Quotes on Freedom

Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.

To me, David Astor was a freedom fighter. To me, he wasn't just a journalist; he was a freedom fighter.

You have spent many lives and much treasure to bring freedom to many lands that were reluctant to receive it. And here you have a people who won it by themselves and need only the help to preserve it.

The only way that has ever been discovered to have a lot of people cooperate together voluntarily is through the free market. And that's why it's so essential to preserving individual freedom.

The most important single central fact about a free market is that no exchange takes place unless both parties benefit.

In short, there are certain fundamental requisites for wise and resolute democratic leadership. It must build on hope, not on fear; on honesty, not on falsehood; on justice, not on injustice; on public tranquility, not on violence; on freedom, not on enslavement.

Coercion, after all, merely captures man. Freedom captivates him.

Ending poverty calls for humility, honesty, freedom from ideology and refusal to accept cruel simplicities about anyone's human potential. It requires listening to the wisdom and cutting the nonsense from both the Right and the Left.

We know that freedom has many dimensions. It is the right of the man who tills the land to own the land; the right of the workers to join together to seek better conditions of labor; the right of businessmen to use ingenuity and foresight to produce and distribute without arbitrary interference in a truly competitive economy.

A man can be himself only so long as he is alone; and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom; for it is only when he is alone that he is really free.

Those who think of freedom in this country as one long, broad path leading ever onward and upward are dead damned wrong.

Harriet Tubman and Sojourner Truth were slaves by birth, freedom fighters by temperament.

If we are free from attachment, we can easily recognize ourselves in other people, in different forms of manifestation, and then we don't have to suffer.

It's not the voting that's democracy; it's the counting.

The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom.

Liberty is a word which, according as it is used, comprehends the most good and the most evil of any in the world. Justly understood it is sacred next to those which we appropriate in divine adoration; but in the mouths of some it means anything, which enervate a necessary government; excite a jealousy of the rulers who are our own choice, and keep society in confusion for want of a power sufficiently concentered to promote good.

The ballot is stronger than the bullet.

Freedom always deals with 'the possible'; this gives freedom its great flexibility, its fascination, and its dangers.

Freedom is the alone unoriginated birthright of man, and belongs to him by force of his humanity; and is independence on the will and co-action of every other in so far as this consists with every other person's freedom.

I wanted to get far away from those who believed in cruelty, so then I went to France, a land of true freedom, democracy, equality and fraternity.

It's very important that when you have a designer like Marc Jacobs, who is a genius, you give him complete freedom.