Freedom Quotes And Sayings

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“Here is my advice as we begin the century that will lead to 2081.  First, guard the freedom of ideas at all costs.  Be alert that dictators have always played on the natural human tendency to blame others and to oversimplify.  And don’t regard yourself as a guardian of freedom unless you respect and preserve the rights of people you disagree with to free, public, unhampered expression.”
– Gerard K. O’Neill

“Most people want security in this world, not liberty.”
– H.L. Mencken

“Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have.”
– Harry Emerson Fosdick

“Liberty is the possibility of doubting, of making a mistake,… of searching and experimenting,… of saying No to any authority – literary, artistic, philosophical, religious, social, and even political.”
– Ignazio Silone

“I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.”
– James Madison

“Man is condemned to be free.”
– Jean-Paul Sartre

“Freedom is that instant between when someone tells you to do something and when you decide how to respond.”
– Jeffrey Borenstein

“The truth shall make you free.”
– Jesus, John 8:31

“There are two kinds of freedom: one is the freedom from something, which is a reaction; and the other is not a reaction, it is “being free.”
– Jiddu Krishnamurti

“Without total freedom, every perception, every objective regard, is twisted. It is only the man who is totally free who can look and understand immediately. Freedom implies really, doesn’t it, the total emptying of the mind. Completely to empty the whole content of the mind–that is real freedom. Freedom is not mere revolt from circumstances, which again breeds other circumstances, other environmental influences, which enslave the mind. We are talking about a freedom that comes naturally, easily, unasked for, when the mind is capable of functioning at its highest level.”
– Jiddu Krishnamurti

“Because we are free we can never be indifferent to the fate of freedom elsewhere. Our moral sense dictates a clearcut preference for these societies which share with us an abiding respect for individual human rights. We do not seek to intimidate, but it is clear that a world which others can dominate with impunity would be inhospitable to decency and a threat to the well-being of all people.”
– Jimmy Carter

“Individual liberty is individual power, and as the power of a community is a mass compounded of individual powers, the nation which enjoys the most freedom must necessarily be in proportion to its numbers the most powerful nation.”
– John Quincy Adams

“True freedom is tolerant. It gives people the right to live and think in new ways.”
– John Twelve Hawks

“None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but licence.”
– John Milton

“Let freedom never perish in your hands.”
– Joseph Addison

“Freedom’s just another word for nothing left to lose.”
– Kris Kristofferson

“The free man is he who does not fear to go to the end of his thought.”
– Leon Blum

“For every man who lives without freedom, the rest of us must face the guilt.”
– Lillian Hellman

“The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding.”
– Louis D. Brandeis

“Freedom is not enough.”
– Lyndon B. Johnson

“Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err.”
– Mahatma Gandhi

“You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind.”
– Mahatma Ghandi

“You can’t separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.”
– Malcolm X

“Never depend upon institutions or government to solve any problem. All social movements are founded by, guided by, motivated and seen through by the passion of individuals.”
– Margaret Mead

“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.”
– Margaret Mead

“It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either.”
– Mark Twain

“In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.”
– Martin Luther King, Jr.

“It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can stop him from lynching me, and I think that’s pretty important.”
– Martin Luther King, Jr.

“When we let freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God’s children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual, ‘Free at last! free at last! Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!”
– Martin Luther King, Jr.

“The worst way to defend our freedom is to let our leaders start taking away our freedoms! It is exactly during times like these [a national crisis] that we need more freedom of speech, a strong and critical press, and a citizenry that is not afraid to stand up and say that the emperor has no clothes.”
– Michael Moore

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