Freedom Quotes

The most fought-for idea in human history, explored by those who won it, lost it, and fought to keep it.

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M
"What's the point of having freedom of speech if you're afraid to use it?"
Mort Sahl
L
"I don't care what you think about me. I don't think about you at all."
Lily Tomlin
"Freedom is the most important thing you have."
Fred Allen
"Long live the spirit of resistance and insubordination."
Fred Allen
G
"I think we're all just looking for permission to be ourselves."
Gilda Radner
G
"The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me."
Gracie Allen
"Freedom is the oxygen of the soul."
Fred Allen
"Freedom is not free; it comes with a price."
Fred Allen
M
"Conservatives want to police bedrooms. Liberals want to police kitchens. Both are wrong."
Mort Sahl
M
"The more you own, the more it owns you."
Mort Sahl
M
"Most people are not really interested in freedom, as long as they got enough."
Mort Sahl
M
"The greatest threat to freedom is apathy."
Mort Sahl
"I fervently hope that the fires of freedom will burn brightly to the end of time."
Phyllis Diller
G
"Life is too short to spend it being someone you're not."
Gilda Radner
"The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that very existence is an act of rebellion."
George Burns
B
"Freedom is worth fighting for."
Bob Hope
M
"Freedom means never having to ask permission to be yourself."
Mort Sahl
G
"A woman's place is in the home, unless she wants to be somewhere else—then it's wherever she says it is."
Gracie Allen
R
"Freedom is not free; it's earned through sacrifice."
Red Skelton
B
"The world needs more people who dare to be themselves."
Bob Hope
"The greatest luxury in life is having time to enjoy it."
George Burns
G
"I think people should be free to do whatever they want, as long as it doesn't bother anybody else."
Gracie Allen
"I admire any man who can do what he wants."
Mae West
"Give me a man who can do what he wants, when he wants it."
Mae West
"My life is my own creation, and so shall be my death."
Mae West
R
"I believe everyone should have the right to pursue happiness."
Red Skelton
J
"Freedom is the open window through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit."
Jack Benny
L
"I am my own person. I'm not trying to step in anyone's shoes."
Lucille Ball
L
"Freedom is a responsibility, not just a right."
Lucille Ball
"I used to play it safe in life; do what people expected of me. But one day I realized something: life is about playing your own game."
Fred Allen