Only necessity understood, and bondage to the highest is identical with true freedom.
– William James
Our freedom is our sacred cow; no one should touch it! We must be very pious in this holy matter.
– Mehmet Murat ildan
Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press and that cannot be limited without being lost.
– Thomas Jefferson
Peace is precious to us. It is the way of life we strive for with all the strength and wisdom we possess. But more precious than peace are freedom and justice. We will fight, if fight we must, to keep our freedom and to prevent justice from being destroyed.
– Harry S Truman
People can be in general pretty well trusted, of course--with the clock of their freedom ticking as loud as it seems to do here--to keep an eye on the fleeting hour.
– Henry James, "The Ambassadors", Book Fifth, Chapter 2
People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.
– Kierkegaard
People unfit for freedom - who cannot do much with it - are hungry for power. The desire for freedom is an attribute of a "have" type of self. It says: leave me alone and I shall grow, learn, and realize my capacities. The desire for power is basically an attribute of a "have not" type of self.
– Eric Hoffer
Politics [is] the art of achieving the maximum amount of freedom for individuals that is consistent with the maintenance of social order.
– Barry Goldwater
Real freedom lies in wildness, not in civilization.
– Charles Lindbergh
Seek freedom and become captive of your desires, seek discipline and find your liberty.
– Frank Herbert, Dune
Self-immolation as a way to protest against the injustices or as a way to fight for freedom cannot be accepted! All the fights must be done in the dimension of existence! Your body is your road to everywhere; if you destroy it, you lose all the roads! Stay firm and fight alive; no cause is more valuable than a man’s life! Keep your body out of the fire! Don’t ever praise the self-immolations; condemn them! Suicide is a defeat! Power is to fight, to fight peacefully, and not to die in agony!
Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
– Patricia Sampson
Shall not one line lament our forest race, Struck out for you from wild creation's face Freedom-the selfsame freedom you adore-Bade us defend our violated shore.
– Simon Pokagon
Since the Exodus, freedom has always spoken with a Hebrew accent.
– Heinrich Heine
So long as faith with freedom reigns And loyal hope survives, And gracious charity remains To leaven lowly lives; While there is one untrodden tract For intellect or will, And men are free to think and act, Life is worth living still.
– Alfred Austin
Solitude is the beginning of all freedom.
– William Orville Douglas
Solitude is the rebel of the freedom.
Some people surrender their freedom willingly but others are forced to surrender it. Imprisonment begins with birth. Society, parents they refuse to allow you to keep the freedom you were born with. There are subtle ways to punish a person for daring to feel. You see that everyone around you has destroyed his true feeling nature. You imitate what you see.
– Jim Morrison
Statesmen may plan and speculate for liberty but it is religion and morality alone that can establish the principles upon which freedom can securely stand.
– John Adams
The aim of art, the aim of a life can only be to increase the sum of freedom and responsibility to be found in every man and in the world. It cannot, under any circumstances, be to reduce or suppress that freedom, even temporarily. No great work has ever been based on hatred and contempt. On the contrary, there is not a single true work of art that has not in the end added to the inner freedom of each person who has known and loved it.
– Albert Camus
The aim of sadism is to transform a man into a thng, something animate into something inanimate, since by complete and absolute control the living loses one essential quality of life-freedom.
– Erich Fromm
The bigger the information media, the less courage and freedom they allow. Bigness means weakness.
– Eric Sevareid
The birthplace of success for each person is in his Inner-Consciousness. The Inner-Consciousness will use whatever it is given. If constructive thoughts are planted positive outcomes will be the result. Plant the seeds of failure and failure will follow. And since the only real freedom a person has is the choice of what thoughts he will feed to his Inner-Consciousness he is totally responsible for the outcomes he gets.
– Sidney Madwed
The case for trade is not just monetary, but moral. Economic freedom creates habits of liberty. And habits of liberty create expectations of democracy.
– George W. Bush, speech, November 19, 1999
The desire for freedom resides in every human heart. And that desire cannot be contained forever by prison walls, or martial laws, or secret police. Over time, and across the Earth, freedom will find a way.
– George W. Bush, Speech to UN General Assembly, September 21, 2004
