Freedom Quotes

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Henrik Ibsen

John F. Kennedy

Vladimir Lenin

Maximilien Robespierre

Malcolm X

Rabindranath Tagore

Bertrand Russell

And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you—ask what you can do for your country. My fellow citizens of the world: ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man.

John F. Kennedy

Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.

John F. Kennedy

Freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought.

Pope John Paul II

You should never wear your best trousers when you go out to fight for freedom and truth.

The secret of freedom lies in educating people, whereas the secret of tyranny is in keeping them ignorant.

Maximilien Robespierre

Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in the ancient Greek republics: freedom for the slave-owners.

Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure...

Bertrand Russell

Emancipation from the bondage of the soil is no freedom for the tree.

Rabindranath Tagore

You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.

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.

There are two freedoms - the false, where a man is free to do what he likes; the true, where he is free to do what he ought.

Charles Kingsley

The right to be let alone is indeed the beginning of all freedom.

William O. Douglas

I loved the feeling of freedom in running, the fresh air, the feeling that the only person I'm competing with is me.

A person is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is absolute freedom.

The essence of mathematics lies entirely in its freedom.

Whenever men take the law into their own hands, the loser is the law. And when the law loses, freedom languishes.

Robert F. Kennedy

It is very appropriate that from this cradle of the Confederacy, this very heart of the great Anglo-Saxon Southland, that today we sound the drum for freedom as have our generations of forebears before us time and again down through history. Let us rise to the call for freedom-loving blood that is in us and send our answer to the tyranny that clanks its chains upon the South. In the name of the greatest people that have ever trod this earth, I draw the line in the dust and toss the gauntlet before the feet of tyranny, and I say segregation now, segregation tomorrow and segregation forever.

Freedom: An occupied space which must be reoccupied every day.

John Ralston Saul

Here was an action that touched on raw and sensitive nerves in a community that had already undergone the trauma of two military takeovers. There was an undoubted threat to public order, welfare and freedom. I suspect the psychological pressure associated with that crisis caused the first mental blackout I had ever suffered. It contributed to a deterioration in my health that later required the insertion of a heart pacemaker.

How does the Meadow-flower its bloom unfold?
Because the lovely little flower is free
Down to its root, and, in that freedom, bold.

William Wordsworth

Time misspent in youth is sometimes all the freedom one ever has.

I believe we are on an irreversible trend towards more freedom and democracy, but that could change.

We breathed the air of freedom without knowing the language or any person.

In short, is not liberty the freedom of every person to make full use of his faculties, so long as he does not harm other persons while doing so?

Frédéric Bastiat

If you allow one single germ, one single seed of slavery to remain in the soil of America... that germ will spring up, that noxious weed will thrive, and again stifle the growth, wither the leaves, blast the flowers and poison the fair fruits of freedom.