938 private quotes tagged freedom

“Where globalization means, as it so often does, that the rich and powerful now have new means to further enrich and empower themselves at the cost of the poorer and weaker, we have a responsibility to protest in the name of universal freedom.” — Nelson Mandela

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“Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty - his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.” — Aldous Huxley

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“Freedom comes only to those who no longer ask of life that it shall yield them any of those personal goods that are subject to the mutations of time.” — Bertrand Russell

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“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.” — Franklin D. Roosevelt

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“I love the freedom of movement that my phone gives me. That has definitely transformed my life.” — Richard Branson

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“Whenever men take the law into their own hands, the loser is the law. And when the law loses, freedom languishes.” — Robert Kennedy

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“A free press can, of course, be good or bad, but, most certainly without freedom, the press will never be anything but bad.” — Albert Camus

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“One certain effect of war is to diminish freedom of expression.” — Howard Zinn

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“The intense happiness of our union is derived in a high degree from the perfect freedom with which we each follow and declare our own impressions.” — George Eliot

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“B-----d Freedom waves Her fustian flag in mockery over slaves.” — Thomas Moore

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“Liberals, it has been said, are generous with other peoples' money, except when it comes to questions of national survival when they prefer to be generous with other people's freedom and security.” — William F. Buckley, Jr.

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“Freedom is a possession of inestimable value.” — Marcus Tullius Cicero

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“Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure.” — Bertrand Russell

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“What then is freedom? The power to live as one wishes.” — Marcus Tullius Cicero

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“Freedom is the most contagious virus known to man.” — Hubert H. Humphrey

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“No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.” — James Madison

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“I am a lover of truth, a worshipper of freedom, a celebrant at the altar of language and purity and tolerance.” — Stephen Fry

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“Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.” — Rabindranath Tagore

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“The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency.” — Aldous Huxley

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“To 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 Paine

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“There is nothing wrong with America that faith, love of freedom, intelligence, and energy of her citizens cannot cure.” — Dwight D. Eisenhower

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“Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others.” — Albert Camus

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“We gain freedom when we have paid the full price.” — Rabindranath Tagore

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“Without culture, and the relative freedom it implies, society, even when perfect, is but a jungle. This is why any authentic creation is a gift to the future.” — Albert Camus

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“Freedom in general may be defined as the absence of obstacles to the realization of desires.” — Bertrand Russell

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