Quotes About Freedom

Adolescents need freedom to choose, but not so much freedom that they cannot, in fact, make a choice.

Those Who Sacrifice Liberty For Security Deserve Neither.

I had crossed de line of which I had so long been dreaming. I was free; but dere was no one to welcome me to de land of freedom, I was a stranger in a strange land.

In Tanzania, it was more than one hundred tribal units which lost their freedom; it was one nation that regained it.

If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.

I prefer liberty with danger than peace with slavery.

We woman suffragists have a great mission - the greatest mission the world has ever known. It is to free half the human race, and through that freedom to save the rest.

Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost.

You can't stop a revolution from breathin', so to beat 'em they offer people the illusion of freedom.

It is harder to maintain the balance of freedom than it is to endure the weight of tyranny.

You cannot conquer Ireland; you cannot extinguish the Irish passion for freedom. If our deed has not been sufficient to win freedom, then our children will win it by a better deed.

No prison can hold me; no hand or leg irons or steel locks can shackle me. No ropes or chains can keep me from my freedom.

The enemies of the country and of freedom of the people have always denounced as bandits those who sacrifice themselves for the noble causes of the people.

Don't interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be maintained, for it is the only safeguard of our liberties.

Liberty is meaningless where the right to utter one's thoughts and opinions has ceased to exist. That, of all rights, is the dread of tyrants. It is the right which they first of all strike down.

[The] type of education now prevailing all over the world is directed against human freedom. State-controlled education ... deprives people of their free choice, creativity and brilliance.

One cannot desire freedom from the Cross when one is especially chosen for the Cross.

There is no such thing as freedom of choice unless there is freedom to refuse.

My Brain is the key that sets me free.

Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.

We have dared to be free. Let us dare to be so by ourselves and for ourselves.

He who has overcome his fears will truly be free.

The full ashtanga system practiced with devotion leads to freedom within one's heart.

Freedom is the sure possession of those alone who have the courage to defend it.