Freedom Quotes

The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave.

What is ominous is the ease with which some people go from saying that they don't like something to saying that the government should forbid it. When you go down that road, don't expect freedom to survive very long.

You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on having both at once.

There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.

Liberty must be limited in order to be possessed.

The only sure bulwark of continuing liberty is a government strong enough to protect the interests of the people, and a people strong enough and well enough informed to maintain its sovereign control over the goverment.

Perfect freedom is as necessary to the health and vigor of commerce as it is to the health and vigor of citizenship.

Human beings crave freedom at their core.

Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure.

Freedom is man's capacity to take a hand in his own development. It is our capacity to mold ourselves.

The only freedom which deserves the name is that of pursuing our own good, in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs, or impede their efforts to obtain it.

You can only be free if I am free.

Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.

We do not commonly see in a tax a diminution of freedom, and yet it clearly is one.

All free men, wherever they may live, are citizens of Berlin. And therefore, as a free man, I take pride in the words 'Ich bin ein Berliner!'

I think I have a right to live my life the way I like.

Freedom rings where opinions clash.

The liberty of the individual is a necessary postulate of human progress.

It is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad.

Liberation is not deliverance.