Quotes about freedom

"Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err. It passes my comprehension how human beings, be they ever so experienced and able, can delight in depriving other human beings of that precious right."

Gandhi, Mahatma on freedom
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"The moment the slave resolves that he will no longer be a slave. His fetters fall... freedom and slavery are mental states."

Gandhi, Mahatma on freedom
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"Liberty is not merely a privilege to be conferred; it is a habit to be acquired."

George, David Lloyd on freedom   

"Liberty has restraints but no frontiers."

George, David Lloyd on freedom   

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

Gibran, Kahlil on freedom
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"There should be a sympathy with freedom, a desire to give it scope, founded not upon visionary ideas, but upon the long experience of many generations within the shores of this happy isle, that in freedom you lay the firmest foundations both of loyalty and order."

Gladstone, William E. on freedom   

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"Freedom consists not in refusing to recognize anything above us, but in respecting something which is above us; for by respecting it, we raise ourselves to it, and, by our very acknowledgment, prove that we bear within ourselves what is higher, and are worthy to be on a level with it"

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on freedom
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"Only law can give us freedom."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on freedom
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"Yes! To this thought I hold with firm persistence; The last result of wisdom stamps it true; He only earns his freedom and existence Who daily conquers them anew."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on freedom   

"Freedom is fragile and must be protected. To sacrifice it, even as a temporary measure, is to betray it."

Greer, Germaine on freedom   

"When the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free and was never free again."

Hamilton, Edith on freedom
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"We must determine whether we really want freedom -- whether we are willing to dare the perils of... rebirth... For we never take a step forward without surrendering something that we may have held dear, without dying to that which has been."

Hanson, Virginia on freedom   

"The greatest Glory of a free-born People, Is to transmit that Freedom to their Children."

Havard, William on freedom
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"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."

Hegel, Georg on freedom   

"The history of the world is none other than the progress of the consciousness of freedom."

Hegel, Georg on freedom   

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"I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul."

Henley, William Ernest on freedom
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"Perfect freedom is as necessary to the health and vigor of commerce as it is to the health and vigor of citizenship."

Henry, Patrick on freedom   

"Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty."

Herbert, Frank on freedom   

"Freedom is the opportunity to make decisions..."

Hildebrand, Kenneth on freedom   

"Only very slowly and late have men come to realize that unless freedom is universal it is only extended privilege."

Hill, Christopher on freedom   

"The basic test of freedom is perhaps less in what we are free to do than in what we are free not to do."

Hoffer, Eric on freedom   

"There can be no real freedom without the freedom to fail."

Hoffer, Eric on freedom
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"Freedom is the open window through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit and human dignity."

Hoover, Herbert Clark on freedom
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"We are free to yield to truth."

Horace on freedom   

"Who then is free? The one who wisely is lord of themselves, who neither poverty, death or captivity terrify, who is strong to resist his appetites and shun honors, and is complete in themselves smooth and round like a globe."

Horace on freedom
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"Who then is free? The wise man who can govern himself."

Horace on freedom   

"Freedom begins as we become conscious of it."

Howard, Vernon on freedom   

"We clearly realize that freedom's inner kingdom cannot be touched by exterior attacks."

Howard, Vernon on freedom   

"American freedom consists largely in talking nonsense."

Howe, Edgar Watson on freedom   

"Freedom is a condition of mind, and the best way to secure it is to breed it."

Hubbard, Elbert on freedom
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"When we lose the right to be different, we lose the privilege to be free."

Hughes, Charles Evans on freedom
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"Liberation is not deliverance."

Hugo, Victor on freedom   

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"Freedom is but the possibility of a various and indefinite activity; while government, or the exercise of dominion, is a single, yet real activity. The longing for freedom, therefore, is at first only too frequently suggested by the deep-felt consciousness of its absence."

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von on freedom   

"Freedom is the most contagious virus known to man."

Humphrey, Hubert H. on freedom
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"A forest bird never wants a cage."

Ibsen, Henrik on freedom   

"Only necessity understood, and bondage to the highest is identical with true freedom."

James, William on freedom   

"The will of the people is the only legitimate foundation of any government, and to protect its free expression should be our first object."

Jefferson, Thomas on freedom
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"If we catch a glimpse of freedom, we wish to possess it; if we catch a glimpse of death, we want nothing to do with it. One we cannot have, the other we cannot avoid."

Johnson, Jeremy P. on freedom   

"The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom."

Johnson, Lady Bird on freedom   

"All theory is against freedom of the will; all experience for it."

Johnson, Samuel on freedom