Free Famous Quotes – More Sayings On Freedom
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Here is a collection of freedom and free famous quotes from various authors, celebrities, famous persons, and other sources compiled by allinspiration.com for you to read and enjoy.
“Freedom is not the right to do what we want, but what we ought. Let us have faith that right makes might and in that faith let us; to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it. ”
– 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
“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
“Freedom rings where opinions clash.”
– Adlai E. Stevenson
“Freedom is nothing else but a chance to be better.”
– Albert Camus
“The only conception of freedom I can have is that of the prisoner or the individual in the midst of the State. The only one I know is freedom of thought and action.”
– Albert Camus
“In America the majority raises formidable barriers around the liberty of opinion; within these barriers an author may write what he pleases, but woe to him if he goes beyond them.”
– Alexis de Tocqueville
“For in the end, freedom is a personal and lonely battle; and one faces down fears of today so that those of tomorrow might be engaged.”
– Alice Walker
“The truth is I love being alive. And I love feeling free. So if I can’t have those things then I feel like a caged animal and I’d rather not be in a cage. I’d rather be dead. And it’s real simple. And I think it’s not that uncommon.”
– Angelina Jolie
“Children should have enough freedom to be themselves – once they’ve learned the rules.”
– Anna Quindlen
“I know but one freedom and that is the freedom of the mind.”
– Antoine de Saint-Exupery
“As human beings, we are endowed with freedom of choice, and we cannot shuffle off our responsibility upon the shoulders of God or nature. We must shoulder it ourselves. It is our responsibility.”
– Arnold J. Toynbee
“Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.”
– Baruch Spinoza
“Only that thing is free which exists by the necessities of its own nature, and is determined in its actions by itself alone.”
– Benedict de Spinoza
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.”
– Benjamin Franklin
“The greatest blessing of our democracy is freedom. But in the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.”
– Bernard M. Baruch
“In the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.”
– Bernard M. Baruch
“Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure.”
– Bertrand Russell
“Freedom is contagious. That’s why despots fear it so much.”
– Bill Owens
“It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have everything one wants.”
– Blaise Pascal
“Better to die fighting for freedom then be a prisoner all the days of your life.”
– Bob Marley
“Freedom of speech includes the freedom to offend people.”
– Brad Thor
“The secret of happiness is freedom, the secret of freedom is courage.”
– Carrie Jones
“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
“When we lose the right to be different, we lose the privilege to be free.”
– Charles Evans Hughes
“There are two freedoms – the false, where a man is free to do what he likes; the true, where he is free to do what he ought.”
– Charles Kingsley
“I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.”
– Charlotte Brontë
“The saving man becomes the free man.”
– Chinese Proverb
“You can protect your liberties in this world only by protecting the other man’s freedom. You can be free only if I am free.”
– Clarence S. Darrow
“The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.”
– Coco Chanel
“Freedom and justice cannot be parceled out in pieces to suit political convenience. I don’t believe you can stand for freedom for one group of people and deny it to others.”
– Coretta Scott King
“‘Freedom from fear’ could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights.”
– Dag Hammarskjold
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