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Quotes About Freedom

On the wagon sped, and I, as well as my comrades, gave a despairing farewell glance at freedom as we came in sight of the long stone buildings.
~ Nellie Bly
Any one who wants to live in peace and freedom will be to live by toil, demonstration of high levels of discipline and tolerance for one another.
~ Yahya Jammeh
Fridays are the hardest in some ways: you're so close to freedom.
~ Lauren Oliver
If you want to love you must serve, if you want freedom you must die.
~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
I was a dog on a short chain / and now there's no chain.
~ Jim Harrison
Freedom for the pike is death for the minnow.
~ R. H. Tawney
If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.
~ Thomas Jefferson
Freedom of speech, freedom of the press, and freedom of religion all have a double aspect - freedom of thought and freedom of action.
~ Frank Murphy
In The Police, in a trio situation - which I've come back to now - it's just so wide open that it does actually provide this arena where you can play with a certain freedom.
~ Andy Summers
Freedom of thought and freedom of speech in our great institutions are absolutely necessary for the preservation of our country. The moment either is restricted, liberty begins to wither and die.
~ John Peter Altgeld
Freedom without opportunity is a devil's gift, and the refusal to provide such opportunities is criminal
~ Noam Chomsky
Freedom is incomplete without social justice.
~ Atal Bihari Vajpayee
Ed Sullivan brought me to TV first in 1952, then Garry Moore's program gave me a lot of confidence and freedom.
~ Alan King
If I can sit down for freedom, you can stand up for children.
~ Rosa Parks
Freedom is from something. What are you to be free from? Obviously, you must be free from the person you take yourself to be, for it is the idea you have of yourself that keeps you in bondage.
~ Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere, and many of us will have to pass through the valley of the shadow of death again and again before we reach the mountaintop of our desires.
~ Nelson Mandela
Freedom is always the freedom of dissenters.
~ Rosa Luxemburg
If freedom is to be saved and enlarged, poverty must be ended. There is no other solution.
~ Aneurin Bevan
In short, is not liberty the freedom of every person to make full use of his faculties, so long as he does not harm other persons while doing so?
~ Frederic Bastiat
Freedom for the wolves has often meant death to the sheep.
~ Isaiah Berlin
The search for human freedom can never be complete without freedom for women.
~ Betty Ford
The EU leaves us no freedom to determine our own immigration and asylum laws. That's why leaving the EU is necessary.
~ Geert Wilders
Freedom is a muscle...you have to exercise it.
~ Roy Scheider
The first duty of every soul is to find not its freedom but its Master.
~ Peter Forsyth