Freedom Quotes

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Henrik Ibsen

Pope John Paul II

John F. Kennedy

Vladimir Lenin

Malcolm X

Maximilien Robespierre

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

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

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

John F. Kennedy

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

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.

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

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

Rabindranath Tagore

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

Maximilien Robespierre

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

Pope John Paul II

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

Bertrand Russell

Private property was the original source of freedom. It still is its main bulwark.

Walter Lippmann

The greatest blessing of our democracy is freedom. But in the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.

We don't appreciate what we have until it's gone. Freedom is like that. It's like air. When you have it, you don't notice it.

Institutions - government, churches, industries, and the like - have properly no other function than to contribute to human freedom; and in so far as they fail, on the whole, to perform this function, they are wrong and need reconstruction.

Freedom is poetry, taking liberties with words, breaking the rules of normal speech, violating common sense. Freedom is violence.

Norman O. Brown

Fortunately, somewhere between chance and mystery lies imagination, the only thing that protects our freedom, despite the fact that people keep trying to reduce it or kill it off altogether.

The fundamental sense of freedom is freedom from chains, from imprisonment, from enslavement by others. The rest is extension of this sense, or else metaphor.

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

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

Now one of the most essential branches of English liberty is the freedom of one's house. A man's house is his castle!

Freedom is hammered out on the anvil of discussion, dissent, and debate.

Hubert Humphrey

Remember the refrain: We always build on the past; the past always tries to stop us. Freedom is about stopping the past, but we have lost that ideal.

Lawrence Lessig

Freedom is always and exclusively freedom for the one who thinks differently.

America's greatest contribution to the world is its concept of democracy, its concept of freedom, freedom of action, freedom of speech, and freedom of thought.

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