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
– George Carlin
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?
What do you gain, Soviet Union, from this miserable policy Where is your decency Would it be a disgrace for you to give up this battle (On suppression of freedom for Jews in the USSR)
– Golda Meir
What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly... it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as Freedom should not be highly rated.
– Thomas Paine
When an American says that he loves his country, 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 Ewing Stevenson
When men are brought face to face with their opponents, forced to listen and learn and mend their ideas, they cease to be children and savages and begin to live like civilized men. Then only is freedom a reality, when men may voice their opinions because they must examine their opinions.
– Walter Lippmann
When you come across with the ideas that you don’t like and even hate, do these three things: Be tolerant, be tolerant and be tolerant! Let them speak! Let the stupid and even the fools speak! Protecting freedom of expression under every circumstance is an honour for a man!
– Mehmet Murat ildan
Whenever men take the law into their own hands, the loser is the law. And when the law loses, freedom languishes.
– Robert Francis Kennedy
While the State exists, there can be no freedom. When there is freedom there will be no State.
– Lenin
Wild horses don't know the burning taste of the whips. Freedom protects us from the many evils!
With the first link, the chain is forged. The first speech unsanctioned, the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied - chains us all irrevocably.
– Aaron Satie
Without freedom from the past, there is no freedom at all, because the mind is never new, fresh, innocent.
– J. Krishnamurti
Without freedom, no art art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others.
– Albert Camus
Woe to that nation whose literature is cut short by the intrusion of force. This is not merely interference with freedom of the press but the sealing up of a nation's heart, the excision of its memory.
– Salman Rushdie
You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man's freedom. You can only be free if I am free.
– Clarence Darrow
You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.
– Malcolm X
You have spent many lives and much treasure to bring freedom to many lands that were reluctant to receive it. And here you have a people who won it by themselves and need only the help to preserve it.
– Corazn Cojuangco Aquino
Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not as we expect it to be but as it is--is to see that unless we live for each other and in and through each other, we do not really live very satisfactorily that there can really be life only where there really is, in just this sense, love.
– Frederick Buechner
Your life is the sum result of all the choices you make, both consciously and unconsciously. If you can control the process of choosing, you can take control of all aspects of your life. You can find the freedom that comes from being in charge of yourself.
– Robert F. Bennett
“Freedom is more than just a word and a patriotic concept. It is the purest intent of God."
– Steve Maraboli
“The empowered mind gravitates towards freedom and helps you break free of all limitations."
