Quotes about freedom

"When a person places the proper value on freedom, there is nothing under the sun that he will not do to acquire that freedom. Whenever you hear a man saying he wants freedom, but in the next breath he is going to tell you what he won't do to get it, or what he doesn't believe in doing in order to get it, he doesn't believe in freedom. A man who believes in freedom will do anything under the sun to acquire... or preserve his freedom."

Malcolm X on freedom   

"You don't have to be a man to fight for freedom. All you have to do is to be an intelligent human being."

Malcolm X on freedom   

"I believe in a religion that believes in freedom. Any time I have to accept a religion that won't let me fight a battle for my people, I say to hell with that religion."

Malcolm X on freedom   

"Let freedom reign. The sun never set on so glorious a human achievement."

Mandela, Nelson on freedom   

"There are two good things in life -- freedom of thought and freedom of action."

Maugham, W. Somerset on freedom   

"If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom: and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that, too."

Maugham, W. Somerset on freedom
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"Any nation that thinks more of its ease and comfort than its freedom will soon lose its freedom; and the ironical thing about it is that it will lose its ease and comfort too."

Maugham, W. Somerset on freedom   

"Freedom is man's capacity to take a hand in his own development. It is our capacity to mold ourselves."

May, Rollo on freedom
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"It requires greater courage to preserve inner freedom, to move on in one's inward journey into new realms, than to stand defiantly for outer freedom. It is often easier to play the martyr, as it is to be rash in battle."

May, Rollo on freedom   

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

Mckern, Leo on freedom   

"We must be willing to pay a price for freedom."

Mencken, H. L. on freedom   

"The only freedom which deserves the name is that of pursuing our own good, in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs, or impede their efforts to obtain it."

Mill, John Stuart on freedom   

"None can love freedom heartily, but good men... the rest love not freedom, but license."

Milton, John on freedom   

"Countries are well cultivated, not as they are fertile, but as they are free."

Montesquieu, Charles De on freedom   

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"There's something contagious about demanding freedom."

Morgan, Robin on freedom   

"Freedom! Equality! Brotherhood!"

Motto, French Revolution on freedom   

"How is freedom measured, in individuals as in nations? By the resistance which has to be overcome, by the effort it costs to stay aloft. One would have to seek the highest type of free man where the greatest resistance is constantly being overcome: five steps from tyranny, near the threshold of the danger of servitude."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on freedom   

"Yet we can maintain a free society only if we recognize that in a free society no one can win all the time. No one can have his own way all the time, and no one is right all the time."

Nixon, Richard M. on freedom   

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

Orr, Lord Boyd on freedom   

"Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows."

Orwell, George on freedom
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"I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt."

Orwell, George on freedom   

"We fight not to enslave, but to set a country free, and to make room upon the earth for honest men to live in."

Paine, Thomas on freedom   

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"Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it."

Paine, Thomas on freedom   

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

Pascal, Blaise on freedom
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"Freedom is the sure possession of those alone who have the courage to defend it."

Pericles on freedom
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"Is any man free except the one who can pass his life as he pleases?"

Persius on freedom   

"The sovereignty of one's self over one's self is called Liberty."

Pike, Albert on freedom   

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

Pound, Ezra on freedom
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"Freedom is an internal achievement rather than an external adjustment."

Powell, Adam Clayton on freedom
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"The saving man becomes the free man."

Proverb, Chinese on freedom
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"I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and democracy -- but that could change."

Quayle, Dan on freedom   

"Freedom prospers when religion is vibrant and the rule of law under God is acknowledged."

Reagan, Ronald on freedom
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"It is for each of us freely to choose whom we shall serve, and find in that obedience our freedom."

Richards, Mary Caroline on freedom   

"We, and all others who believe in freedom as deeply as we do, would rather die on our feet than live on our knees."

Roosevelt, Franklin D. on freedom
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"True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made."

Roosevelt, Franklin D. on freedom
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"We look forward to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms. The first is freedom of speech and expression. The second is freedom of every person to worship God in his own way. The third is freedom from want. The fourth is freedom from fear."

Roosevelt, Franklin D. on freedom   

"Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds."

Roosevelt, Franklin D. on freedom   

"The English think they are free. They are free only during the election of members of parliament."

Rousseau, Jean Jacques on freedom   

"Man is born free, yet he is everywhere in chains."

Rousseau, Jean Jacques on freedom
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"Free people, remember this maxim: We may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lost."

Rousseau, Jean Jacques on freedom