Quotes on Freedom

To be true to one's own freedom is, in essence, to honor and respect the freedom of all others.

A nation may lose its liberties in a day and not miss them in a century.

Every human has four endowments - self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom... The power to choose, to respond, to change.

No one can terrorize a whole nation, unless we are all his accomplices.

Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts.

Freedom would be meaningless without security in the home and in the streets.

The American dream is not that every man must be level with every other man. The American dream is that every man must be free to become whatever God intends he should become.

The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask.

The novel does not seek to establish a privileged language but it insists upon the freedom to portray and analyze the struggle between the different contestants for such privileges.

My white skin disgusts me. My passport disgusts me. They are the marks of an insufferable privilege bought at the price of others' agony. If I could peel myself inside out I would be glad. If I could become part of the oppressed I would be free.

It does not take a majority to prevail... but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men.

A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.

The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.

There is always a well-known solution to every human problem - neat, plausible, and wrong.

Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.

Society honors its living conformists and its dead troublemakers.

Freedom is the right to question and change the established way of doing things. It is the continuing revolution of the marketplace. It is the understanding that allows us to recognize shortcomings and seek solutions. It is the right to put forth an idea, scoffed at by the experts, and watch it catch fire among the people. It is the right to follow your dream, or stick to your conscience even if you're the only one in a sea of doubters.

Once people who have been deprived of basic freedom taste a little of it, they want all of it.

We've been blessed with the opportunity to stand for something - for liberty and freedom and fairness. And these are things worth fighting for, worth devoting our lives to.

If this spirit shall ever be so far debased, as to tolerate a law not obligatory on the legislature, as well as on the people, the people will be prepared to tolerate any thing but liberty.

No free country has ever been without Parties, which are a natural offspring of freedom.