Top Inspiring Freedom Quotes to Live By - page 19
Freedom is always and exclusively freedom for the one who thinks differently.
Rosa Luxemburg
There is more than one kind of freedom," said Aunt Lydia. "Freedom to and freedom from. In the days of anarchy, it was freedom to. Now you are being given freedom from. Don't underrate it.
And if I should later be attacked for neglecting my constituents' "interests," I shall reply that I was informed that their main interest is liberty and that in that cause I am doing the very best I can.
Barry Goldwater
What a perversion of the normal order of things! ... to make power the primary and central object of the social system, and Liberty but its satellite.
He who fox-like got his rank, Is wolf-like in his office.
Vasily Zhukovsky
Everything is a gift from God: it is only by recognizing this crucial dependence on the Creator that we will find freedom and peace.
In a free country every man thinks he has a concern in all public matters,--that he has a right to form and a right to deliver an opinion on them. This it is that fills countries with men of ability in all stations.
The trouble with celebrating Independence Day is that we tend to look back at what made this the great nation that it is and give little thought to a future that threatens that which free men hold dearest, namely freedom.
Lyn Nofziger
It is often safer to be in chains than to be free.
Freedom is not the absence of commitments, but the ability to choose - and commit myself to - what is best for me.
Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
William Penn
To know how to free oneself is nothing; the arduous thing is to know what to do with one's freedom.
Andre Gide
This moving away from comfort and security, this stepping out into what is unknown, uncharted and shaky - that's called liberation.
When all the objectives of government include the achievement of equality - other than equality before the law - that government poses a threat to liberty.
That freedom that Picasso afforded himself, to be an artist in a huge number of ways, seems to be a huge psychological liberation.
Anish Kapoor
Every human being has a right to hear what other wise human beings have spoken to him. It is one of the Rights of Men; a very cruel injustice if you deny it to a man!
No, Freedom has a thousand charms to show
That slaves, howe'er contented, never know.
William Cowper
