Quotes on Freedom

If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.

Freedom had been hunted round the globe; reason was considered as rebellion; and the slavery of fear had made men afraid to think. But such is the irresistible nature of truth, that all it asks, and all it wants, is the liberty of appearing.

In a democracy, dissent is an act of faith.

I'll tell you what freedom is to me: no fear. I mean really, no fear!

Freedom to learn is the first necessity of guaranteeing that man himself shall be self reliant enough to be free.

True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.

A good politician is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar.

True emancipation begins neither at the polls nor in the courts. It begins in woman's soul.

Intellectual freedom is the only guarantee of a scientific - democratic approach to politics, economic development, and culture.

Whatever is not forbidden is permitted.

Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel.

It requires an effort of logical acrobatics to believe that carnage of innocents is an instrument for freedom and elections are a symbol of deception and repression!

In a free society, one does not have to deal with those who are irrational. One is free to avoid them.

Service cannot be expected from a friend in service; let him be a freeman who wishes to be my master.

Democracy is four wolves and a sheep voting on dinner.

The right to freedom being the gift of God, it is not in the power of man to alienate this gift and voluntarily become a slave.

You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.

Don't ever forget that you're a citizen of this world, and there are things you can do to lift the human spirit, things that are easy, things that are free, things that you can do every day: civility, respect, kindness, character.

Human rights, of course, must include the right to religious freedom, understood as the expression of a dimension that is at once individual and communitarian - a vision that brings out the unity of the person while clearly distinguishing between the dimension of the citizen and that of the believer.

Wealth is a tool of freedom, but the pursuit of wealth is the way to slavery.

People have more freedom to bring more of their personal qualities into the role they play once they have established themselves and their competence is no longer in question. But this is always within limits.