Freedom Quotes

Judgment traps you within the limitations of your comparisons. It inhibits freedom.

Willie Stargell

Wherever on this planet ideals of personal freedom and dignity apply, there you will find the cultural inheritance of England.

Karel Capek

A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.

Ezra Pound

True freedom requires the rule of law and justice, and a judicial system in which the rights of some are not secured by the denial of rights to others.

Jonathan Sacks

The greatest purveyor of violence in the world : My own Government, I can not be Silent.

Martin Luther King Jr.

More than anything else, let me be clear - we need to be willing to fight for freedom, and free markets, and traditional moral values. That's what the American people want to see this movement and this party return to.

Mike Pence

I've never let producers tell me what to do. Even when I was making television, I always did what I wanted to do, and if I couldn't, I didn't do it. It was a freedom that, these days, young directors starting out don't have.

Michael Haneke

Resist this war on God, freedom of religion and freedom of speech.

Benjamin Carson

I fear you do not fully comprehend the danger of abridging the liberties of the people. Nothing but the sternest necessity can ever justify it. A government had better go to the extreme of toleration, than to do aught that could be construed into an interference with, or to jeopardize in any degree, the common rights of its citizens.

Abraham Lincoln

We are participating in the orderly transfer of administrative authority by the direction of the people. And this is the simple magic which makes a commonplace routine a near miracle to many of the world

Ronald Reagan, Gubernatorial Ina

Bush is morally a universalist. For instance, he says the freedom is good, the same thing is good, all over the world. So in that sense he's a universalist.

Peter Singer

Someday, the realm of liberty and justice will encompass the planet. Freedom is not just the birthright of the few, it is the God-given right of all His children, in every country. It won't come by conquest. It will come, because freedom is right and freedom works. It will come, because cooperation and good will among free people will carry the day.

Ronald Reagan

Freedom all solace to man gives: He lives at ease that freely lives.

John Barbour

I think there's some connection between absolute discipline and absolute freedom.

Alan Rickman

Humanism: an exaltation of freedom, but one limited by our need to exercise it as an integral part of nature and society.

John Ralston Saul

Freedom is the opportunity to make decisions...

Kenneth Hildebrand

If people have to choose between freedom and sandwiches, they will take sandwiches.

Lord Boyd Orr

A free press can of course be good or bad, but, most certainly, without freedom it will never be anything but bad. . . . Freedom is nothing else but a chance to be better, whereas enslavement is a certainty of the worse.

Albert Camus

Without economic development, any potential for political openness and freedom will be questionable.

Jose Maria Aznar

Freedom means the opportunity to be what we never thought we would be.

Daniel J. Boorstin