Freedom Quotes

Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.

Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.

The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.

If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.

Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same.

It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.

Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest.

None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are 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.

Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.

Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.

Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility. For the person who is unwilling to grow up, the person who does not want to carry his own weight, this is a frightening prospect.

Freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought.

I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do. I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.

Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.

A hero is someone who understands the responsibility that comes with his freedom.

We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.

Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery, none but ourselves can free our minds!

Freedom is the oxygen of the soul.