Best Freedom Quotes | Freedom Of Speech Quotes

Books were my pass to personal freedom. I learned to read at age three, and soon discovered there was a whole world to conquer that went beyond our farm in Mississippi. -Oprah Winfrey

If you’re not ready to die for it, put the word ‘freedom’ out of your vocabulary. -Malcolm X

There can be no real freedom without the freedom to fail. -Erich Fromm

Freedom in art, freedom in society, this is the double goal towards which all consistent and logical minds must strive. -Victor Hugo

The only way that has ever been discovered to have a lot of people cooperate together voluntarily is through the free market. And that’s why it’s so essential to preserving individual freedom. -Milton Friedman

The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy their second worst enemy is total efficiency. -Aldous Huxley

(Freedom quotes)Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground. -Frederick Douglass

I believe all Americans who believe in freedom, tolerance and human rights have a responsibility to oppose bigotry and prejudice based on sexual orientation. -Coretta Scott King

I don’t want to transform America. I want to restore to America the economic values of freedom and opportunity and limited government that has made us the powerhouse of the world. -Mitt Romney

The secret of freedom lies in educating people, whereas the secret of tyranny is in keeping them ignorant. -Maximilien Robespierre

There are 4 billion cell phones in use today. Many of them are in the hands of market vendors, rickshaw drivers, and others who’ve historically lacked access to education and opportunity. Information networks have become a great leveler, and we should use them together to help lift people out of poverty and give them a freedom from want. -Hillary Clinton

The words spoken by the leader of the free world can expand the frontiers of freedom or shrink them. When Ronald Reagan called on Gorbachev to ‘tear down this wall,’ a surge of confidence rose that would ultimately breach the bounds of the evil empire. -Mitt Romney

Make no mistake, in this campaign, I will offer the American ideals of economic freedom a clear and unapologetic defense. -Mitt Romney

President Obama orders religious organizations to violate their conscience. I will defend religious liberty and overturn regulations that trample on our first freedom. -Mitt Romney

Back a hundred years ago, especially around Woodrow Wilson, what happened in this country is we took freedom and we chopped it into pieces. -Ron Paul When one makes a Revolution, one cannot mark time one must always go forward – or go back. He who now talks about the ‘freedom of the press’ goes backward, and halts our headlong course towards Socialism. -Vladimir Lenin

Pakistan not only means freedom and independence but the Muslim Ideology which has to be preserved, which has come to us as a precious gift and treasure and which, we hope other will share with us. -Muhammad Ali Jinnah

Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty – his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure. -Aldous Huxley

Every friend of freedom must be as revolted as I am by the prospect of turning the United States into an armed camp, by the vision of jails filled with casual drug users and of an army of enforcers empowered to invade the liberty of citizens on slight evidence. -Milton Friedman

We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought. -Bertrand Russell

We can be thankful to a friend for a few acres, or a little money and yet for the freedom and command of the whole earth, and for the great benefits of our being, our life, health, and reason, we look upon ourselves as under no obligation. -Lucius Annaeus Seneca

A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the will’s freedom after it. -Aldous Huxley

They won’t break me because the desire for freedom, and the freedom of the Irish people, is in my heart. The day will dawn when all the people of Ireland will have the desire for freedom to show. It is then that we will see the rising of the moon. -Bobby Sands

History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid. -Dwight D. Eisenhower

Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom. -Soren Kierkegaard

You don’t have freedom because you are a hyphenated American you have freedom because you are an individual, and that should be protected. -Ron Paul

Ultimately, America’s answer to the intolerant man is diversity, the very diversity which our heritage of religious freedom has inspired. -Robert Kennedy

Religious freedom opens a door for Americans that is closed to too many others around the world. But whether we walk through that door, and what we do with our lives after we do, is up to us. -Mitt Romney

Freedom. Freedom of religion. Freedom to speak their mind. Freedom to build a life. And yes, freedom to build a business. With their own hands. This is the essence of the American experience. -Mitt Romney

There are necessary evils. Money is an important thing in terms of representing freedom in our world. And now I have a daughter to think about. It’s really the first time I’ve thought about the future and what it could be. -Johnny Depp

Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it. -John Quincy Adams

Perhaps religious conscience upsets the designs of those who feel that the highest wisdom and authority comes from government. But from the beginning, this nation trusted in God, not man. Religious liberty is the first freedom in our Constitution. -Mitt Romney

Financial freedom quotes- Freedom is a possession of inestimable value. -Marcus Tullius Cicero

Freedom is the right to live as we wish. -Epictetus

If there is any principle of the Constitution that more imperatively calls for attachment than any other it is the principle of free thought, not free thought for those who agree with us but freedom for the thought that we hate. -Oliver Wendell Holmes

Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired, but by controlling the desire. -Epictetus

Freedom means the right of people to assemble, organize, and debate openly. -Hillary Clinton

What then is freedom? The power to live as one wishes. -Marcus Tullius Cicero

I know of no country in which there is so little independence of mind and real freedom of discussion as in America. -Alexis de Tocqueville

Perhaps the fact that we have seen millions voting themselves into complete dependence on a tyrant has made our generation understand that to choose one’s government is not necessarily to secure freedom. -Friedrich August von Hayek

The family is the test of freedom because the family is the only thing that the free man makes for himself and by himself. -Gilbert K. Chesterton

Both the American people and nations that censor the internet should understand that our government is committed to helping promote internet freedom. -Hillary Clinton

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

We gain freedom when we have paid the full price. -Rabindranath Tagore

Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners. -Vladimir Lenin

Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth when perfect sincerity is expected, perfect freedom must be allowed nor has anyone who is apt to be angry when he hears the truth any cause to wonder that he does not hear it. -Tacitus

Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure. -Bertrand Russell

Freedom is the most contagious virus known to man. -Hubert H. Humphrey

Shall I tell you what the real evil is? To cringe to the things that are called evils, to surrender to them our freedom, in defiance of which we ought to face any suffering. -Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Analysis does not set out to make pathological reactions impossible, but to give the patient’s ego freedom to decide one way or another. -Sigmund Freud

Pervading nationalism imposes its dominion on man today in many different forms and with an aggressiveness that spares no one. The challenge that is already with us is the temptation to accept as true freedom what in reality is only a new form of slavery. -Pope John Paul II

A major source of objection to a free economy is precisely that group thinks they ought to want. Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself. -Milton Friedman

There is nothing wrong with America that faith, love of freedom, intelligence, and energy of her citizens cannot cure. -Dwight D. Eisenhower

I know but one freedom, and that is the freedom of the mind. -Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Freedom is not something that one people can bestow on another as a gift. Thy claim it as their own and none can keep it from them. -Kwame Nkrumah

You don’t have to be a man to fight for freedom. All you have to do is to be an intelligent human being. -Malcolm X

Emancipation from the bondage of the soil is no freedom for the tree. -Rabindranath Tagore

Freedom from the desire for an answer is essential to the understanding of a problem. -Jiddu Krishnamurti

Be strong, believe in freedom and in God, love yourself, understand your sexuality, have a sense of humor, masturbate, don’t judge people by their religion, color or sexual habits, love life and your family. -Madonna Ciccone(Freedom quotes)

The more decisions that you are forced to make alone, the more you are aware of your freedom to choose. -Thornton Wilder

Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows. -George Orwell

Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life. -Arthur Schopenhauer

A just laicism allows religious freedom. The state does not impose religion but rather gives space to religions with a responsibility toward civil society, and therefore it allows these religions to be factors in building up society. -Joseph Ratzinger

As soon as laws are necessary for men, they are no longer fit for freedom. -Pythagoras

I come bearing an olive branch in one hand, and the freedom fighter’s gun in the other. Do not let the olive branch fall from my hand. -Yasser Arafat

Who is more to be pitied, a writer bound and gagged by policemen or one living in perfect freedom who has nothing more to say? -Kurt Vonnegut

Personal identity seems like it’s just such an American archetype, from Holly Golightly re-inventing herself in ‘Breakfast At Tiffany’s’ to Jay Gatsby in ‘The Great Gatsby.’ It seems like the sort of archetypal American issue. If you’re given the freedom to be anything, or be anyone, what do you do with it? -Chuck Palahniuk

The intense happiness of our union is derived in a high degree from the perfect freedom with which we each follow and declare our own impressions. -George Eliot

freedom of speech quotes-Human beings the world over need freedom and security that they may be able to realize their full potential. -Aung San Suu Kyi

I stand for freedom of expression, doing what you believe in, and going after your dreams. -Madonna Ciccone

I begin to feel like most Americans don’t understand the First Amendment, don’t understand the idea of freedom of speech, and don’t understand that it’s the responsibility of the citizen to speak out. -Roger Ebert

The secret to happiness is freedom… And the secret to freedom is courage. -Thucydides

Liberals, it has been said, are generous with other peoples’ money, except when it comes to questions of national survival when they prefer to be generous with other people’s freedom and security. -William F. Buckley, Jr.

We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home. -Edward R. Murrow

Americans admire a people who can scratch a desert and produce a garden. The Israelis have shown qualities that Americans identify with: guts, patriotism, idealism, a passion for freedom. I have seen it. I know. I believe that. -Richard M. Nixon

Any nation that thinks more of its ease and comfort than its freedom will soon lose its freedom and the ironical thing about it is that it will lose its ease and comfort too. -W. Somerset Maugham

When there is state there can be no freedom, but when there is freedom there will be no state. -Vladimir Lenin

We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom. -Dwight D. Eisenhower

Governments that block the aspirations of their people, that steal or are corrupt, that oppress and torture or that deny freedom of expression and human rights should bear in mind that they will find it increasingly hard to escape the judgement of their own people, or where warranted, the reach of international law. -William Hague

A filmmaker has almost the same freedom as a novelist has when he buys himself some paper. -Stanley Kubrick

In this possibly terminal phase of human existence, democracy and freedom are more than just ideals to be valued – they may be essential to survival. -Noam Chomsky

The greatest threat to freedom is the absence of criticism. -Wole Soyinka

The end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom. For in all the states of created beings capable of law, where there is no law, there is no freedom. -John Locke

Everywhere that freedom stirs, let tyrants fear. -George W. Bush

History suggests that capitalism is a necessary condition for political freedom. Clearly it is not a sufficient condition. -Milton Friedman

Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself. -Milton Friedman

Freedom itself was attacked this morning by a faceless coward, and freedom will be defended. -George W. Bush

History has taught us over and over again that freedom is not free. When push comes to shove, the ultimate protectors of freedom and liberty are the brave men and women in our armed forces. Throughout our history, they’ve answered the call in bravery and sacrifice. -Tim Pawlenty

Just living is not enough. One must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower. -Hans Christian Andersen

Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom. -Hannah Arendt

Even before I knew I was gay, I knew I didn’t want to have a child. I knew I didn’t want to have one. I never want to have to release it from me. Listen, I love babies. I love children. And I melt when I’m around them. I also love my freedom and I love that I can sleep at night. -Ellen DeGeneres

Fiction is such a world of freedom, it’s wonderful. If you want someone to fly, they can fly. -Alice Walker