Freedom Quotes

Today is a celebration of hope for the Iraqi people. The Iraqi people can now take control of their government and their future by creating a society that protects the rights endowed to us by our creator - life, liberty and freedom.

Jim DeMint

For all who love freedom and peace, the world without Saddam Hussein's regime is a better and safer place.

George W. Bush

I had rather hear my dog bark at a crow, than a man swear he loves me.

William Shakespeare

Those who desire to give up freedom in order to gain security will not have, nor do they deserve, either one.

Benjamin Franklin

Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.

Albert Einstein

Men like me, who merely wish to establish political freedom, will in such circumstances lose all their influence, and others will get influence who may become dangerous to all established interests whatsoever.

Lajos Kossuth

Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free.

Ronald Reagan

Our freedom can be measured by the number of things we can walk away from.

Vernon Howard

Money buys many things... The best of which is freedom.

Mary Renault

The greatest threat to freedom is the absence of criticism.

Wole Soyinka

We are not to expect to be translated from despotism to liberty in a featherbed.

Thomas Jefferson

Das freieste Lied dringt nicht durch Gitter und Draht.

Kahlil Gibran

We are all bound to the throne of the Supreme Being by a flexible chain which restrains without enslaving us. The most wonderful aspect of the universal scheme of things is the action of free beings under divine guidance.

Joseph De Maistre

Man in general, if reduced to himself, is too wicked to be free.

Joseph De Maistre

It can even come about that a created will cancels out, not perhaps the exertion, but the result of divine action; for in this sense, God himself has told us that God wishes things which do not happen because man does not wish them! Thus the rights of men are immense, and his greatest misfortune is to be unaware of them.

Joseph De Maistre

We all have the right of freedom of speech under the First Amendment. We all don't have to agree with one another on our opinions. Everyone in my circle, that I run around with, we all feel the same about God, country, integrity and character.

Luke Scott

All my life, Americans have been accustomed to thinking of theirs as 'the richest, freest' country in the world. By most measurements, it was long a contender for that honor, and - among the larger countries, if equal weight were given to wealth and indices of freedom - probably did deserve to be so described.

Conrad Black

Every general increase of freedom is accompanied by some degeneracy, attributable to the same causes as the freedom.

Charles Horton Cooley

The securest place is a prison cell, but there is no liberty

Benjamin Franklin

Peace with the Palestinians will open ports of peace all around the Mediterranean. The duty of leaders is to pursue freedom ceaselessly, even in the face of hostility, in the face of doubt and disappointment. Just imagine what could be.

Shimon Peres