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“Laws alone can not secure freedom of expression; in order that every man present his views without penalty there must be spirit of tolerance in the entire population.”

— Albert Einstein

“There is no such thing as part freedom.”

— Nelson Mandela

“I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.”

— John Adams

“Let freedom reign. The sun never set on so glorious a human achievement.”

— Nelson Mandela

“As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.”

— Abraham Lincoln

“Let me be a free man - free to travel, free to stop, free to work.”

— Chief Joseph

“America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves. ”

— Abraham Lincoln

“Better to die fighting for freedom then be a prisoner all the days of your life.”

— Bob Marley

“I am involved in a freedom ride protesting the loss of the minority rights belonging to the few remaining earthbound stars. All we demanded was our right to twinkle. ”

— Marilyn Monroe

“Freedom from the desire for an answer is essential to the understanding of a problem.”

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

“Seek freedom and become captive of your desires, seek discipline and find your liberty.”

— Frank Herbert

“I believe that God has planted in every heart the desire to live in freedom. ”

— George Washington Bush

“I've seen too much hate to want to hate, myself, and every time I see it, I say to myself, hate is too great a burden to bear. Somehow we must be able to stand up against our most bitter opponents and say: We shall match your capacity to inflict suffering by our capacity to endure suffering. We will meet your physical force with soul force. Do to us what you will and we will still love you.... But be assured that we'll wear you down by our capacity to suffer, and one day we will win our freedom. We will not only win freedom for ourselves; we will appeal to your heart and conscience that we will win you in the process, and our victory will be a double victory.”

— Martin Luther King

“Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.”

— Martin Luther King

“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

“Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err. It passes my comprehension how human beings, be they ever so experienced and able, can delight in depriving other human beings of that precious right.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

“I believe firmly that in making ethical decisions, man has the prerogative of true freedom of choice.”

— Corliss Lamont

“True freedom is the capacity for acting according to one's true character, to be altogether one's self, to be self-determined and not subject to outside coercion. ”

— Corliss Lamont

“Communists have always played an active role in the fight by colonial countries for their freedom, because the short-term objects of Communism would always correspond with the long-term objects of freedom movements.”

— Nelson Mandela

“Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.”

— Thomas Jefferson

“True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.”

— Franklin Roosevelt

“I know but one freedom, and that is the freedom of the mind.”

— Antoine de Saint Exupery

“Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.”

— Sigmund Freud

“Analysis does not set out to make pathological reactions impossible, but to give the patient's ego freedom to decide one way or another.”

— Sigmund Freud

“No people in history have ever survived who thought they could protect their freedom by making themselves inoffensive to their enemies.”

— Dean Acheson

“In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free - honorable alike in what we give and what we preserve. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope of earth. ”

— Abraham Lincoln

“Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity”

— Karl Marx

“The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency.”

— Aldous Huxley

“A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the will's freedom after it.”

— Aldous Huxley

“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

freedom quotes

P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; }Do you know who said: “Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth”? Browse through our free collection of freedom quotes and learn the answer.

Do you know who said: “Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth”? Browse through our free collection of freedom quotes and learn the answer.