Quotes about freedom

"A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue."

Rousseau, Jean Jacques on freedom   

"Freedom is only granted us that obedience may be more perfect."

Ruskin, John on freedom   

"Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure."

Russell, Bertrand on freedom   

"Women, like men, ought to have their youth so glutted with freedom they hate the very idea of freedom."

Sackville-West, Vita on freedom   

"There is no liberation without labor... and there is no freedom which is free."

Sahib, The Siri Singh on freedom
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"I know but one freedom and that is the freedom of the mind."

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De on freedom
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"It is quite possible for someone to choose incorrectly or to judge badly; but freedom must allow such mistakes."

Sang Kyu Shin on freedom   

"A man is morally free when, in full possession of his living humanity, he judges the world, and judges other men, with uncompromising sincerity."

Santayana, George on freedom
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"Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you."

Sartre, Jean-Paul on freedom
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"Where there is much freedom there is much error."

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von on freedom   

"Freedom exists only with power."

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von on freedom   

"There's only one free person in this society, and he is white and male."

Scott, Hazel on freedom   

"He who is brave is free."

Seneca on freedom
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"Freedom is not being a slave to any circumstance, to any constraint, to any chance; it means compelling Fortune to enter the lists on equal terms."

Seneca on freedom   

"The bigger the information media, the less courage and freedom they allow. Bigness means weakness."

Sevareid, Eric on freedom   

"They want to be free and they do not know how to be just."

Sieyes, Abbe on freedom   

"By the will art thou lost, by the will art thou found, by the will art thou free, captive, and bound."

Silesius, Angelus on freedom   

"Only that thing is free which exists by the necessities of its own nature, and is determined in its actions by itself alone."

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de) on freedom   

"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."

Stevenson, Adlai E. on freedom   

"We have confused the free with the free and easy."

Stevenson, Adlai E. on freedom   

"A hungry man is not a free man."

Stevenson, Adlai E. on freedom   

"Every emancipation has in it the seeds of a new slavery, and every truth easily becomes a lie."

Stone, I. F. on freedom   

"Bondage is... subjection to external influences and internal negative thoughts and attitudes."

Stone, W. Clement on freedom   

"We gain freedom when we have paid the full price..."

Tagore, Rabindranath on freedom
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"Emancipation from the bondage of the soil is no freedom for the tree."

Tagore, Rabindranath on freedom
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"We are all of us the worse for too much liberty."

Terence on freedom   

"Freedom is knowing who you really are."

Thomson, Linda on freedom   

"The law will never make men free, it is men that have to make the law free."

Thoreau, Henry David on freedom
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"The secret of freedom, courage."

Thucydides on freedom
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"This is America. You can do anything here."

Turner, Robert E. on freedom   

"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."

Twain, Mark on freedom
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"The higher one climbs on the spiritual ladder, the more they will grant others their own freedom, and give less interference to another's state of consciousness."

Twitchell, Paul on freedom   

"The grass is always greener where the fence isn't."

Unknown, Source on freedom   

"The foolish and the uneducated have little use for freedom."

Unknown, Source on freedom   

"It is my right to be uncommon. For I do not choose to be a common man, If I can, I seek opportunity. I do not wish to be a kept citizen, humbled and dulled by having the government look after me. I choose to take the calculated risk, to dream, to build, to fail or succeed. I choose not to barter incentive for a dole, I prefer the challenges of life to a guaranteed existence, the thrill of fulfillment to the state calm of Utopia. I will not trade my freedom for beneficence nor my dignity for a handout."

Unknown, Source on freedom   

"Free will is not the liberty to do whatever one likes, but the power of doing whatever one sees ought to be done, even in the very face of otherwise overwhelming impulse. There lies freedom, indeed."

Unknown, Source on freedom   

"A slave is a free man if he is content with his lot; a free man is a slave if he seeks more than that."

Unknown, Source on freedom   

"Freedom also includes the right to mismanage your own affairs."

Unknown, Source on freedom
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"It is quite impossible to guarantee world peace. But is should be possible to guarantee world freedom."

Unknown, Source on freedom   

"Liberty is the right to choose, freedom is the result of that choice."

Unknown, Source on freedom