Freedom Quotes

"Freedom is the only worthy goal in life."

"Our time is limited, so do not waste it living someone else's life."

"Freedom is not the absence of constraint but the presence of chosen constraints."

"The greatest tyranny is that which chains the human intellect."

"A society that suppresses free inquiry seals its own intellectual doom."

"The person enslaved by passion is no more free than the prisoner in chains."

"One should as a rule respect public opinion in so far as is necessary to avoid starvation and to prevent one's ear drums from bursting, but anything more than this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny."

"The greatest glory of a free people is the power to govern themselves."

"A free people ought not only to be armed and disciplined, but they should have sufficient arms and ammunition to maintain status quo of liberty without any dependence upon foreign importations."

"The highest manifestation of life consists in this: that a being governs its own actions. A being that is always subject to external forces is hardly living."

"The soul is like an arena upon which the play of free will is enacted."

"True liberty consists of the right to do whatever the laws permit."

"You are not responsible for the world's opinion of you, but you are responsible for your own."

"God has made me free; do you think He would allow His own son to be enslaved?"

"Some things are within our control, but many are not; therein lies our freedom."

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

"How can I be free when I am enslaved by my own desires?"

"Those who have never known true discipline cannot understand true freedom."

"We must free ourselves from the prison of affairs and politics."

"A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility."

"We should free ourselves of the prison of everyday life, of politics."

"The greatest fruit of self-sufficiency is freedom."

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

"In each of us there is a prison, and the lock is on the inside."

"You cannot choose your external circumstances, but you can always choose how you respond to them."

"Our actions may be impeded, but there can be no impeding our intentions or dispositions."

"I come not here as an aggressor but as a liberator."

"A man is a slave if he cannot speak the truth."

"The rational mind must never be enslaved by tradition, no matter how ancient or revered."

"The paradox of freedom is that it requires the discipline of reason to be exercised well."