Freedom Quotes and Sayings

Posted by Brian

Freedom is the oxygen of the soul. – Moshe Dayan

True freedom equals order; false freedom equals disorder. – Victorino Q. Abrugar

History does not teach fatalism.  There are moments when the will of a handful of free men breaks through determinism and opens up new roads. – Charles de Gaulle

O Liberty…! is it well, To leave the gates unguarded? – Thomas Bailey Aldrich

To know how to free oneself is nothing; the arduous thing is to know what to do with one’s freedom. – Andre Gide

Freedom is not enough. – Lyndon B. Johnson

Let freedom never perish in your hands. – Joseph Addison

While we are free to choose our actions, we are not free to choose the consequences of our actions. – Stephen R. Covey

We have to call it “Freedom”: who’d want to die for “a lesser tyranny”? – Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic’s Notebook, 1960

We on this continent should never forget that men first crossed the Atlantic not to find soil for their ploughs but to secure liberty for their souls. – Robert J. McCracken

Most men, after a little freedom, have preferred authority with the consoling assurances and the economy of effort which it brings. – Walter Lippmann, A Preface to Morals, 1929

Freedom is that instant between when someone tells you to do something and when you decide how to respond. – Jeffrey Borenstein

Freedom is the will to be responsible to ourselves. – Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols, 1888

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

The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding. – Louis D. Brandeis

There are two freedoms – the false, where a man is free to do what he likes; the true, where he is free to do what he ought. – Charles Kingsley

Who speaks of liberty while the human mind is in chains? – Francis Wright, 1828

The rich rules over the poor, And the borrower is servant to the lender. – Proverbs 22:7 (NKJV)

Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide. – Napoleon Bonaparte

Without freedom, no one really has a name. – Milton Acorda

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

A nation may lose its liberties in a day and not miss them in a century. – Baron de Montesquieu

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

I prefer liberty with danger to peace with slavery. – Author Unknown

Most people want security in this world, not liberty. – H.L. Mencken, Minority Report, 1956

Freedom and Slavery are of the same thing. The only difference is who’s your Master? – Victorino Q. Abrugar

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

People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use. – Soren Kierkegaard

For what avail the plough or sail, or land or life, if freedom fail? – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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


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