Quotes About Freedom

The only kind of freedom that the mob can imagine is freedom to annoy and oppress its betters, and that is precisely the kind that we mainly have

The manner of a vulgar man has freedom without ease; the manner of a gentleman, ease without freedom

The basic test of freedom is perhaps less in what we are free to do than in what we are free not to do.

Being Free Means Being Lonely.

Je hais vos idées, mais je me ferait tuer pour que vous ayez le droit de les exprimer. I hate your ideas, but I would have myself killed so that you could have the right to expres them.

Freedom is not being a slave to any circumstance, to any constraint, to any chance; it means compelling Fortune to enter the lists on equal terms.

Nudists are people who wear one-button suits

Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with deeper fangs than freedom never endangered

Freedom is that instant between when someone tells you to do something and when you decide how to respond.

Without freedom, no one really has a name.

A free people ought not only to be armed, but disciplined; to which end a uniform and well-digested plan is requisite

We must face the fact that the preservation of individual freedom is incompatible with a full satisfaction of our views of distributive justice

Freedom is the oxygen without which science cannot breathe

Oppressed people cannot remain oppressed forever.

Too much tail. All that jewelry weighs it down. Like vanity. Can't nobody fly with all that sh... Wanna fly, you got to give up the sh.. that weighs you down.

Live free or die

So long as the people do not care to exercise their freedom, those who wish to tyrannize will do so; for tyrants are active and ardent, and will devote themselves in the name of any number of gods, religious and otherwise, to put shackles upon sleepi

We do not commonly see in a tax a diminution of freedom, and yet it clearly is one.

Freedom is not an ideal, it is not even a protection, if it means nothing more than the freedom to stagnate.

Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus.

Freedom is only granted us that obedience may be more perfect.

Freedom of speech is of no use to a man who has nothing to say and freedom of worship is of no use to a man who has lost his God.

Only where we ourselves are responsible for our own interests and are free to sacrifice them has our decision moral value. We are neither entitled to be unselfish at someone else's expense nor is there any merit in being unselfish if we have no choice. The members of a society who in all respects are made to do the good thing have no title to praise.

In Genoa, the word, libertas can be read on the front of prisons and on the fetters of galley-slaves. The application of this motto is fine and just.