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Quotes About Freedom

Poor is the man whose pleasures depend on the permission of another.
~ Madonna Ciccone
When the white man turns tyrant, it is his own freedom that he destroys
~ George Orwell
Mental slavery is mental death, and every man who has given up his intellectual freedom is the living coffin of his dead soul.
~ Robert Green Ingersoll
A free man must not be told how to think, either by the government or by social activists. He may certainly be shown the right way, but he must not accept being forced into it.
~ Jeff Cooper
At times history and fate meet at a single time in a single place to shape a turning point in man's unending search for freedom.
~ Lyndon B. Johnson
Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master.
~ Sallust
[Donald Trump] is his own man - distinctly American. And where else would an independent spirit like his find a following than in the land of the free and the home of the brave?
~ Mike Pence
The American Constitution declares 'All men are born equal.' The British Socialist Party add: 'All men must be kept equal'.
~ Winston Churchill
Among free men there can be no successful appeal from the ballot to the bullet.
~ Abraham Lincoln
An ordinary man seeks freedom through enlightenment. An enlightened man expresses freedom through being ordinary.
~ Adyashanti
Man, if I was back home, I'd be swinging with two chicks on my arms.
~ Sam Cooke
Too much liberty leads both men and nations to slavery.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
The law, which restrains a man from doing mischief to his fellow citizens, though it diminishes the natural, increases the civil liberty of mankind.
~ WILLIAM BLACKSTONE
The will of man without grace is not free, but is enslaved, and that too with its own consent.
~ Martin Luther
I felt only as a man can feel who is roaming over the prairies of the far West, well armed, and mounted on a fleet and gallant steed.
~ Buffalo Bill
Freedom of press and freedom of speech: What a blessing for a country while in the hands of honest, patriotic men; what a curse if in the hands of designing demagogues.
~ William J. H. Boetcker
I have no fear that the result of our experiment will be that men may be trusted to govern themselves without a master.
~ Thomas Jefferson
The praise of free men is worth having, for it is the only praise which is free from either servility or condescension.
~ Bernard Crick
No man has a natural right to commit aggression on the equal rights of another; and this is all from which the laws ought to restrain him.
~ Thomas Jefferson
There's no man, alive or dead, who's going to fault you for living.
~ Jeffrey Dean Morgan
Only the man who lives in the laws of GOD is free
~ Abd-Ru-Shin
Every man is an artist.
~ Joseph Beuys
Anyone who can appease a man's conscience can take his freedom away from him.
~ Fyodor Dostoevsky
Man is free; yet we must not suppose that he is at liberty to do everything he pleases, for he becomes a slave the moment he allows his actions to be ruled by passion.
~ Giacomo Casanova