Freedom Quotes - page 3

Books were my pass to personal freedom. I learned to read at age three, and soon discovered there was a whole world to conquer that went beyond our farm in Mississippi. (Oprah Winfrey)
Just living is not enough," said the butterfly, "one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower. View quote
Hans Christian Andersen
People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use. View quote
Soren Kierkegaard
Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom. View quote
Soren Kierkegaard
How absurd men are! They never use the liberties they have, they demand those they do not have. They have freedom of thought, they demand freedom of speech. View quote
Soren Kierkegaard
Whoever will be free must make himself free. Freedom is no fairy gift to fall into a man's lap. What is freedom? To have the will to be responsible for one's self. View quote
Max Stirner
Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty. View quote
Frank Herbert
True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made. View quote
Franklin D. Roosevelt
All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope. View quote
Winston Churchill
There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere, and many of us will have to pass through the valley of the shadow of death again and again before we reach the mountaintop of our desires. View quote
Nelson Mandela
None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free. (Pearl S. Buck)
Freedom of expression is the matrix, the indispensable condition, of nearly every other form of freedom. View quote
Benjamin N. Cardozo
Punk is musical freedom. It's saying, doing and playing what you want. In Webster's terms, 'nirvana' means freedom from pain, suffering and the external world, and that's pretty close to my definition of Punk Rock. View quote
Kurt Cobain
Freedom is the sure possession of those alone who have the courage to defend it. View quote
Pericles
Freedom is a possession of inestimable value. View quote
Cicero
The freedom of poetic license. View quote
Cicero
Freedom of choice is more to be treasured than any possession earth can give. View quote
David O. McKay
Here was buried Thomas Jefferson, Author of the Declaration of American Independence, Of the Statute of Virginia for Religious Freedom, And Father of the University of Virginia. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments by those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations. View quote
James Madison
They won't break me because the desire for freedom, and the freedom of the Irish people, is in my heart. The day will dawn when all the people of Ireland will have the desire for freedom to show. It is then that we will see the rising of the moon. View quote
Bobby Sands
You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on having both at once. (Robert A. Heinlein)
Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it. View quote
Thomas Paine
If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom, and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too. View quote
W. Somerset Maugham
There are two good things in life - freedom of thought and freedom of action. View quote
W. Somerset Maugham
Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners. View quote
Vladimir Lenin
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