Freedom Quotes and Sayings - Page 4



Freedom means choosing your burden.
Hephzibah Menuhin

Only the educated are free.
Epictetus

Freedom is like taking a bath — you have to keep doing it every day!
Florynce Kennedy

What then is freedom ? The power to live as one wishes.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

We have enjoyed so much freedom for so long that we are perhaps in danger of forgetting how much blood it cost to establish the Bill of Rights.
Felix Frankfurter

You have freedom when you’re easy in your harness.
Robert Frost

The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.
Edmund Burke

History does not teach fatalism. There are moments when the will of a handful of free men breaks through determinism and opens up new roads.
Charles de Gaulle

I cannot and will not give any undertaking at a time when I, and you, the people, are not free. Your freedom and mine cannot be separated.
Nelson Mandela

Let freedom reign. The sun never set on so glorious a human achievement.
Nelson Mandela

Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want rain without thunder and lightning.
Frederick Douglass

Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty
Frank Herbert

We feel free when we escape – even if it be but from the frying pan into the fire.
Eric Hoffer

There can be no friendship when there is no freedom; Friendship loves the free air, and will not be fenced up in straight and narrow enclosures.
William Penn

Freedom lies in being bold.
Robert Frost

Freedom is about authority. Freedom is about the willingness of every single human being to cede to lawful authority a great deal of discretion about what you do and how you do it.
Rudy Giuliani

He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from opposition; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach himself.
Thomas Paine

Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom: it is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves.
William Pitt

You can’t separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.
Malcolm X

You cannot build character and courage by taking away a man’s initiative and independence.
Abraham Lincoln

We have to call it “freedom”: who’d want to die for “a lesser tyranny”?
Mignon McLaughlin

You have the freedom to choose your actions, you don’t have the freedom to choose the consequences of your actions
Anonymous

The sound of tireless voices is the price we pay for the right to hear the music of our own opinions.
Adlai Stevenson

You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man’s freedom. You can only be free if I am free.
Clarence Darrow

We are free, truly free, when we don’t need to rent our arms to anybody in order to be able to lift a piece of bread to our mouths.
Ricardo Flores Magon

Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired, but by controlling the desire.
Epictetus

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

Freedom is the will to be responsible to ourselves.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.
Sigmund Freud

Most people want security in this world, not liberty.
H.L. Mencken

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