Freedom Quotes

When we lose the right to be different, we lose the privilege to be free.

Freedom means you are unobstructed in living your life as you choose. Anything less is a form of slavery.

The desire of gold is not for gold. It is for the means of freedom and benefit.

May we think of freedom, not as the right to do as we please, but as the opportunity to do what is right.

Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country.

Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.

Real freedom is having nothing. I was freer when I didn't have a cent.

There is no such thing as a little freedom. Either you are all free, or you are not free.

I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world.

Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally destructive.

We must be willing to pay a price for freedom.

Liberty has never come from Government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of governmental power, not the increase of it.

Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage's whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free from men.

No man is good enough to be another's master.

Freedom is from within.

But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.

Freedom means the opportunity to be what we never thought we would be.

Liberty is not the power of doing what we like, but the right to do what we ought.

As human beings, we are endowed with freedom of choice, and we cannot shuffle off our responsibility upon the shoulders of God or nature. We must shoulder it ourselves. It is our responsibility.

'Freedom from fear' could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights.