Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Wild liberty breeds iron conscience; natures with great impulses have great resources, and return from far.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Though we love goodness and not stealing, yet also we love freedom and not preaching.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

For what avail the plough or sail, or land or life, if freedom fail?

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The revelation of thought takes men out of servitude into freedom.

Lina Wertmuller

When you can use dirty words in every situation with everyone, that's a real big liberation.

Laurie Anderson

Freedon is a scary thing. Most people don't want it.

L. Ron Hubbard

A man who is willing to accept restriction and barriers and is not afraid of them is free. A man who does nothing but fight restrictions and barriers will usually be trapped.

Tertullian

You cannot parcel out freedom in pieces because freedom is all or nothing.

Leo McKern

It is easy to believe in freedom of speech for those with whom we agree.

Leo Buscaglia

As long as you are free, you are free to select and choose alternatives, provided that you are willing to accept the responsibility for being free. And after you've tried your alternatives, and they don't work as you would wish, don't blame me. Blame your choice. Try another alternative.

Leo Buscaglia

If we wish to free ourselves from enslavement, we must choose freedom and the responsibility this entails.

Karl Popper

It is wrong to ask who will rule. The ability to vote a bad government out of office is enough. That is democracy.

Karl Popper

We must plan for freedom, and not only for security, if for no other reason than only freedom can make security more secure.

Karl Popper

I personally call the type of government which can be removed without violence 'democracy,' and the other, 'tyranny.'.

Karl Popper

It is wrong to think that belief in freedom always leads to victory; we must always be prepared for it to lead to defeat. If we choose freedom, then we must be prepared to perish along with it.

Karl Popper

We do not choose political freedom because it promises us this or that. We choose it because it makes possible the only dignified form of human coexistence, the only form in which we can be fully responsible for ourselves. Whether we realize its possibilities depends on all kinds of things — and above all on ourselves.

Karl Kraus

Prussia: freedom of movement with a muzzle. Austria: an isolation cell in which screaming is allowed.

Julius Nyerere

Freedom to many means immediate betterment, as if by magic. Unless I can meet at least some of these aspirations, my support will wane and my head will roll just as surely as the tickbird follows the rhino.

Joyce Cary

The principal fact of life is the free mind.

Oswald Spengler

Formerly no one was allowed to think freely; now it is permitted, but no one is capable of it any more. Now people want to think only what they are supposed to think, and this they consider freedom.

Otto von Bismarck

Laws are like sausages. You sleep far better the less you know about how they are made.

Ossie Davis

It is necessary to stay on the march, to be on the journey, to work for peace wherever we are at all times, because the liberty we cherish, which we would share with the world, demands eternal vigilance.

June Jordan

Freedom is indivisible, and either we are working for freedom or you are working for the sake of your self-interests and I am working for mine.

June Jordan

Like a lot of Black women, I have always had to invent the power my freedom requires ...

Joyce Meyer

What's real freedom? Real freedom is being able to not have my way and still be just as happy as if I did.

Paul Twitchell

In my soul, I am free.

Katharine Graham

News is what someone wants suppressed. Everything else is advertising.

George MacDonald

A man is as free as he chooses to make himself, never an atom freer.

Lysander Spooner

All restraints upon man's natural liberty, not necessary for the simple maintenance of justice, are of the nature of slavery, and differ from each other only in degree.

Lysander Spooner

A man is no less a slave because he is allowed to choose a new master once in a term of years.

John Green

Some tourists think Amsterdam is a city of sin, but in truth it is a city of freedom. And in freedom, most people find sin.

John Ford

Whilst we strive To live most free, we're caught in our own toils.

John F. Kennedy

I want every American to be free to stand up for his rights, even if sometimes he has to sit down for them.