hindus from feeling upset.”

“Ruin is the destination toward which all men rush, each pursuing his own best interest in a society that believes in the freedom of the commons.”

“Do not allow to slip away from you freedoms the people who came before you won with such hard knocks.”

“I want to have the freedom to do whatever I want.”

“We, the People, recognize that we have responsibilities as well as rights; that our destinies are bound together; that a freedom which only asks what's in it for me, a freedom without a commitment to others, a freedom without love or charity or duty or patriotism, is unworthy of our founding ideals, and those who died in their defense.”

“By limiting or denying freedom of speech and expression, we take away a lot of potential. We take away thoughts and ideas before they even have the opportunity to hatch. We build a world around negatives - you can't say, think, or do this or that.”

“Freedom does not come without a price. We may sometimes take for granted the many liberties we enjoy in America, but they have all been earned through the ultimate sacrifice paid by so many of the members of our armed forces.”

“In the very early days of Wham! the attention felt great, but I do wonder how much freedom I gave away by trying to become something I wasn't.”

“But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.”

“Matangi's mantra is aim, which is MIA backwards. She fights for freedom of speech and stands for truth, and lives in the ghetto because her dad was the first person in Hindu mythology who came from the 'hood, but had gained enlightenment through not being a Brahmin.”

“Fashion is an imposition, a reign on freedom.”

“It is a strange fact that freedom and equality, the two basic ideas of democracy, are to some extent contradictory. Logically considered, freedom and equality are mutually exclusive, just as society and the individual are mutually exclusive.”

“There are more things to gain from eliminating excess than you might imagine: time, space, freedom, and energy, for example.”

“The link between my experience as an entrepreneur and that of a politician is all in one word: freedom.”

“Press freedom is not just about journalists, right? It's not just about us, it's not just about me, it's not just about Rappler. Press freedom is... the foundation of every single right of every single Filipino to the truth, so that we can hold the powerful to account.”

“Freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought.”

“We are driven by five genetic needs: survival, love and belonging, power, freedom, and fun.”

“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.”

“We are all different. Yet we are all God's children. We are all united behind this country and the common cause of freedom, justice, fairness, and equality. That is what unites us.”