Quotes About Freedom

A free and prosperous society has no fear of anyone entering it. But a welfare state is scared to death of every poor person who tries to get in and every rich person who tries to get out.

To be self-reliant is to recognize that no one else is as concerned about your future as you are and that no one knows as much about you as you do.

I'm free and happy because I accepted myself as I am and found a life that suits me

Everyone begins life as a free person. But as time passes, most people accept the prearranged programs and never stop to realize the freedom they possess. They accept standards and situations that are unsuitable to them.

The larger the  government,  the  less  efficient  and  productive  is  the  economy.  Slaves  don't produce with the enthusiasm, incentive, and imagination that free people do. Bureaucratic programs just don't work as intended.

If you love something/Set it free/If it loves you/It will come back to you/ If it doesn't--hunt it down and kill it.

Bitterness imprisons life; love releases it

Religion is not a burden, not a weight, it is wings.

Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have.

Liberation by destruction was on the way! We would free them even if we had to kill them all to do it!

Özgürlük her ÅŸeyden üstündür (Das Attentat, p. 79).

You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break.

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.

The United nations is designed to make possible lasting freedom and independence for all its members

Secrecy and a free, democratic government don't mix.

Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a source of terror to all its citizens and creates a country where everyone lives in fear." [ Special Message to the Congress on the Internal Security of the United States , August 8, 1950]

we are] going to continue to fight communism. Now I am going to tell you how we are not going to fight communism. We are not going to transform our fine FBI into a Gestapo secret police. That is what some people would like to do. We are not going to try to control what our people read and say and think. We are not going to turn the United States into a right-wing totalitarian country in order to deal with a left-wing totalitarian threat.

Dictatorship, by whatever name, is founded on the doctrine that the individual amounts to nothing; that the State is the only one that counts; and that men and women and children were put on earth solely for the purpose of serving the state.

I'm hitting the woods just great, but I'm having a terrible time getting out of them.

When even one American - who has done nothing wrong - is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth, then all Americans are in peril.

A great free people owes to itself and to all mankind not to sink into helplessness before the powers of evil. I ask that this people rise to the greatness of its opportunities. I do not ask that it seek the easiest path.

Assassins murdered freedom merely by existing.

I'm not just retiring from the company, I'm also retiring from my stress, my commute, my alarm clock, and my iron.

Young people these days don't trust anything at all. They want to be free.