Freedom Quotes

"Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom."

"The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion."

"If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter."

"I would like to be remembered as a person who wanted to be free... so other people would be also free."

"Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest."

"Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed."

"It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere."

"It does not take a majority to prevail... but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men."

"We will not waver; we will not tire; we will not falter, and we will not fail. Peace and Freedom will prevail."

"Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same."

"A hero is someone who understands the responsibility that comes with his freedom."

"Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear."

"Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth."

"For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others."

"Freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought."

"None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free."

"Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility. For the person who is unwilling to grow up, the person who does not want to carry his own weight, this is a frightening prospect."

"Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity."

"Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery, none but ourselves can free our minds!"

"Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it."

"Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you."

"Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country."

"Freedom is the oxygen of the soul."

"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."

"It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them."

"Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally destructive."

"If you want total security, go to prison. There you're fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking... is freedom."

"Freedom is something that dies unless it's used."

"I hope for nothing. I fear nothing. I am free."

"People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use."