You must love in such a way that the person you love feels free.
Thich Nhat HanhAll the great things are simple and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
Winston ChurchillA friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.
Jim MorrisonSome books leave us free and some books make us free.
Ralph Waldo EmersonThose who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace.
BuddhaBe a lamp unto yourself. Work out your liberation with diligence.
BuddhaNone but ourselves can free our minds.
Bob MarleyAs I would not be a slave so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
Abraham LincolnBooks are like imprisoned souls, till someone takes them down from a shelf and frees them.
Samuel ButlerEmancipate yourselves from mental slavery, none but ourselves can free our minds!
Bob MarleyThe best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.
Abraham LincolnFreedom is never dear at any price. It is the breath of life. What would a man not pay for living?
Mahatma GandhiWhere liberty is, there is my country.
Benjamin FranklinFreedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.
Mahatma GandhiWith freedom, books, flowers, and the moon, who could not be happy?
Oscar WildeFor thought is a bird of space, that in a cage of words may indeed unfold its wings but cannot fly.
Kahlil GibranMy mother raised me, and then freed me.
Maya AngelouLife without liberty is like a body without spirit.
Kahlil GibranWrong is wrong only when you are at liberty to choose.
Rabindranath TagoreNo one loses anyone, because no one owns anyone. That is the true experience of freedom: having the most important thing in the world without owning it.
Paulo CoelhoI have found both freedom and safety in my madness; the freedom of loneliness and the safety from being understood, for those who understand us enslave something in us.
Kahlil GibranAll compromise is based on give and take, but there can be no give and take on fundamentals. Any compromise on mere fundamentals is a surrender. For it is all give and no take.
Mahatma GandhiI know of no country in which there is so little independence of mind and real freedom of discussion as in America.
Alexis de TocquevilleI believe that in every country the people themselves are more peaceably and liberally inclined than their governments.
Franklin D. RooseveltFreedom itself was attacked this morning by a faceless coward, and freedom will be defended.
George W. BushWe have to believe in free-will. We've got no choice.
Isaac Bashevis SingerIt is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.
Mark TwainTo say that any people are not fit for freedom is to make poverty their choice, and to say they had rather be loaded with taxes than not.
Thomas PaineI am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination.
Albert EinsteinFirearms are second only to the Constitution in importance, they are the peoples' liberty's teeth.
George WashingtonThe shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's, for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty. Plainly, the sheep and the wolf are not agreed upon a definition of liberty.
Abraham LincolnFreedom from the desire for an answer is essential to the understanding of a problem.
Jiddu KrishnamurtiYou can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind.
Mahatma GandhiBut 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.
Edmund BurkeThere's something liberating about not pretending. Dare to embarrass yourself. Risk.
Drew BarrymoreAmericans admire a people who can scratch a desert and produce a garden. The Israelis have shown qualities that Americans identify with: guts, patriotism, idealism, a passion for freedom. I have seen it. I know. I believe that.
Richard M. NixonDesire is storm, greed is whirlpool, pride is precipice, attachment is avalanche, ego is volcano. Discard desire and you are liberated.
Sai BabaFreedom can occur only through education.
Friedrich SchillerThe history of free men is never really written by chance, but by choice, their choice!
Dwight D. EisenhowerFreedom in general may be defined as the absence of obstacles to the realization of desires.
Bertrand RussellEducation is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom.
George Washington CarverI want to see freedom and equality through my eyes and your eyes, Coretta Scott King. I opened my mouth to the lord and I won't turn back no!
Maya AngelouI would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty, than those attending too small a degree of it.
Thomas JeffersonThe basis of a democratic state is liberty.
AristotleIt 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.
James MadisonAny people anywhere being inclined and having the power have the right to rise up and shake off the existing government and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable - a most sacred right - a right which we hope and believe is to liberate the world.
Abraham LincolnUnderlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.
Milton FriedmanThey who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
Benjamin FranklinThe price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty.
Robert Louis StevensonHistory does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.
Dwight D. EisenhowerThe assertion that "all men are created equal" was of no practical use in effecting our separation from Great Britain, and it was placed in the Declaration not for that, but for future use.
Abraham LincolnHe that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression, for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.
Thomas PaineAmerica was established not to create wealth, but to realize a vision, to realize an ideal - to discover and maintain liberty among men.
Woodrow WilsonEmancipation from the bondage of the soil is no freedom for the tree.
Rabindranath TagoreI owned the world that hour, as I rode over it. Free of the earth, free of the mountains, free of the clouds, but how inseparably I was bound to them.
Charles LindberghIn 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. KennedyDeath is the liberator of him whom freedom cannot release, the physician of him whom medicine cannot cure, and the comforter of him whom time cannot console.
