Quotes about Freedom

“Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.”

“Art is the daughter of freedom.”

“Well, if crime fighters fight crime and fire fighters fight fire, what do freedom fighters fight? They never mention that part to us, do they?”

“Consciously or unconsciously most of us adhere to what is expected of our role because we realize our social success depends on this. Some may refuse to play this game, but in the end they are marginalized and forced to play the outsider role, with limited options and decreasing freedom as they get older.”

“We have no blasphemy laws these days but with that freedom comes the responsibility which should always attend the exercise of free speech: truth, courtesy and an awareness of impact. It is the last of these which is so neglected by so much modern comedy.”

“The path we have chosen for the present is full of hazards, as all paths are. The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission.”

“Modernism released us from the constraints of everything that had gone before with a euphoric sense of freedom.”

“Now, then, in order to understand white supremacy we must dismiss the fallacious notion that white people can give anybody their freedom.”

“Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.”

“If I fall, I'll fall five feet four inches forward in the fight for freedom. I'm not backing off.”

“I chose America as my home because I value freedom and democracy, civil liberties and an open society.”

“Our culture is just a series of checks and balances. The whole idea that we're in a battle between tyranny and freedom - it's a series of pendulum swings.”

“Freedom comes from strength and self-reliance.”

“I refuse to accept that the shackles of slavery can ever be stronger than the quest for freedom.”

“The best road to progress is freedom's road.”

“Freedom cannot be given... It can only be taken away.”

“As long as men are free to ask what they must, free to say what they think, free to think what they will, freedom can never be lost and science can never regress.”

“Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in his never wholly successful attempts to liberate himself from necessity.”

“With hindsight, it is easy to understand why Nelson Mandela became a heroic symbol to an entire generation as he used his newly gained freedom to lead South Africa out of the shackles of apartheid.”

“I wanted to be the moron of the family, because morons seemed to have more fun, more freedom and more personality.”

“I think writing gives me creative freedom.”