Freedom Quotes and Sayings - Page 7
No one should negotiate their dreams. Dreams must be free to flee and fly high. No government, no legislature, has a right to limit your dreams. You should never agree to surrender your dreams.
Jesse Jackson
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.
James Madison
You have a choice. Live or die. Every breath is a choice. Every minute is a choice. To be or not to be.
Chuck Palahniuk
We are driven by five genetic needs: survival, love and belonging, power, freedom, and fun.
William Glasser
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.
Mark Twain
Man is condemned to be free.
Jean Paul Sartre
Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty – his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.
Aldous Huxley
Your life is the sum result of all the choices you make, both consciously and unconsciously. If you can control the process of choosing, you can take control of all aspects of your life. You can find the freedom that comes from being in charge of yourself.
Robert F. Bennet
The First Amendment is often inconvenient. But that is besides the point. Inconvenience does not absolve the government of its obligation to tolerate speech.
Justice Anthony Kennedy
We anarchists do not want to emancipate the people; we want the people to emancipate themselves.
Errico Malatesta
Every human has four endowments- self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom… The power to choose, to respond, to change.
Stephen R. Covey
History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
The highest pleasure to be got out of freedom, and having nothing to do, is labor.
Mark Twain
Human history begins with man’s act of disobedience which is at the very same time the beginning of his freedom and development of his reason.
Erich Fromm
I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death.
Patrick Henry
I want to have fun. I want to shine like the sun. I want to be the one that you want to see. I want to knit you a sweater. I want to write you a love letter. I want to make you feel better. I want to make you feel free.
Joni Mitchell
That’s free enterprise, friends: freedom to gamble, freedom to lose. And the great thing — the truly democratic thing about it — is that you don’t even have to be a player to lose.
Barbara Ehrenreich
You took my freedom away a long time ago and you can’t give it back because you haven’t got it yourself.
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep’s throat, for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act, as the destroyer of liberty. Plainly the sheep and the wolf are not agreed upon a definition of the word liberty; and precisely the same difference prevails today among human creatures.
Abraham Lincoln (Attributed)
None are so hopelessly enslaved as those who falsely believe they are free.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
In their rules there was only one clause: Do what you will.
François Rabelais
It’s often safer to be in chains than to be free.
Franz Kafka
Without general elections, without unrestrictedfreedom of press and assembly, without a free struggle of opinion, life dies out in every public institution, becomes a mere semblance of life, in which only the bureaucracy remains as the active element.
Rosa Luxemburg
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.
Frederick Douglass
Liberty of action, liberty of movement.
Jean Claude Vincent de Gournay
O Freedom, what liberties are taken in thy name!
Daniel George
Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery.
None but ourselves can free our minds.
Bob Marley
The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding.
Louis D. Brandeis
There is a wonderful mythical law of nature that the three things we crave most in life — happiness, freedom, and peace of mind — are always attained by giving them to someone else.
Peyton Conway March
I have got no further than this: Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it. Martyrdom is the test.
Samuel Johnson
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