Quotes
Quotes about Freedom
Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err.
Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.
Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with keener fangs than freedom never endangered.
The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission.
I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.
Freedom is nothing else but a chance to be better.
Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves, and, under a just God, cannot long retain it.
Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost.
For if Freedom and Communism were to compete for man's allegiance in a world at peace, I would look to the future with ever increasing confidence.
The way to virtually eliminate genocide and mass murder appears to be through restricting and checking power. This means to foster democratic freedom.
The composer opens the cage door for arithmetic, the draftsman gives geometry its freedom.
To receive gifts is to lose freedom.
Humility does not mean thinking less of yourself than of other people, nor does it mean having a low opinion of your own gifts. It means freedom from thinking about yourself at all.
Hail, Columbia! happy land! Hail, ye heroes! heaven-born band! Who fought and bled in Freedom's cause.
The hippies had in mind something that they wanted, and were calling it "freedom," but in the final analysis "freedom" is a purely negative goal. It just says something is bad. Hippies weren't really offering any alternatives other than colorful short-term ones, and some of these were looking more and more like pure degeneracy. Degeneracy can be fun but it's hard to keep up as a serious lifetime occupation.
Tyranny destroys or strengthens the individual; freedom enervates him, until he becomes no more than a puppet. Man has more chances of saving himself by hell than by paradise.
We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home.
Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it.
We have believed--and we do believe now--that freedom is indivisible, that peace is indivisible, that economic prosperity is indivisible.
My mother was awarded the Serbian medal of freedom for raising 3 dysfunctional Croatian sons.
True independence and freedom can only exist in doing what's right.
Individuality is the aim of political liberty. By leaving to the citizen as much freedom of action and of being, as comports with order and the rights of others, the institutions render him truly a freeman. He is left to pursue his means of happiness in his own manner.
Unnecessary possessions are unnecessary burdens. If you have them, you have to take care of them! There is great freedom in simplicity of living. It is those who have enough but not too much who are the happiest.
Our ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide how anybody or anything outside ourselves will affect us.
What will be required to increase the quality of life and health is a coming together of technology and values, based on a scientific guiding principle that people can agree on. Securing a healthy global future requires this guiding principle to preserve freedom of spirit yet be as provable as the laws of physics. A guiding principle that addresses the meaning of life and is compelling enough to generate social cohesion and behaviors that serve the greater whole. After thirty years of investigation and research, it has become clear to me that the answer lies within the human heart. -Doc Childre.
