Famous Quotes & Sayings

James Madison

No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.

John Dos Passos

Democracy evolves where freedom is able to determine its own policy.

John O'Donohue

In order to inherit your freedom, you need to go towards it. You have to claim your own freedom before it becomes yours.

John Mortimer

The freedom to make a fortune on the stock exchange has been made to sound more alluring than freedom of speech.

John Milton

Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.

John Desmond Bernal

Pauling was shocked by the freedom with which the X-ray crystallographers of the time, including particularly Astbury, played with the intimate chemical structure of their models. They seemed to think that if the atoms were arranged in the right order and about the right distance apart, that was all that mattered, that no further restrictions need to be put on them.

Jimmy Wales

I'm a big advocate of freedom: freedom of speech, freedom of expression, freedom of thought.

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

The people will learn to feel the dignity of man. They will not merely demand their rights, which have been trampled in the dust, but themselves will take them - make them their own.

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

The East knew and to the present day knows only that One is Free; the Greek and the Roman world, that some are free; the German World knows that All are free. The first political form therefore which we observe in History, is Despotism, the second Democracy and Aristocracy, the third, Monarchy.

Garrison Keillor

Freedom doesn't mean aimlessness. We can't just sleepwalk through life.... Freedom demands structure.

Frank Lloyd Wright

Freedom is from within.

Frank Lloyd Wright

A free America... means just this: individual freedom for all, rich or poor, or else this system of government we call democracy is only an expedient to enslave man to the machine and make him like it.

Lord Acton

The finest opportunity ever given to the world was thrown away because the passion of equality made vain the hope for freedom.

Lord Acton

It is bad to be oppressed by a minority, but it is worse to be oppressed by a majority.

Edward Teller

The best weapon of a dictatorship is secrecy; the best weapon of a democracy is openness.

Edie Brickell

You feel like a prisoner if you don't create. You're jailed up inside of yourself.

Edith Hamilton

When the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free and was never free again.

Eckhart Tolle

When each thought absorbs your attention completely, it means you identify with the voice in your head. Thought then becomes invested with a sense of self. This is the ego, a mind-made "me." That mentally constructed self feels incomplete and precarious. That's why fearing and wanting are its predominant emotions and motivating forces.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

People demand freedom only when they have no power.

Joseph A. Schumpeter

It is not true that democracy will always safeguard freedom of conscience better than autocracy. Witness the most famous of all trials. Pilate was, from the standpoint of the Jews, certainly the representative of autocracy. Yet he tried to protect freedom. And he yielded to a democracy.

Jose Marti

The dagger plunged in the name of freedom is plunged into the breast of freedom.

Jose Ortega y Gasset

The well being of democracies regardless of their type and status is dependent on one small technical detail: The right to vote. Everything else is secondary.

Joni Mitchell

We love our lovin'....but not like we love our freedom.

Khalil Gibran

you can muffle the drum, and you can loosen the strings of the lyre, but who shall command the skylark not to sing?

Khalil Gibran

A man can be free without being great, but no man can be great without being free.

Khalil Gibran

Your freedom when it loses its fetters becomes itself the fetter of a greater freedom.

Khalil Gibran

Forgetfulness is a form of freedom.

Jonathan Swift

I would rather be a freeman among slaves than a slave among freemen.

Lyn Nofziger

As I watch government at all levels daily eat away at our freedom, I keep thinking how prosperity and government largesse have combined to make most of us fat and lazy and indifferent to, or actually in favor of, the limits being placed on that freedom.

Louis D. Brandeis

Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the Government's purposes are beneficent. Men born to freedom are naturally alert to repel invasion of their liberty by evil-minded rulers. The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in the insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning but without understanding.

Lord Byron

Know ye not who would be free themselves must strike the blow? by their right arms the conquest must be wrought?

Lord Byron

A celebrity is one who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn't know.

Lord Kelvin

Let nobody be afraid of true freedom of thought. Let us be free in thought and criticism; but, with freedom, we are bound to come to the conclusion that science is not antagonistic to religion, but a help to it.