Freedom

Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech. Written when he was 16.

- Benjamin Franklin Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Man is free at the moment he wishes to be.

- Francois Voltaire Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Our liberty depends on freedom of the press, And that cannot be limited without being lost.

- Thomas Jefferson Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

A free society is a place where it's safe to be unpopular.

- Adlai Ewing Stevenson Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

The basic test of freedom is perhaps less in what we are free to do than in what we are free not to do.

- Eric Hoffer Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

It is those moral and spiritual qualities which rise alone in free men, which will fulfill the meaning of the word American. And with them will come centuries of further greatness to our country.

- Herbert Clark Hoover Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Peril, loneliness, an uncertain future, are not oppressive evils, so long as the frame is healthy and the faculties are employed so long, especially, as Liberty lends us her wings, and Hope guides us by her star.

- Charlotte Brontë Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Set me free from evil passions, and heal my heart of all inordinate affections that being inwardly cured and thoroughly cleansed, I may be made fit to love, courageous to suffer, steady to persevere.

- Thomas p Kempis Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

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 Saavedra Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

A people which is able to say everything becomes able to do everything.

- Napoléon Bonaparte Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it.

- Malcolm X Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

There are always risks in freedom. The only risk in bondage is breaking free.

- Gita Bellin Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Freedom prospers when religion is vibrant and the rule of law under God is acknowledged.

- Ronald Wilson Reagan Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

We must face the fact that the preservation of individual freedom is incompatible with a full satisfaction of our views of distributive justice.

- F.A. Hayek Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

The very aim and end of our institutions is just this that we may thing what we like and say what we think.

- Oliver Wendell Holmes Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Only very slowly and late have men come to realize that unless freedom is universal it is only extended privilege.

- Christopher Hill Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

What we want is not freedom but its appearances. It is for these simulacra that man has always striven. And since freedom, as has been said, is no more than a sensation, what difference is there between being free and believing ourselves free

- Emile Cioran Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Freedom is only granted us that obedience may be more perfect.

- John Ruskin Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

For what avail the plough or sail, Or land or life, if freedom fail

- Ralph Emerson Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

When you have robbed a man of everything, hes no longer in your power. He is free again.

- Alexander Solzhenitsyn Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

They have exiled me now from their society and I am pleased, because humanity does not exile except the one whose noble spirit rebels against despotism and oppression. He who does not prefer exile to slavery is not free by any measure of freedom, truth and duty.

- Kahlil Gibran Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

A splendid storehouse of integrity and freedom has been bequeathed to us by our forefathers. In this day of confusion, of peril to liberty, our high duty is to see that this storehouse is not robbed of its contents.

- Herbert Clark Hoover Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.

- George Orwell Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

The first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an open forum.

- Adlai Stevenson Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

You have freedom when you're easy in your harness.

- Robert Frost Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes