Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride.
Friedrich Nietzsche – Reason, Freedom
Freedom is not being a slave to any circumstance, to any constraint, to any chance; it means compelling Fortune to enter the lists on equal terms.
Seneca – Freedom
Freedom would be meaningless without security in the home and in the streets.
Nelson Mandela – Freedom
Freedom and not servitude is the cure of anarchy; as religion, and not atheism, is the true remedy of superstition.
Freedom – Edmund Burke
Because we are free we can never be indifferent to the fate of freedom elsewhere. Our moral sense dictates a clearcut preference for these societies which share with us an abiding respect for individual human rights. We do not seek to intimidate, but it is clear that a world which others can dominate with impunity would be inhospitable to decency and a threat to the well-being of all people.
Jimmy Carter – Fate of freedom
The best way to enhance freedom in other lands is to demonstrate here that our democratic system is worthy of emulation.
Jimmy Carter – enhance freedom
Liberty, then, about which so many volumes have been written is, when accurately defined, only the power of acting.
Voltaire – