Famous Quotes & Sayings

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

The East knew and to the present day knows only that One is Free; the Greek and the Roman world, that some are free; the German World knows that All are free. The first political form therefore which we observe in History, is Despotism, the second Democracy and Aristocracy, the third, Monarchy.

Garrison Keillor

Freedom doesn't mean aimlessness. We can't just sleepwalk through life.... Freedom demands structure.

Frank Lloyd Wright

Freedom is from within.

Frank Lloyd Wright

A free America... means just this: individual freedom for all, rich or poor, or else this system of government we call democracy is only an expedient to enslave man to the machine and make him like it.

Herodotus

It is clear that not in one thing alone, but in many ways equality and freedom of speech are a good thing.

Heinrich Heine

Since the Exodus, freedom has always spoken with a Hebrew accent.

Heinrich Heine

Freedom is a new religion, the religion of our time.

Henry Ward Beecher

True obedience is true freedom.

Henry Ward Beecher

A bird in a cage is not half a bird.

Henry James

I have only to let myself go! So I have said all my life, yet I have never fully done it.

Henry James

People can be in general pretty well trusted, of course--with the clock of their freedom ticking as loud as it seems to do here--to keep an eye on the fleeting hour.

Helen Thomas

If we lose our title of "land of the free," what have we got?

Richard Cobden

The progress of freedom depends more upon the maintenance of peace, the spread of commerce, and the diffusion of education, than upon the labours of cabinets and foreign offices.

Toni Morrison

Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another.

Tom Stoppard

It's not the voting that's democracy; it's the counting.

Katherine Anne Porter

Freedom is a dangerous intoxicant and very few people can tolerate it in any quantity.

Katherine Anne Porter

Freedom, remember, is not the same as liberty.

Katherine Anne Porter

Eventually women will learn there's no such thing as freedom. Their husbands are just as fastened to the deck as they are. Men get onto a treadmill and never got off.

Katharine Graham

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

Marianne Williamson

God created the law of free will, and God created the law of cause and effect. And he himself will not violate the law. We need to be thinking less in terms of what God did and more in terms of whether or not we are following those laws.

Marianne Williamson

Whatever situation you're in: Send love, place it in God's hands, open your heart to everyone involved - and it will turn out miraculously.

Mark Twain

Irreverence is the champion of liberty and its only sure defense.

Ask the first man you meet what he means by defending freedom, and he'll tell you privately he means defending the standard of living.

When the Nazis came for the communists, I remained silent; I was not a communist.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

A joyful life is an individual creation that cannot be copied from a recipe.

Pearl S. Buck

Men would rather be starving and free than fed in bonds.

Peace Pilgrim

Anything you strive to hold captive will hold you captive, and if you desire freedom you must give freedom.

John W. Gardner

America's greatness has been the greatness of a free people who shared certain moral commitments. Freedom without moral commitment is aimless and promptly self-destructive.

John Steinbeck

This I would fight for: the freedom of the mind to take any direction it wishes, undirected.

John Steinbeck

This I must fight against: any idea, religion, or government which limits or destroys the individual.

John Steinbeck

The free exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world.

Martin Luther

Mankind has a free will; but it is free to milk cows and to build houses, nothing more.

Mark Thomas

Free speech is the cornerstone to every right we have.