The repository contains 65 quotes in the category “Freedom.”
Showing quotes 41 through 60 in the category “Freedom.” Page 1 2 3 4.
The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time.
President Thomas Jefferson
1743 — 1826
No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck.
Frederick Douglass
1818 — 1895
Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.
Albert Einstein
1879 — 1955
If you cannot be free, be as free as you can.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803 — 1882
He only earns his freedom and existence who daily conquers them anew.
Goethe
1749 — 1832
As long as possible live free and uncommitted. It makes but little difference whether you are committed to a farm or the county jail.
Henry David Thoreau
1817 — 1862
In the truest sense freedom cannot be bestowed, it must be achieved.
President Franklin Delano Roosevelt
1882 — 1945
Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
President John F. Kennedy
1917 — 1963
Everything one has a right to do is not best to be done.
Benjamin Franklin
1706 — 1790
All violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat of suffering or death, to do what they do not want to do.
Count Leo Tolstoy
1828 — 1910
There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences.
P. J. O’Rourke
1947 —
There are just two rules of governance in a free society: mind your own business, and keep your hands to yourself.
P. J. O’Rourke
1947 —
We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.
John Webster
1580? — 1632?
The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive. It will often be exercised when wrong, but better so than not to be exercised at all.
President Thomas Jefferson
1743 — 1826
Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.
Mohandas K. Gandhi
1869 — 1948
I may disagree with what you have to say, but I shall defend to the death your right to say it.
Voltaire
1694 — 1778
Absolute freedom mocks at justice. Absolute justice denies freedom.
Albert Camus
1913 — 1960
A free society is a place where it’s safe to be unpopular.
Ambassador Adlai Stevenson
1900 — 1965
Man is condemned to be free because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.
Jean-Paul Sartre
1905 — 1980
America is a land which fought for freedom and then began passing laws to get rid of it.
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