Quotes About Freedom

So this is how liberty dies. With thunderous applause.

Train yourself to let go of the things you fear to lose.

The Yanks are coming,The drums rum-tumming everywhere.

I'm a Yankee Doodle dandy,A Yankee Doodle do or die;A real live nephew of my Uncle Sam'sBorn on the Fourth of July.

Ev'ry heart beats true 'neath the Red, White and Blue,

You're a grand old flag, You're a high flying flag And forever in peace may you wave.

A man is as free as he chooses to make himself, never an atom freer.

I am not a number, I am a free man!

The freedom of the press is one of the greatest bulwarks of liberty, and can never be restrained but by despotic governments.

That all men are by nature equally free and independent, and have certain inherent rights, of which, when they enter into a state of society, they cannot by any compact deprive or divest their posterity; namely, the enjoyment of life and liberty, with the means of acquiring and possessing property, and pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety.

To disarm the people... was the best and most effectual way to enslave them.

I've come to realize that protecting freedom of choice in our everyday lives is essential to maintaining a healthy civil society.

Only time will set you free, just like me

to be an American, a citizen of what I believe to be, despite its many serious imperfections, the most open, the most free, the most just society in all of human history. In America no one should be guaranteed success, but everyone should have a fair chance to succeed.

The invasion of our privacy by our every move being watched on the internet and our being filmed when we step outside is like the weather. We bitch but we still put up with it.

One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes a revolution in order to establish a dictatorship.

In the end we shall make thoughtcrime literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it.

It's a beautiful thing, the destruction of words.

Freedom is the right to say two plus two make four. If granted, all else follows.

The further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it.

Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.

It's a beautiful thing, the destruction of words.

One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish a dictatorship.

Until they became conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious." (Orwell, "1984")