Free Famous Quotes – More Sayings On Freedom

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“Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed. ”
– Martin Luther King Jr.

“Liberty is one of the most precious gifts which heaven has bestowed on man; with it we cannot compare the treasures which the earth contains or the sea conceals; for liberty, as for honor, we can and ought to risk our lives; and, on for the other hand, captivity is the greatest evil that can befall man.”
– Miguel de Cervantes

“Real freedom is having nothing. I was freer when I didn’t have a cent.”
– Mike Tyson

“Freedom is the oxygen of the soul.”
– Moshe Dayan

“A people which is able to say everything becomes able to do everything.”
– Napoleon I

“For to be free is not merely to cast off one’s chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.”
– Nelson Mandela

“I hope for nothing. I fear nothing. I am free.”
– Nikos Kazantzakis

“Perfect freedom is as necessary to the health and vigor of commerce as it is to the health and vigor of citizenship.”
– Patrick Henry

“Now that she had nothing to lose, she was free.”
– Paulo Coelho

“None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free.”
– Pearl S. Buck

“Freedom is the sure possession of those alone who have the courage to defend it.”
– Pericles

“May we think of freedom, not as the right to do as we please, but as the opportunity to do what is right.”
– Peter Marshall

“In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from.”
– Peter Ustinov

“So far as a person thinks; they are free.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Liberty is slow fruit. It is never cheap; it is made difficult because freedom is the accomplishment and perfectness of man.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The desire of gold is not for gold. It is for the means of freedom and benefit.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do. I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.”
– Robert A. Heinlein

“So free we seem, so fettered we are!”
– Robert Browning

“You have freedom when you’re easy in your harness.”
– Robert Frost

“Freedom lies in being bold.”
– Robert Frost

“He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he be a king.”
– Saint Augustine

“What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.”
– Salman Rushdie

“Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it. Martyrdom is the test.”
– Samuel Johnson

“All theory is against freedom of the will; all experience for it.”
– Samuel Johnson

“People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.”
– Soren Kierkegaard

“How absurd men are! They never use the liberties they have, they demand those they do not have. They have freedom of thought, they demand freedom of speech.”
– Soren Kierkegaard

“I believe in freedom of speech, but I believe we should also have the right to comment on freedom of speech.”
– Stockwell Day

“Liberty is a different kind of pain from prison.”
– T.S. Eliot

“You cannot parcel out freedom in pieces because freedom is all or nothing.”
– Tertullian

“The will of the people is the only legitimate foundation of any government, and to protect its free expression should be our first object.”
– Thomas Jefferson

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