Freedom Quotes And Sayings

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“Freedom and not servitude is the cure of anarchy; as religion, and not atheism, is the true remedy of superstition.”
– Edmund Burke

“People never give up their liberties but under some delusion.”
– Edmund Burke

“We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home.”
– Edward R. Murrow

“For you who no longer posses it, freedom is everything, for us who do, it is merely an illusion.”
– Emil Cioran

“Freedom is the right to live as we wish.”
– Epictetus

“We feel free when we escape – even if it be but from the frying pan into the fire.”
– Eric Hoffer

“Freedom is the fundamental condition for any growth.”
– Erich Fromm

“Modern European and American history is centered around the effort to gain freedom from the political, economic, and spiritual shackles that have bound men. The battles for freedom where fought by the oppressed, those who wanted new liberties, against those who had privileges to defend. While a class was fighting for its own liberation from domination, it believed itself to be fighting for human freedom as such and thus was able to appeal to an ideal, to the longing for freedom rooted in all who are oppressed. In the long and virtually continuous battle for freedom, however, classes that were fighting against oppression at one stage sided with the enemies of freedom when victory was won and new privileges were to be defended.”
– Erich Fromm

“Every event has a cause–that is … for every event e1 there exists an event e2 (or a class of events e2, e3 …) which precedes e1 and of which e1 is a necessary consequence…. If we assent to this statement then your “choice” to do A rather than B, whatever may have been at the time your sensation of freedom from any constraint, was entirely necessitated. You could not have done otherwise and hence, according to this conception of freedom, were not free.”
– Ermanno Bencivenga

“Proving one’s freedom will often mean insisting on the most arbitrary, odd, unrepeatable aspects of one’s behavior.”
– Ermanno Bencivenga

“To be able to think freely, a man must be certain that no consequence will follow whatever he writes.”
– Ernest Renan

“We anarchists do not want to emancipate the people; we want the people to emancipate themselves.”
– Errico Malatesta

“We have enjoyed so much freedom for so long that we are perhaps in danger of forgetting how much blood it cost to establish the Bill of Rights.”
– Felix Frankfurter

“Who speaks of liberty while the human mind is in chains?”
– Francis Wright

“In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved.”
– Franklin D. Roosevelt

“We … would rather die on our feet than live on our knees.”
– Franklin Delano Roosevelt

“Heaven’s blessing must attend all, and freedom must soon be given to the pining millions under a ruthless bondage.”
– Frederick Douglass

“No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck.”
– Frederick Douglass

“Freedom can be preserved only if it is treated as a supreme principle which must not be sacrificed for particular advantages.”
– Friedrich Hayek

“It is because freedom means the renunciation of direct control of individual efforts that a free society can make use of so much more knowledge than the mind of the wisest ruler could comprehend.”
– Friedrich Hayek

“Our submission to general principles is necessary because we cannot be guided in our practical action by full knowledge and evaluation of the consequences. So long as men are not omniscient, the only way in which freedom can be given to the individual is by such general rules to delimit the sphere in which the decision is his. There can be no freedom if the government is not limited to particular kinds of action but can use its powers in any ways which serve particular ends.”
– Friedrich Hayek

“The importance of our being free to do a particular thing has nothing to do with the question of whether we or the majority are ever likely to make use of that particular possibility. To grant no more freedom than all can exercise would be to misconceive its function completely. The freedom that will be used by only one man in a million may be more important to society and more beneficial to the majority than any freedom that we all use.”
– Friedrich Hayek

“Freedom is the will to be responsible to ourselves.”
– Friedrich Nietzsche

“Walk where your heart leads you, there are no restrictions and no burdens.”
– Gao Xingjian

“Liberty means responsibility.  That is why most men dread it.”
– George Bernard Shaw

“The anchor in our world today is freedom, holding us steady in times of change, a symbol of hope to all the world.”
– George H.W. Bush

“When the People contend for their liberty, they seldom get anything for their Victory but new Masters.”
– George Savile

“I anticipate with pleasing expectations that retreat in which I promise myself to realize, without alloy, the sweet enjoyment of partaking, in the midst of my fellow citizens, the benign influence of good laws under a free government, the ever favorite object of my heart, and the happy reward, as I trust, of our mutual cares, labors, and dangers.”
– George Washington

“If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.”
– George Washington

“Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.”
– George Washington

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