Quotes About Freedom

Better to die fighting for freedom then be a prisoner all the days of your life.

Clearing out all your misery gets you out of the way. You cease being an obstacle, not only to yourself but to anyone else. Only then are you free to serve and enjoy other people.

I have found both freedom and safety in my madness; the freedom of loneliness and the safety from being understood, for those who understand us enslave something in us.

Liberals are not unconcerned with economic liberty, but they have come to believe that the common good requires that social justice be given a higher priority than absolute economic freedom.

A mans spirit is free, but his pride binds him with chains of suffocation in a prison of his own insecurities

The only way to make sure people you agree with can speak is to support the rights of people you don't agree with.

The spirit of liberty is not merely, as multitudes imagine, a jealousy of our own particular rights, but a respect for the rights of others, and an unwillingness that any man, whether high or low, should be wronged and trampled under foot.

Hospitality means primarily the creation of free space where the stranger can enter and become a friend instead of an enemy. Hospitality is not to change people, but to offer them space where change can take place. It is not to bring men and women over to our side, but to offer freedom not disturbed by dividing lines.

A horse loves freedom, and the weariest old work horse will roll on the ground or break into a lumbering gallop when he is turned loose into the open.

We are never more fully alive, more completely ourselves, or more deeply engrossed in anything, than when we are at play.

Those people, who hate you, envy your freedom.

Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. And so we must straighten our backs and work for our freedom. A man can't ride you unless your back is bent.

I want freedom for the full expression of my personality.

The greatest menace to freedom is an inert people.

The greatest enemy of individual freedom is the individual himself.

If in other lands the press and books and literature of all kinds are censored, we must redouble our efforts here to keep them free

We must show that liberty is not merely one particular value but that it is the source and condition of most moral values. What a free society offers to the individual is much more than what he would be able to do if only he were free. We can therefore not fully appreciate the value of freedom until we know how a society of free men as a whole differs from one in which unfreedom prevails.

There are those who will say that the liberation of humanity, the freedom of man and mind is nothing but a dream. They are right. It is the American Dream.

Freedom of expression - in particular, freedom of the press - guarantees popular participation in the decisions and actions of government, and popular participation is the essence of our democracy.

As long as I don't write about the government, religion, politics, and other institutions, I am free to print anything.

In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I do not shrink from this responsibility - I welcome it.

We all need the freedom to die noble in a life that has been unworthy of us, being subject to sin and emptiness.

If the freedom of religion, guaranteed to us by law in theory, can ever rise in practice under the overbearing inquisition of public opinion, then and only then will truth, prevail over fanaticism

The known propensity of a democracy is to licentiousness which the ambitious call, and the ignorant believe to be liberty.