Freedom Quotes

"Every law is an infraction of liberty."

"No power of government ought to be employed in the violation of any natural right."

"The worst form of tyranny is the tyranny of the majority over the minority."

"The love of liberty and the love of order must be balanced."

"True freedom consists not in the absence of restraint but in the wise restraint of excess."

"Every person is the best judge of their own interest."

"The greatest gift one can give is the freedom to become oneself."

"Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom."

"The more you own, the more you are bound to it."

"Real freedom is the freedom to choose truth."

"To exist as a human being is to have constant choices before you."

"Anxiety reveals something that other emotions cannot: the nature of human freedom."

"The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself."

"One should as a rule respect public opinion in so far as is necessary to avoid starvation and to prevent oneself from being cast in jail. But anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny."

"It is forbidden to forbid."

"The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that very existence is an act of rebellion."

"Freedom is independence of the compulsory will of another."

"The greatest freedom is not doing what one likes, but not having to do what one dislikes."

"The use of freedom is its own purpose."

"Freedom is not the ability to do as we wish, but to choose as we ought."

"Workers of the world, unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains."

"Freedom consists of the control of the conditions of one's existence."

"Men are not free to choose their productive forces, as every productive force is an acquired force."

"Freedom is so precious that it must be rationed."

"The worker of the world has nothing to lose but their chains and a world to win."

"True freedom means the ability to determine the conditions of one's own existence."

"Freedom is the recognition of necessity."

"To be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects the freedom of others."

"The goal of the world spirit is the realization of freedom."

"The idea that is truly infinite is freedom."