Freedom Quotes

"It is forbidden to forbid."

"The slave is proud of his fetter as the bird is proud of its wings."

"To live dangerously is the privilege of the free spirit."

"The more a man owns, the more he is owned; he comes to be so encumbered with his possessions that he cannot move freely."

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

"The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that the very existence of the world is a problem to you."

"Once you label me you negate me."

"People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid."

"I desire only to be myself; that is all I ask."

"Either/or is the essence of human freedom."

"Freedom is not the absence of constraint but the right ordering of the soul."

"Freedom then is the power man has to act or not to act, and to choose which of two contraries he has a will to."

"True freedom is the power to do what you ought."

"Liberty is the power that a man has over his own actions."

"Slavery is so vile and miserable an estate of man and so directly opposite to the generous temper and courage of our nation."

"Man has as much right to say an unpleasant thing as to think it."

"As long as men are free to ask what they must, free to say what they think, free to think what they will, freedom can never be lost and science can never regress."

"Life without freedom is merely existence."

"Freedom requires responsibility."

"The greatest good of a people is ethical freedom."

"A person is free only when living under laws that one prescribes to oneself."

"Freedom and a lottery ticket cannot both be objects of desire."

"Man's freedom of choice is the foundation of his dignity."

"Liberty is the art of understanding."

"Freedom without responsibility is merely license."

"Freedom is the desire and power to preserve one's being."

"The truly free man is he whose life is determined by his own nature and not by external causes."

"To understand is to be free."

"Everything is determined by God, yet free will is given to man."

"Freedom without responsibility is mere chaos."