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Quotes About Freedom

In republican governments, men are all equal; equal they are also in despotic governments: in the former, because they are everything; in the latter, because they are nothing.
~ Baron de Montesquieu
Democracy is good. I say this because other systems are worse.
~ Jawaharlal Nehru
Socialism is inseparably interwoven with totalitarianism and the object worship of the state.
~ Winston Churchill
Man in general, if reduced to himself, is too wicked to be free.
~ Joseph de Maistre
I am at liberty to vote as my conscience and judgment dictates to be right, without the yoke of any party on me... Look at my arms, you will find no party hand-cuff on them.
~ David Crockett
The flag still stands for freedom and they can't take that away.
~ Lee Greenwood
If our Founding Fathers wanted us to care about the rest of the world, they wouldn't have declared their independence from it.
~ Stephen Colbert
Liberty is never safer than when politicans are terrified.
~ Ted Cruz
Intellectual freedom is the only guarantee of a scientific - democratic approach to politics, economic development, and culture.
~ Andrei Sakharov
Freedom may be a value in politics, but it is not a value in morals.
~ Iris Murdoch
Since governments take the right of death over their people, it is not astonishing if the people should sometimes take the right of death over governments.
~ Guy de Maupassant
Censorship should never be allowed. One should be able to say anything. But I refuse to let politics be foisted on me.
~ Orhan Pamuk
The real struggle for us is for the citizen to cease to be the property of the state.
~ Adam Michnik
In a democracy, dissent is an act of faith.
~ J. William Fulbright
As government expands, liberty contracts.
~ Ronald Reagan
The soul of our politics is the commitment to ending domination.
~ bell hooks
Dictators free themselves by enslaving others. They work not for your benefit, but their own.
~ Charlie Chaplin
David Boaz has been my guide to the history, economics, and politics of freedom for years.
~ John Stossel
I feel that if I am freed of the burden of politics, then I can do more and I can take more unpopular decisions. I can have as my guidance for decision whatever is right, not whatever is popular.
~ Gloria Macapagal Arroyo
Laws cannot be imposed on him who is the master of the law.
~ Benvenuto Cellini
Hope is the fuel of progress and fear is the prison in which you put yourself.
~ Tony Benn
Music will always find its way to us, with or without business, politics, religion, or any other bullshit attached.
~ Eric Clapton
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law.
~ Aleister Crowley
Socialism is a new form of slavery.
~ Alexis de Tocqueville