Charles Caleb ColtonIf liberty and equality as is thought by some are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost.
AristotleI am involved in a freedom ride protesting the loss of the minority rights belonging to the few remaining earthbound stars. All we demanded was our right to twinkle.
Marilyn MonroeOur defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes liberty as a heritage of all men in all lands everywhere. Destroy this spirit and you have planted the seeds of despotism around your own doors.
Abraham LincolnMen regard it as their right to return evil for evil, and if they cannot feel they have lost their liberty.
AristotleThe loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or imagined, from abroad.
James MadisonNever do anything against conscience even if the state demands it.
Albert EinsteinTo deprive a man of his natural liberty and to deny to him the ordinary amenities of life is worse then starving the body, it is starvation of the soul the dweller in the body.
Mahatma GandhiEverybody likes to go their own way - to choose their own time and manner of devotion.
Jane AustenDemocracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects, because men are equally free they claim to be absolutely equal.
AristotleWe gain freedom when we have paid the full price.
Rabindranath TagoreLiberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.
George WashingtonIf you want total security go to prison. There you're fed, clothed, given medical care, and so on. The only thing lacking... is freedom.
Dwight D. EisenhowerIf the freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent, we may be led like sheep to the slaughter.
George WashingtonA hero is someone who understands the responsibility that comes with his freedom.
Bob DylanFreedom from effort in the present merely means that there has been effort stored up in the past.
Theodore RooseveltThere are days when solitude is a heady wine that intoxicates you with freedom, others when it is a bitter tonic, and still others when it is a poison that makes you beat your head against the wall.
Sidonie Gabrielle ColetteTrue individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.
Franklin D. RooseveltA free America... means just this: individual freedom for all, rich or poor, or else this system of government we call democracy is only an expedient to enslave man to the machine and make him like it.
Frank Lloyd WrightConformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.
John F. KennedyDon't interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be maintained for it is the only safeguard of our liberties.
Abraham LincolnWe have to hate our immediate predecessors to get free of their authority.
David Herbert LawrenceViolent means will give violent freedom. That would be a menace to the world and to India herself.
Mahatma GandhiWe are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought.
Bertrand RussellSome birds are not meant to be caged, that’s all. Their feathers are too bright, their songs too sweet and wild. So you let them go, or when you open the cage to feed them they somehow fly out past you. And the part of you that knows it was wrong to imprison them in the first place rejoices, but still, the place where you live is that much more drab and empty for their departure.
Stephen KingThere are 4 billion cell phones in use today. Many of them are in the hands of market vendors rickshaw drivers and others who've historically lacked access to education and opportunity. Information networks have become a great leveler and we should use them together to help lift people out of poverty and give them a freedom from want.
Hillary ClintonIf I am elected President of these United States I will work with all my energy and soul to restore that America to lift our eyes to a better future. That future is our destiny. That future is out there. It is waiting for us. Our children deserve it our nation depends upon it the peace and freedom of the world require it.
Mitt RomneyFor more than four decades the Libyan people have been ruled by a tyrant - Moammar Gaddafi. He has denied his people freedom exploited their wealth murdered opponents at home and abroad and terrorized innocent people around the world - including Americans who were killed by Libyan agents.
Barack ObamaIn South Africa we could not have achieved our freedom and just peace without the help of people around the world who through the use of non-violent means such as boycotts and divestment encouraged their governments and other corporate actors to reverse decades-long support for the Apartheid regime.
Desmond TutuWe the People recognize that we have responsibilities as well as rights, that our destinies are bound together, that a freedom which only asks what's in it for me a freedom without a commitment to others a freedom without love or charity or duty or patriotism is unworthy of our founding ideals and those who died in their defense.
Barack ObamaThe family is the test of freedom, because the family is the only thing that the free man makes for himself and by himself.
Gilbert K. ChestertonPersonal identity seems like it's just such an American archetype from Holly Golightly re-inventing herself in 'Breakfast At Tiffany's' to Jay Gatsby in 'The Great Gatsby.' It seems like the sort of archetypal American issue. If you're given the freedom to be anything or be anyone what do you do with it?
Chuck PalahniukI was interested by the idea that artists working in a totalitarian dictatorship or tsarist autocracy are secretly and slightly shamefully envied by artists who work in freedom. They have the gratification of intense interest: the authorities want to put them in jail while there are younger readers for whom what they write is pure oxygen.
Tom StoppardI am just absolutely convinced that the best formula for giving us peace and preserving the American way of life is freedom limited government and minding our own business overseas.
Ron PaulAt what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer if it ever reach us it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen we must live through all time or die by suicide.
Abraham LincolnBack a hundred years ago, especially around Woodrow Wilson, what happened in this country is we took freedom and we chopped it into pieces.
Ron Paul