1,014 Quotes Regarding Freedom


Today's Constitution is a realistic document of freedom only because of several corrective amendments. Those amendments speak to a sense of decency and fairness that I and other Blacks cherish.
Thurgood Marshall

True independence and freedom can only exist in doing what's right.
Brigham Young

I am conservative with a small 'c.' It's possible to be conservative in fiscal policy, and tolerant on moral issues or questions of freedom of expression.
Mick Jagger

Freedom granted only when it is known beforehand that its effects will be beneficial is not freedom.
Friedrich August von Hayek

Analysis gave me great freedom of emotions and fantastic confidence. I felt I had served my time as a puppet.
Hedy Lamarr

In South Africa, we could not have achieved our freedom and just peace without the help of people around the world, who through the use of non-violent means, such as boycotts and divestment, encouraged their governments and other corporate actors to reverse decades-long support for the Apartheid regime.
Desmond Tutu

Pleasure and freedom from pain, are the only things desirable as ends.
John Stuart Mill

Look, freedom is an overwhelming American notion. The idea that we want to see the world, the peoples of the world free is something that all of us subscribe to.
Joe Biden

We must face the fact that the preservation of individual freedom is incompatible with a full satisfaction of our views of distributive justice.
Friedrich August von Hayek

Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Art gives me the freedom I don't have when I make music.
Marilyn Manson

For all who love freedom and peace, the world without Saddam Hussein's regime is a better and safer place.
George W. Bush

The terrorists are fighting freedom with all their cunning and cruelty because freedom is their greatest fear - and they should be afraid, because freedom is on the march.
George W. Bush

The road to freedom lies not through mysteries or occult performances, but through the intelligent use of natural forces and laws.
Ernest Holmes

The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
Desmond Tutu

Freedom is not enough.
Lyndon B. Johnson

Freedom and democracy are dreams you never give up.
Aung San Suu Kyi

All stories interest me, and some haunt me until I end up writing them. Certain themes keep coming up: justice, loyalty, violence, death, political and social issues, freedom.
Isabel Allende

People demand freedom only when they have no power.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one.
A. J. Liebling