Famous Quotations About Freedom

Here are some famous quotations about freedom. We have quotes made by Edward R. Murrow, Henrik Ibsen, Mark Twain, Virginia Woolf plus others.

Freedom is not enough.

Freedom is nothing else but a chance to be better.

If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.

It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.

Perfect freedom is reserved for the man who lives by his own work, and in that work does what he wants to do.

The fact, in short, is that freedom to be meaningful in an organized society must consist of an amalgam of hierarchy of freedoms and restraints.

The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding.

The loss of liberty in general would soon follow the suppression of the liberty of the press; for it is an essential branch of liberty, so perhaps it is the best preservative of the whole.

The pillars of truth and the pillars of freedom - they are the pillars of society.

The purpose of freedom is to create it for others.

Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.

Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet deprecate agitation, are men who want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the roar of its many waters.

Those who suppress freedom always do so in the name of law and order.

To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves.

We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home.

What is freedom? Freedom is the right to choose: the right to create for yourself the alternatives of choice. Without the possibility of choice and the exercise of choice a man is not a man but a member, an instrument, a thing.

Whereas each man claims his freedom as a matter of right, the freedom he accords to other men is a matter of toleration.

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