Freedom Quotes and Sayings - Page 5



Freedom is what you do with what’s been done to you.
Jean-Paul Sartre

The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves.
William Hazlitt

Freedom is the right to live as we wish.
Epictetus

As far as your self-control goes, as far goes your freedom.
Marie von Ebner Eschenbach

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

O Liberty…! is it well
To leave the gates unguarded?
Thomas Bailey Aldrich

Four freedoms: The first is freedom of speech and expression – everywhere in the world. The second is freedom of everyone to worship God in his own way, everywhere in the world. The third is freedom from want . . . everywhere in the world. The fourth is freedom from fear . . . anywhere in the world.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

Freedom is an internal achievement rather than an external adjustment.
Powell Clayton

Freedom is a package deal – with it comes responsibilities and consequences.
Anonymous

Liberty, too, must be limited in order to be possessed.
Edmund Burke

None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but licence.
John Milton

The average man does not want to be free. He simply wants to be safe.
H. L. Mencken

Freedom is for honest people. No man who is not himself honest can be free – he is his own trap.
L. Ron Hubbard

True salvation is freedom from negativity, and above all from past and future as a psychological need.
Eckhart Tolle

Freedom is too enormous to be slipped under a closet door.
Harvey Milk

It is true that liberty is precious – so precious that it must be rationed.
Lenin

Freedom has its life in the hearts, the actions, the spirit of men and so it must be daily earned and refreshed – else like a flower cut from its life-giving roots, it will wither and die.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

Nations grown corrupt
Love bondage more than liberty;
Bondage with ease than strenuous liberty.
John Milton

All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. All these aspirations are directed toward ennobling man’s life, lifting it from the sphere of mere physical existence and leading the individual towards freedom.
Albert Einstein

Freedom’s just another word for nothing left to lose
Kris Kristoffersen

Liberty, equality – bad principles! The only true principle for humanity is justice; and justice to the feeble is protection and kindness.
Henri-Frédéric Amiel

The true value of a human being is determined primarily by the measure and the sense in which he has attained to liberation from the self.
Albert Einstein

No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms.
Thomas Jefferson

Freedom has a thousand charms to show,
That slaves, howe’er contented, never know.
William Cowper

Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.
Thomas Paine

A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.
Jim Morrison

Serenity is not freedom from the storm, but peace amid the storm.
Anonymous

I can remember when Democrats believed that it was the duty of America to fight for freedom over tyranny.
Zell Miller

When the People contend for their liberty, they seldom get anything for their Victory but new Masters.
George Savile

Freedom so often means that one isn’t needed anywhere.
Willa Sibert Cather

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