Freedom Quotes

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Maximilien Robespierre

Vladimir Lenin

Malcolm X

John F. Kennedy

Rabindranath Tagore

Henrik Ibsen

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.

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

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

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

Bertrand Russell

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

Maximilien Robespierre

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

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.

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

Pope John Paul II

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

John F. Kennedy

The function of the law is not to provide justice or to preserve freedom. The function of the law is to keep those who hold power, in power.

Ultimately, America's answer to the intolerant man is diversity, the very diversity which our heritage of religious freedom has inspired.

Robert F. Kennedy

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

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

As a poet and writer, I deeply love and I deeply hate words. I love the infinite evidence and change and requirements and possibilities of language; every human use of words that is joyful, or honest or new, because experience is new... But as a Black poet and writer, I hate words that cancel my name and my history and the freedom of my future: I hate the words that condemn and refuse the language of my people in America.

It seems strangely difficult for some to realize that here in Asia is where the Communist conspirators have elected to make their play for global conquest, and that we have joined the issue thus raised on the battlefield; that here we fight Europe's war with arms while the diplomats there still fight it with words; that if we lose the war to communism in Asia the fall of Europe is inevitable, win it and Europe most probably would avoid war and yet preserve freedom. As you pointed out, we must win. There is no substitute for victory.

Douglas MacArthur

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

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

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

William O. Douglas

The real movement of history, it turns out, is fueled not by matter but by spirit, by the will to freedom.

Gertrude Himmelfarb

You all say you need us. Well, maybe you do, but not to help, with the millions of bubbly new minds about to be unleashed, with all the cities coming awake at last. Together, you're more than enough to change the world without us. So from now on, David and I are here to stand in your way. You see, freedom has a way of destroying things.

Scott Westerfeld

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

John Ralston Saul

THESE are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives every thing its value. Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods; and it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as FREEDOM should not be highly rated.

It isn't until you begin to fight in your own cause that you (a) become really committed to winning, and (b) become a genuine ally of other people struggling for their freedom.

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