Freedom Quotes

When we let freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of that old Negro spiritual, Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!

Martin Luther King, Jr.

You can muffle the drum, and you can loosen the strings of the lyre, but who shall command the skylark not to sing?

Kahlil Gibran

The more internal freedom you achieve, the more you want: it is more fun to be happy than sad, more enjoyable to choose your own emotions than to have them inflicted on you by mechanical glandular processes, more pleasurable to solve your problems than to be stuck with them forever.

Robert Wilson

When we lose the right to be different, we lose the privilege to be free.

Charles Hughes

Governing sense, mind and intellect, intent on liberation, free from desire, fear and anger, the sage is forever free.

Bhagavad Gita

It will free man from his remaining chains, the chains of gravity which still tie him to this planet. It will open to him the gates of heaven.

Wernher Von Braun

It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have everything one wants.

Blaise Pascal

China has to go along with world trends. That's democracy, liberty, individual freedom. China sooner or later has to go that way. It cannot go backward.

Dalai Lama

He only earns his freedom and his life Who takes them every day by storm.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.

Mark Twain

The secret of freedom, courage.

Thucydides

Freedom is knowing who you really are.

Linda Thomson

If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.

George Washington

Liberty will not descend to a people; a people must raise themselves to liberty; it is a blessing that must be earned before it can be enjoyed.

Charles Caleb Colton

Tyrants have not yet discovered any chains that can fetter the mind.

Charles Caleb Colton

We gain freedom when we have paid the full price.

Rabindranath Tagore

Responsibility is the price of freedom.

Elbert Hubbard

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

Karl Popper

Freedom is not an ideal, it is not even a protection, if it means nothing more than freedom to stagnate, to live without dreams, to have no greater aim than a second car and another television set.

Adlai Stevenson

A hungry man is not a free man.

Adlai Stevenson