Quotes About Freedom

The greatest right in the world is the right to be wrong.

We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread. They may have been few in number, but they offer sufficient proof that everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of human freedoms - to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances - to choose one's own way.

The world must be made safe for democracy. Its peace must be planted upon the tested foundations of political liberty. We have no selfish ends to serve. We desire no conquest, no domination. We seek no indemnities for ourselves, no material compensation for the sacrifices we shall freely give. We are but one of the champions of the rights of mankind. We shall be satisfied when those rights have been made as secure as the faith and freedom of nations can make them.

A free man is as jealous of his responsibilities as he is of his liberties.

Liberty is the right to do what the law permits.

Once freedom lights its beacon in a man's heart, the gods are powerless against him.

When you have robbed a man of everything, he is no longer in your power. He is free again.

The effect of liberty on individuals is that they may do what they please: we ought to see what it will please them to do, before we risk congratulations.

We are in bondage to the law in order that we may be free.

The tree of liberty grows only when watered by the blood of tyrants.

The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.

Liberty's in every blow! Let us do or die.

Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses, yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest tossed, to me: I lift my lamp beside the golden door.

Give me the liberty to know, to think, to believe, and to utter freely according to conscience, above all other liberties.

0 liberty! how many crimes are committed in thy name!

Liberty is the only thing you cannot have unless you are willing to give it to others.

1 have always in my own thought summed up individual liberty, and business liberty, and every other kind of liberty, in the phrase that is common in the sporting world, "A free field and no favor."

The man who has no inner life is the slave of his surroundings.

It's never too late to have a happy childhood.

Happiness and love are just a choice away.

Literature is my utopia.

You are in the driver's seat of your life and can point your life down any road you want to travel. You can go as fast or as slow as you want to go ... and you can change the road you're on at any time.

Vasectomy means not ever having to say you're sorry.

I happened on the idea of fitting an engine to a bicycle simply because I did not want to ride crowded trains and buses.