Freedom Quotes

If there is any principle of the Constitution that more imperatively calls for attachment than any other it is the principle of free thought, not free thought for those who agree with us but freedom for the thought that we hate.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

He who believes in freedom of the will has never loved and never hated.

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's throat, for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty.

Abraham Lincoln

Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves.

Abraham Lincoln

Freedom is the last, best hope of earth.

Abraham Lincoln

Do not destroy that immortal emblem of humanity, the Declaration of Independence.

Abraham Lincoln

I was ecstatic they re-named 'French Fries' as 'Freedom Fries'. Grown men and women in positions of power in the U.S. government showing themselves as idiots.

Johnny Depp

Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law.

Aleister Crowley

Rebellion to tyranny is obedience to God.

Thomas Jefferson

You can't put democracy and freedom back into a box.

George W. Bush

In the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.

Bernard Baruch

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

Leo McKern

The greatest blessing of our democracy is freedom. But in the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.

Bernard Baruch

Every friend of freedom must be as revolted as I am by the prospect of turning the United States into an armed camp, by the vision of jails filled with casual drug users and of an army of enforcers empowered to invade the liberty of citizens on slight evidence.

Milton Friedman

I think the American people have become more reliant upon government and less reliant upon themselves and that they now tend to put security ahead of freedom, but I think freedom is the most important aspect of our lives.

Lyn Nofziger

If [God] send me no husband, for the which blessing I am at him upon my knees every morning and evening ...

William Shakespeare

I suffered evils, but without allowing them to rob me of the freedom to expand.

Gordon Parks

Now, do I think there has to be shared sacrifice among other nations in the world who want a stable and secure world? Absolutely, there has to be. But I don't think that America can ever abdicate its leadership role in the world because of who we are and where we've come from. We are the symbol for the world for freedom and liberty.

Chris Christie

Men are freest when they are most unconscious of freedom. The shout is a rattling of chains, always was.

David Herbert Lawrence

Human beings want to be free and however long they may agree to stay locked up, to stay oppressed, there will come a time when they say 'That's it.' Suddenly they find themselves doing something that they never would have thought they would be doing, simply because of the human instinct that makes them turn their face towards freedom.

Aung San Suu Kyi