938 private quotes tagged freedom

“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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“Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.” — Thomas Jefferson

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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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“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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“Our single most important challenge is therefore to help establish a social order in which the freedom of the individual will truly mean the freedom of the individual.” — Nelson Mandela

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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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“Let freedom reign. The sun never set on so glorious a human achievement.” — Nelson Mandela

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“If society fits you comfortably enough, you call it freedom.” — Robert Frost

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