938 private quotes tagged freedom

“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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“Money won't create success, the freedom to make it will.” — Nelson Mandela

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“All theory is against freedom of the will; all experience for it.” — Samuel Johnson

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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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“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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“Freedom lies in being bold.” — Robert Frost

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“Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.” — Albert Camus

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“Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better.” — Albert Camus

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“Freedom is hammered out on the anvil of discussion, dissent, and debate.” — Hubert H. Humphrey

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“Well, if crime fighters fight crime and fire fighters fight fire, what do freedom fighters fight? They never mention that part to us, do they?” — George Carlin

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

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“Freedom in art, freedom in society, this is the double goal towards which all consistent and logical minds must strive.” — Victor Hugo

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

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“I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments by those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.” — James Madison

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“Freedom is never dear at any price. It is the breath of life. What would a man not pay for living?” — Mahatma Gandhi

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“The path we have chosen for the present is full of hazards, as all paths are. The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission.” — John F. Kennedy

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“Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride.” — Friedrich Nietzsche

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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

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“True 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. Roosevelt

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“Art is the daughter of freedom.” — Friedrich Schiller

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“It 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 Twain

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“War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.” — George Orwell

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“The sweltering summer of the Negro's legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality.” — Martin Luther King, Jr.

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“We must be willing to pay a price for freedom.” — H. L. Mencken

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“Freedom prospers when religion is vibrant and the rule of law under God is acknowledged.” — Ronald Reagan

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