Famous Quotes & Sayings

Learned Hand

The spirit of liberty is the spirit that is not quite sure it is right.

John Greenleaf Whittier

Freedom's soil hath only place For a free and fearless race!

John Green

...And in freedom, most people find sin.

Patti Smith

Freedom is...the right to write the wrong words.

Martha Gellhorn

Freedom' is the most expensive possession there is; it has to be paid for with loneliness.

Marshall McLuhan

The school system is the homogenizing hopper into which we toss our integral tots for processing.

Miroslav Volf

Does a person have a right to change his or her own religion? This is a fundamental human right, just like a right to freedom of speech.

R. D. Laing

The brotherhood of man is evoked by particular men according to their circumstances. But it seldom extends to all men. In the name of our freedom and our brotherhood we are prepared to blow up the other half of mankind and to be blown up in our turn.

Princess Diana

I'm a free spirit - unfortunately for some.

Potter Stewart

Censorship reflects a society's lack of confidence in itself.

Nelson Mandela

The Liberty Bell is "a very significant symbol for the entire democratic world."

Nelson Mandela

I have taken a moment here to rest, to steal a view of the glorious vista that surrounds me, to look back on the distance I have come.

Nelson Mandela

Let freedom reign. The sun never set on so glorious a human achievement.

Nelson Mandela

There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere.

Nhat Hanh

Freedom is the basic condition for you to touch life, to touch the blue sky, the trees, the birds, the tea, and the other person.

Nhat Hanh

If we are free from attachment, we can easily recognize ourselves in other people, in different forms of manifestation, and then we don't have to suffer.

Noam Chomsky

In this possibly terminal phase of human existence, democracy and freedom are more than just ideals to be valued - they may be essential to survival.

Noam Chomsky

Free markets are based on the free circulation of labor. If you don't have free circulation of labor, you don't have free markets.

Hubert H. Humphrey

Certainly one of the chief guarantees of freedom under any government, no matter how popular and respected, is the right of citizens to keep and bear arms.

Hubert H. Humphrey

Freedom is the most contagious virus known to man.

Jamie Dixon

He really set the tone early. He recognized what we wanted to do early. He waited for his shots and he made his free throws.

Isaiah Berlin

Freedom for the wolves has often meant death to the sheep.

Isaiah Berlin

But to manipulate men, to propel them toward goals which you-the social reformers-see, but they may not, is to deny their human essence, to treat them as objects without wills of their own, and therefore to degrade them.

Igor Stravinsky

The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one

Omar N. Bradley

Freedom-no word was ever spoken that has held out greater hope, demanded greater sacrifice, needed more to be nurtured, blessed more the giver. . . or came closer to being God's will on earth.

Oprah Winfrey

The only thing that can free you is the belief that you can be free.

Margaret Atwood

There is more than one kind of freedom," said Aunt Lydia. "Freedom to and freedom from. In the days of anarchy, it was freedom to. Now you are being given freedom from. Don't underrate it.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

To freemen, threats are impotent.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Freedom is a possession of inestimable value.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Freedom is a man's natural power of doing what he pleases, so far as he is not prevented by force or law.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Our thoughts are free.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

To freemen, threats are impotent. [Lat., Nulla enim minantis auctoritas apud liberos est.]

Marcus Tullius Cicero

The recovery of freedom is so splendid a thing that we must not shun even death when seeking to recover it.