Quotes on freedom
Who speaks of liberty while the human mind is in chains?
Wright, Francis
When the People contend for their liberty, they seldom get anything for their Victory but new Masters.
Savile, George
No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck.
Douglass, Frederick
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 usurpations.
Madison, James
Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves; and, under a just God, can not long retain it.
Lincoln, Abraham
Tyranny destroys or strengthens the individual; freedom enervates him, until he becomes no more than a puppet. Man has more chances of saving himself by hell than by paradise.
Cioran, Emile M.
It is easy to take liberty for granted, when you have never had it taken from you.
Cheney, Dick
Keep working hard and you can get anything that you want. If God gave you the talent, you should go for it. But don't think it's going to be easy. It's hard!
Aaliyah
The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding.
Brandeis, Louis D.
"Just living is not enough," said the butterfly, "one must have sunshine, freedom and a little flower."
Anderson, Hans Christian
We anarchists do not want to emancipate the people; we want the people to emancipate themselves.
Malatesta, Errico
They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
Franklin, Benjamin
Freedom is nothing else but a chance to be better.
Camus, Albert
Without freedom, no one really has a name.
Acorda, Milton
We have to call it "freedom": who'd want to die for "a lesser tyranny"?
McLaughlin, Mignon
Liberty is the possibility of doubting, of making a mistake,... of searching and experimenting,... of saying No to any authority - literary, artistic, philosophical, religious, social, and even political.
Silone, Ignazio
The contest for ages has been to rescue liberty from the grasp of executive power.
Webster, Daniel
Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally destructive.
Roosevelt, Theodore
No one is free when others are oppressed.
Unknown, Author
Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have.
Fosdick, Harry Emerson
Let freedom never perish in your hands.
Addison, Joseph
We on this continent should never forget that men first crossed the Atlantic not to find soil for their ploughs but to secure liberty for their souls.
McCracken, Robert J.
Men fight for liberty and win it with hard knocks. Their children, brought up easy, let it slip away again, poor fools. And their grandchildren are once more slaves.
Lawrence, D.H.
Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.
Shaw, George Bernard
I prefer liberty with danger to peace with slavery.
Unknown, Author
Freedom is that instant between when someone tells you to do something and when you decide how to respond.
Borenstein, Jeffrey
A nation may lose its liberties in a day and not miss them in a century.
Montesquieu, Baron de
Freedom is strangely ephemeral. It is something like breathing; one only becomes acutely aware of its importance when one is choking.
Simon, William E.
Liberty: One of Imagination's most precious possessions.
Bierce, Ambrose
The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.
Burke, Edmund
Every American deserves to live in freedom, to have his or her privacy respected and a chance to go as far as their ability and effort will take them - regardless of race, gender, ethnicity or economic circumstances.
Dodd, Christopher
Dreams are free, so free your dreams.
Alauda, Astrid