Quotes About Freedom

I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and democracy-but that could change.

The best way to enhance freedom in other lands is to demonstrate here that our democratic system is worthy of emulation

The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency

We have to show these men and women freedom by enslaving them, and show them courage by frightening them.

The freedom to move forward to new opportunities and to produce results comes from living in the present not the past

It is true you cannot eat freedom and you cannot power machinery with democracy. But then neither can political prisoners turn on the light in the cells of a dictatorship.

I do not want art for a few any more than education for a few, or freedom for a few.

We must not believe the many, who say that only free people ought to be educated, but we should rather believe the philosophers who say that only the educated are free

The secret of happiness is freedom. The secret of freedom is courage

You have a choice. Live or die. Every breath is a choice. Every minute is a choice. To be or not to be.

Slavery is hell. Freedom is heaven. Deception is warfare. Honesty is peace.

The greatest threat to freedom, as well as the most formidable enemy of it, is a supported cause against it.

War - hard apprenticeship of freedom

The autonomy of the individual appears to be complemented and enhanced by the movement of the group; while the effectiveness of the group seems to depend on the freedom of the individual.

I stand for freedom of expression, doing what you believe in, and going after your dreams.

As long as you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold him down, so it means you cannot soar as you otherwise might.

No-one can compel me to be happy in accordance with his conception of the welfare of others, for each may seek his happiness in whatever way he sees fit, so long as he does not infringe upon the freedom of others to pursue a similar end which can be reconciled with the freedom of everyone else within a workable general law i.e. he must accord to others the same right as he enjoys himself.

Men fight for freedom, then they begin to accumulate laws to take it away from themselves.

Men are free when they are in a living homeland, not when they are straying and breaking away. Men are free when they are obeying some deep, inward voice of religious belief. Obeying from within. Men are free when they belong to a living, organic, be

The idea that men are created free and equal is both true and misleading: men are created different; they lose their social freedom and their individual autonomy in seeking to become like each other.

This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.

Those who are in the power of evil habits must conquer them as they can; and conquered they must be, or neither wisdom nor happiness can be attained: but those who are not yet subject to their influence may, by timely caution, preserve their freedom;

When we put down ideas of what life should be like, we are free to wholeheartedly say yes to our life as it is.

Freedom isn't the right to live any kind of way, it's the right to live as you'd wish.