Quotes About Freedom

Freedom is an internal achievement rather than an external adjustment.

A hungry man is not a free man.

Freedom is the open window through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit and human dignity.

While there is a lower class I am in it; while there is a criminal element I am of it; while there is a soul in prison, I am not free

Tyranny is always better organized than freedom

He who believes in freedom of the will has never loved and never hated

For if Freedom and Communism were to compete for man's allegiance in a world at peace, I would look to the future with ever increasing confidence

Freedom is never given, it is won.

A forest bird never wants a cage.

Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts

While to the claims of charity a man may yield and yet be free, to the claims of conformity no man may yield and remain free at all

We must plan for freedom, and not only for security, if for no other reason than that only freedom can make security secure

True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.

Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.

Freedom to learn is the first necessity of guaranteeing that man himself shall be self-reliant enough to be free

To preserve the freedom of the human mind then and freedom of the press, every spirit should be ready to devote itself to martyrdom; for as long as we may think as we will, and speak as we think, the condition of man will proceed in improvement

When freedom does not have a purpose, when it does not wish to know anything about the rule of law engraved in the hearts of men and women, when it does not listen to the voice of conscience, it turns against humanity and society.

Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty.

The freedom of the city is not negotiable. We cannot negotiate with those who say, What's mine is mine and what's yours is negotiable.

Since the general civilization of mankind, I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpation

There are two freedoms; The false, where man is free to do what he likes; The true, where man is free to do what he ought.

He is free who knows to keep in his own hands the power to decide, at each step, the course of his life and who lives in a society which does not block the exercise of that power

There is no liberation without labor...and there is no freedom which is free.

The Negro's great stumbling block in the drive toward freedom is not the White Citizens Councilor or the Ku Klux Klanner but the white moderate who is more devoted to order than to justice.