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Quotes About Freedom

An individual should not have too much freedom. A nation should have absolute freedom.
~ Sun Yat-sen
Freedom does not mean being free of something, but to be free to do something.
~ Angela Merkel
Only through freedom and environmental experience is it practically possible for human development to occur.
~ Maria Montessori
A nation may lose its liberties in a day and not miss them in a century.
~ Baron de Montesquieu
A society that puts equality before freedom will get neither. A society that puts freedom before equality will get a high degree of both.
~ Milton Friedman
Silence is golden but when it threatens your freedom it's yellow.
~ Edmund Burke
History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.
~ Dwight D. Eisenhower
If I am truly free, who can tell me how much of my freedom I can have today?
~ Fannie Lou Hamer
Freedom of the press is not just important to democracy, it is democracy.
~ Walter Cronkite
He was not bone and feather but a perfect idea of freedom and flight, limited by nothing at all
~ Richard Bach
Five or six hundred heads cut off would have assured your repose, freedom and happiness.
~ Jean-Paul Marat
Freedom, baby, is never having to say youre sorry.
~ Al Pacino
Now, then, in order to understand white supremacy we must dismiss the fallacious notion that white people can give anybody their freedom.
~ Stokely Carmichael
Interesting things happen when the creative impulse is cultivated with curiosity, freedom and intensity.
~ Saul Bass
I believe all Americans who believe in freedom, tolerance and human rights have a responsibility to oppose bigotry and prejudice based on sexual orientation.
~ Coretta Scott King
The free exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world.
~ John Steinbeck
It is important not to confuse freedom with mere permissiveness
~ Theodore Kaczynski
A people who mean to be free must be prepared to meet danger in person, and not rely upon the fallacious protection of armies
~ Edmund Randolph
Those prepared to give their lives in freedom's cause, come over to me.
~ Unknown
My energy comes from freedom and a rebellious spirit.
~ Rei Kawakubo
I was born on the prairies where the wind blew free and there was nothing to break the light of the sun. I was born where there were no enclosures.
~ Geronimo
There is no justification for taking away individuals' freedom in the guise of public safety.
~ Thomas Jefferson
Liberals, it has been said, are generous with other peoples' money, except when it comes to questions of national survival when they prefer to be generous with other people's freedom and security.
~ William F. Buckley, Jr.
The only way you can be free is to know is that you are worthwhile as a distinct human being.
~ Russell Means