Freedom Quotes and Sayings

Every tyrant who has lived has believed in freedom - for himself.
Elbert Hubbard

We have a natural right to make use of our pens as of our tongues, at our peril, risk and hazard.
Voltaire

It would be better that England should be free than that England should be compulsorily sober.
William Connor Magee

Before the organization of the Blackshirt movement free speech did not exist in this country.
Oswald Mosley

Power is so apt to be insolent and Liberty to be saucy, that they are seldom upon good Terms.
Lord Halifax

My people and I have come to an agreement which satisfies us both. They are to say what they please, and I am to do what I please.
Frederick the Great

So free we seem, so fettered fast we are!
Robert Browning

Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
Hannah Arendt

My policy is to be able to take a ticket at Victoria Station and go anywhere I damn well please.
Ernest Bevin

England may as well dam up the waters from the Nile with bulrushes as to fetter the step of Freedom, more proud and firm in this youthful land.
Lydia M. Child

Conscience, I say, not thine own, but of the other: for why is my liberty judged of another man’s conscience?
Bible: I Corinthians

I prefer liberty with danger to peace with slavery.
Anonymous

The freedom to make a fortune on the stock exchange has been made to sound more alluring than freedom of speech.
John Mortimer