Freedom Quotes

Freedom prospers when religion is vibrant and the rule of law under God is acknowledged.
Ronald Reagan

Religion, God, Law

For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.
Nelson Mandela

Live, Free, Others

If you want total security, go to prison. There you're fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking... is freedom.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

Medical, Care, Security

I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do. I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.
Robert A. Heinlein

Alone, Everything, Find

Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err.
Mahatma Gandhi

The desire of gold is not for gold. It is for the means of freedom and benefit.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Means, Desire, Gold

Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better.
Albert Camus

Nothing, Chance

People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.
Soren Kierkegaard

Thought, Speech, Seldom

You have freedom when you're easy in your harness.
Robert Frost

Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
Jean-Paul Sartre

The only sure bulwark of continuing liberty is a government strong enough to protect the interests of the people, and a people strong enough and well enough informed to maintain its sovereign control over the goverment.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

Government, Strong, Control

The truth is I love being alive. And I love feeling free. So if I can't have those things then I feel like a caged animal and I'd rather not be in a cage. I'd rather be dead. And it's real simple. And I think it's not that uncommon.
Angelina Jolie

Love, Truth, Simple

We must be willing to pay a price for freedom.
H. L. Mencken

Pay, Willing, Price

Liberty cannot be preserved without general knowledge among the people.
John Adams

Knowledge, Liberty, Cannot

Perfect freedom is as necessary to the health and vigor of commerce as it is to the health and vigor of citizenship.
Patrick Henry

Health, Perfect, Necessary

Real freedom is having nothing. I was freer when I didn't have a cent.
Mike Tyson

Nothing, Real, Cent

Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.
Epictetus

Live, Nothing, Wish

For in the end, freedom is a personal and lonely battle; and one faces down fears of today so that those of tomorrow might be engaged.
Alice Walker

Today, Lonely, End

The only freedom which deserves the name is that of pursuing our own good, in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs, or impede their efforts to obtain it.
John Stuart Mill

Good, Long, Others

Freedom is a man's natural power of doing what he pleases, so far as he is not prevented by force or law.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Power, Law, Far

I hope for nothing. I fear nothing. I am free.
Nikos Kazantzakis

Hope, Fear, Nothing

As long as men are free to ask what they must, free to say what they think, free to think what they will, freedom can never be lost and science can never regress.
Marcel Proust

Men, Science, Long

Freedom and justice cannot be parceled out in pieces to suit political convenience. I don't believe you can stand for freedom for one group of people and deny it to others.
Coretta Scott King

Justice, Political, Cannot

Freedom is the sure possession of those alone who have the courage to defend it.
Pericles

Courage, Alone, Sure

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

True, Two, Free

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