Quotes about Freedom

“For you who no longer posses it, freedom is everything, for us who do, it is merely an illusion.”

“Tyranny is always better organized than freedom.”

“Our freedom can be measured by the number of things we can walk away from.”

“There can be no real freedom without the freedom to fail.”

“Conservatism is about freedom, yes. But it is also about the institutions and attitudes that shape the responsible citizen, and ensure that freedom is a benefit to us all. Conservatism is therefore also about the limits to freedom.”

“The roots of India's soft power run deep. India's is a civilization that, over millennia, has offered refuge and, more importantly, religious and cultural freedom, to Jews, Parsis, several varieties of Christians, and Muslims.”

“Freedom itself was attacked this morning by a faceless coward, and freedom will be defended.”

“Freedom is control in your own life.”

“They won't break me because the desire for freedom, and the freedom of the Irish people, is in my heart.”

“I am truly free only when all human beings, men and women, are equally free. The freedom of other men, far from negating or limiting my freedom, is, on the contrary, its necessary premise and confirmation.”

“Freedom without rules doesn't work. And communities do not work unless they are regulated by etiquette.”

“Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err.”

“Human freedom involves our capacity to pause, to choose the one response toward which we wish to throw our weight.”

“I find only freedom in the realms of eccentricity.”

“There are two freedoms - the false, where a man is free to do what he likes; the true, where he is free to do what he ought.”

“At times, we take freedom for granted. We really don't know how to cherish the freedom we have until it's taken from us.”

“I'm the age now that Rock was when he picked me up, so I can understand how he felt - how his fame limited his freedom. You get kinder as you go along.”

“Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting.”

“Setting people to spy on one another is not the way to protect freedom.”

“The only way that has ever been discovered to have a lot of people cooperate together voluntarily is through the free market. And that's why it's so essential to preserving individual freedom.”

“When you're in the minority, it doesn't matter what you're agenda is, you're not going to have the degree of freedom that you have as a member of the majority.”