Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Ford

Whilst we strive To live most free, we're caught in our own toils.

John F. Kennedy

I want every American to be free to stand up for his rights, even if sometimes he has to sit down for them.

John F. Kennedy

All students, members of the faculty, and public officials in both Mississippi and the Nation will be able, it is hoped, to return to their normal activities with full confidence in the integrity of American law. This is as it should be, for our Nation is founded on the principle that observance of the law is the eternal safeguard of liberty and defiance of the law is the surest road to tyranny.

John F. Kennedy

While we shall never weary in the defense of freedom, neither shall we ever abandon the pursuit of peace.

John F. Kennedy

Only an educated and informed people will be a free people.

John F. Kennedy

And this Nation, for all its hopes and all its boasts, will not be fully free until all its citizens are free.

John F. Kennedy

While we shall negotiate freely, we shall not negotiate freedom.

John F. Kennedy

For to save mankind's future freedom, we must face up to any risk that is necessary. We will always seek peace--but we will never surrender.

A free man is he who does not fear to go to the end of his thought.

Leo Tolstoy

The essence of all slavery consists in taking the product of another's labor by force. It is immaterial whether this force be founded upon ownership of the slave or ownership of the money that he must get to live.

Leo McKern

It is easy to believe in freedom of speech for those with whom we agree.

Leo Buscaglia

As long as you are free, you are free to select and choose alternatives, provided that you are willing to accept the responsibility for being free. And after you've tried your alternatives, and they don't work as you would wish, don't blame me. Blame your choice. Try another alternative.

Leo Buscaglia

If we wish to free ourselves from enslavement, we must choose freedom and the responsibility this entails.

Karl Popper

It is wrong to ask who will rule. The ability to vote a bad government out of office is enough. That is democracy.

Karl Popper

We must plan for freedom, and not only for security, if for no other reason than only freedom can make security more secure.

Karl Popper

I personally call the type of government which can be removed without violence 'democracy,' and the other, 'tyranny.'.

Karl Popper

It is wrong to think that belief in freedom always leads to victory; we must always be prepared for it to lead to defeat. If we choose freedom, then we must be prepared to perish along with it.

Karl Popper

We do not choose political freedom because it promises us this or that. We choose it because it makes possible the only dignified form of human coexistence, the only form in which we can be fully responsible for ourselves. Whether we realize its possibilities depends on all kinds of things — and above all on ourselves.

John Dryden

O freedom, first delight of human kind!

John Locke

Is it worth the name of freedom to be at liberty to play the fool?

John Locke

Whenever legislators endeavor to take away and destroy the property of the people, or to reduce them to slavery under arbitrary power, they put themselves into a state of war with the people, who are thereupon absolved from any further obedience.

John Locke

The end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom. For in all the states of created beings capable of law, where there is no law, there is no freedom.

John Lindsay

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

George Mason

All men are by nature born equally free and independent.

George Mason

No free government, or the blessings of liberty, can be preserved to any people, but by a firm adherence to justice, moderation, temperance, frugality and virtue.

George MacDonald

A man is as free as he chooses to make himself, never an atom freer.

Katherine Anne Porter

Freedom is a dangerous intoxicant and very few people can tolerate it in any quantity.

Katherine Anne Porter

Freedom, remember, is not the same as liberty.

Katherine Anne Porter

Eventually women will learn there's no such thing as freedom. Their husbands are just as fastened to the deck as they are. Men get onto a treadmill and never got off.

Katharine Graham

News is what someone wants suppressed. Everything else is advertising.

Joseph Cook

Safe popular freedom consists of four things, the diffusion of liberty, of intelligence, of property, and of conscientiousness, and cannot be compounded of any three out of the four.

Joseph de Maistre

Man in general, if reduced to himself, is too wicked to be free.

Langston Hughes

I tire so of hearing people say, Let things take their course. Tomorrow is another day. I do not need my freedom when I'm dead. I cannot live on tomorrow's bread.