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Quotes about Freedom


This hand, to tyrants ever sworn the foe, For freedom only deals the deadly blow; Then sheathes in calm repose the vengeful blade, For gentle peace in freedom's hallowed shade.

John Quincy Adams

We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

The February born will find Sincerity and peace of mind; Freedom from passion and from care, If they the Pearl (also green Amethyst) will wear.

Unattributed Author

Freedom is never letting your fears stop you from following your heart.

Susie Switzer

To be what no one ever was, to be what everyone has been: Freedom is the mean of those extremes that fence all effort in.

Mark Van Doren

Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus.

Aneurin Bevan

In the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.

Bernard M. Baruch

Perfect freedom is reserved for the man who lives by his own work and in that work does what he wants to do.

Robin G. Collingwood

I gave my life for freedom --this I know: For those who bade me fight had told me so.

W. N. Ewer

We who officially value freedom of speech above life itself seem to have nothing to talk about but the weather.

Barbara Ehrenreich

Freedom all solace to man gives: He lives at ease that freely lives.

John Barbour

Freedom Know this, that every man is free To choose his life and what he'll be. For this eternal truth is given, God will force no man to heaven. He'll call, persuade, direct aright, Bless with wisdom, love, and light; In nameless ways be good and kind, But never force the human mind.

William C. Clegg

The progress of freedom depends more upon the maintenance of peace, the spread of commerce, and the diffusion of education, than upon the labors of cabinets and foreign offices.

Richard Cobden

In the light of his vision he has found his freedom: his thoughts are peace, his words are peace and his work is peace.

Ram Dhammapada

There is nothing more wonderful than freedom of speech.

Ilya G. Ehrenburg

Freedom is just chaos with better lighting.

Alan Dean Foster

If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.

Noam Chomsky

No man has received from nature the right to give orders to others. Freedom is a gift from heaven, and every individual of the same species has the right to enjoy it as soon as he is in enjoyment of his reason.

Denis Diderot

The freedom of the press works in such a way that there is not much freedom from it.

Grace (patricia) Kelly

The cause of freedom is the cause of God.

Samuel Bowles

When one makes a Revolution, one cannot mark time; one must always go forward—or go back. He who now talks about the "freedom of the press" goes backward, and halts our headlong course towards Socialism.

Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

A nation which makes the final sacrifice for life and freedom does not get beaten.

Kemal Atatürk

Politics is the art of achieving the maximum amount of freedom for individuals that is consistent with the maintenance of social order.

Barry Goldwater

Freedom is that instant between when someone tells you to do something and when you decide how to respond.

Dr. Jeffrey Borenstein

The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitudes.

Victor Frankl

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