Freedom Quotes - Page 7

• Elections belong to the people. It's their decision. If they decide to turn their back on the fire and burn their behinds, then they will just have to sit on their blisters.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Fire, Democracies Have, People

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• Freedom begins the moment you realize someone else has been writing your story and it's time you took the pen from his hand and started writing it yourself.

  Bill Moyers

  Writing, Hands, Stories

  "Bill Moyers: A Pillar of Democracy Is Under Attack". www.thenation.com. January 17, 2007.

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• No one is truly free, they are a slave to wealth, fortune, the law, or other people restraining them from acting according to their will.

  Euripides

  Law, People, Acting

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• Laws alone can not secure freedom of expression; in order that every man present his views without penalty there must be spirit of tolerance in the entire population.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Motivational, Men

  Albert Einstein (2011). “Out of My Later Years: The Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words”, p.14, Open Road Media

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• We must be willing to pay a price for freedom.

  H. L. Mencken

  Pay, Payment, Willing

  H. L. MENCKEN (1924). “PREJUDICES FOURTH SERIES”

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  Hate is too great a burden to bear. It injures the hater more than it injures the hated.

  Coretta Scott King

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Forgiveness

  "Understanding Cultural Diversity in Today's Complex World". Book by Leo Parvis, p. 54, 2010.

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• The patriot's blood is the seed of Freedom's tree.

  Thomas Campbell

  Uplifting, Memorial Day, 4th Of July

  Thomas Campbell, J. Logie Robertson (1884). “The Complete Poetical Works of Thomas Campbell”, p.215, Ardent Media

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• Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!

  Patrick Henry

  Death, Sweet, Business

  Speech in Virginia Convention, Richmond, Va., 23 Mar. 1775.

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• The really important kind of freedom involves...being able truly to care about other people...

  David Foster

  Inspirational, Sacrifice, People

  David Foster Wallace’s Commencement Address at Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio, www.1843magazine.com. September 18, 2008.

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• Freedom is indivisible, and when one man is enslaved, all are not free.

  John F. Kennedy

  Men, Liberty, West Berlin

  Ich bin ein Berliner (I am a 'Berliner'), delivered 26 June 1963, West Berlin

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• The best government is that which teaches us to govern ourselves.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Government, History, Political

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2015). “Maxims and Reflections”, p.99, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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• Well, if crime fighters fight crime and fire fighters fight fire, what do freedom fighters fight?

  George Carlin

  Funny, Peace, Sarcasm

  "George Carlin: Doin' It Again", www.imdb.com. 1990.

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• To be unafraid of the judgement of others is the greatest freedom you can have.

  Timothy Shriver

  Encouraging, Negative People, Judgement

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• Liberty is one of the most precious gifts which heaven has bestowed on man; with it we cannot compare the treasures which the earth contains or the sea conceals; for liberty, as for honor, we can and ought to risk our lives; and, on for the other hand, captivity is the greatest evil that can befall man.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Men, Hands, Sea

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• The truth will set you free. But not until it is finished with you.

  David Foster Wallace

  Inspirational, Truth, Novelists

  "Infinite Jest". Book by David Foster Wallace, February 1, 1996.

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• The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Encouragement, Business, Yoga

  "The Power of Purpose: Find Meaning, Live Longer, Better". Book by Richard Leider, p. 35., 2010.

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• We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom. And now, as in no other age, we seek it because we have been warned, by the power of modern weapons, that peace may be the only climate possible for human life itself.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Peace, War, Knowing

  Second Inaugural Address, en.wikisource.org. January 21, 1957.

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• Without Freedom of thought there can be no such thing as wisdom;and no such thing as public liberty, without freedom of speech.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Wisdom, Patriotic, Political

  Benjamin Franklin (2016). “Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin: new annotated edition”, p.28, MarcoPolo

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• As long as men are free to ask what they must, free to say what they think, free to think what they will, freedom can never be lost and science can never regress.

  Marcel Proust

  Science, Men, Thinking

  "J. Robert Oppenheimer" by L. Barnett, in Life, Vol. 7, No. 9 (p. 58), October 24, 1949.

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• The First Amendment is often inconvenient. But that is besides the point. Inconvenience does not absolve the government of its obligation to tolerate speech.

  Anthony Kennedy

  Government, Doe, Speech

  International Society for Krishna Consciousness v. Lee, 505 U.S. 672, caselaw.lp.findlaw.com. June 26, 1992.

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• The relative freedom which we enjoy depends of public opinion. The law is no protection. Governments make laws, but whether they are carried out, and how the police behave, depends on the general temper in the country. If large numbers of people are interested in freedom of speech, there will be freedom of speech, even if the law forbids it; if public opinion is sluggish, inconvenient minorities will be persecuted, even if laws exist to protect them.

  George Orwell

  Country, Law, Numbers

  George Orwell (2016). “Fifty Essays (George Orwell) (Literary Thoughts Edition)”, p.501, epubli

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• It is easy to believe in freedom of speech for those with whom we agree.

  Leo McKern

  Believe, Speech, Easy

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• Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it.

  Malcolm X

  Motivational, Patriotic, Equality

  "Malcolm X Speaks: Selected Speeches and Statements". Book edited by George Breitman, p. 111, 1965.

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• To freemen, threats are impotent.
  [Lat., Nulla enim minantis auctoritas apud liberos est.]

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Power, Threat, Freeman

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• In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I do not shrink from this responsibility - I welcome it.

  John F. Kennedy

  Responsibility, Long, History

  Inaugural Address, 20 Jan. 1961

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