Free Famous Quotes – More Sayings On Freedom

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“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

“We are free to yield to truth.”
– Horace

“Freedom is the only law which genius knows.”
– James Russel Lowell

“Nothing, Everything, Anything, Something: If you have nothing, then you have everything, because you have the freedom to do anything, without the fear of losing something.”
– Jarod Kintz

“Man is born free, yet he is everywhere in chains.”
– Jean Jacques Rousseau

“Free people, remember this maxim: We may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lost.”
– Jean Jacques Rousseau

“A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue.”
– Jean Jacques Rousseau

“Freedom is what you do with what’s been done to you.”
– Jean-Paul Sartre

“The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. You trade in your sense for an act. You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask. There can’t be any large-scale revolution until there’s a personal revolution, on an individual level. It’s got to happen inside first.”
– Jim Morrison

“Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.”
– Jim Morrison

“I’m a big advocate of freedom: freedom of speech, freedom of expression, freedom of thought.”
– Jimmy Wales

“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.”
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists; but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more.”
– John Adams

“The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission. ”
– John F. Kennedy

“The unity of freedom has never relied on uniformity of opinion.”
– John F. Kennedy

“In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I do not shrink from this responsibility — I welcome it.”
– John F. Kennedy

“Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.”
– John Milton

“None can love freedom heartily, but good men… the rest love not freedom, but license.”
– John Milton

“Freedom is only granted us that obedience may be more perfect.”
– John Ruskin

“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.”
– John Stuart Mill

“Let children read whatever they want and then talk about it with them. If parents and kids can talk together, we won’t have as much censorship because we won’t have as much fear.”
– Judy Blume

“Yet, Freedom! yet thy banner, torn, but flying, streams like the thunderstorm against the wind.”
– Lord Byron

“He who is brave is free.”
– Lucius Annaeus Seneca

“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.”
– Lucius Annaeus Seneca

“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.”
– Mahatma Gandhi

“The moment the slave resolves that he will no longer be a slave. His fetters fall… freedom and slavery are mental states.”
– Mahatma Gandhi

“Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err.”
– Mahatma Gandhi

“As long as men are free to ask what they must, free to say what they think, free to think what they will, freedom can never be lost and science can never regress.”
– Marcel Proust

“Freedom is a man’s natural power of doing what he pleases, so far as he is not prevented by force or law.”
– Marcus Tullius Cicero

“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.”
– Mark Twain

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