Freedom Quotes And Sayings

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“Freedom varies in direct relation to group stability. The greater the group stability, the greater the freedom. The reverse proposition also holds. Hence, freedom is an opportunity enjoyed in times and places where public policy as interpreted by public authority leans away from restraint toward a greater number and variety of choices. A gradual or sudden change in the community boundaries, will be reflected in lessened or augmented limitations.”
– Scott Nearing

“I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.”
– Simone De Beauvoir

“The supreme end is the freedom of the spirit.”
– Sri Aurobindo

“Witness and stand back from Nature, that is the first step to the soul’s freedom.”
– Sri Aurobindo

“Caged birds accept each other but flight is what they long for.”
– Tennessee Williams

“No man is above the law and no man below it.”
– Theodore Roosevelt

“Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally destructive.”
– Theodore Roosevelt

“Freedom is the basic condition for you to touch life, to touch the blue sky, the trees, the birds, the tea, and the other person.”
– Thich Nhat Hanh

“The patriot’s blood is the seed of Freedom’s tree.”
– Thomas Campbell

“Everywhere the human soul stands between a hemisphere of light and another of darkness on the confines of two everlasting hostile empires, – Necessity and Free Will.”
– Thomas Carlyle

“Many politicians are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom.  The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim.”
– Thomas Macaulay

“He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from opposition; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach himself.”
– Thomas Paine

“Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.”
– Thomas Paine

“Freedom is never free.”
– Unknown

“It is easy to take liberty for granted, when you have never had it taken from you.”
– Unknown

“Men fight for freedom, then they begin to accumulate laws to take it away from themselves.”
– Unknown

“I may not agree with what you say, but to your death I will defend your right to say it.”
– Voltaire

“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.”
– W. Somerset Maugham

“Most men, after a little freedom, have preferred authority with the consoling assurances and the economy of effort which it brings.”
– Walter Lippmann

“Liberty doesn’t work as well in practice as it does in speeches.”
– Will Rogers

“We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.”
– William Faulkner

“The cause of Freedom is the cause of God!”
– William Lisle Bowles

“Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves.”
– William Pitt

“Freedom has a thousand charms to show, that slaves, howe’er contented, never know.”
– William Cowper

“Liberty has never come from the government.  Liberty has always come from the subjects of it.  The history of liberty is a history of resistance.”
– Woodrow Wilson

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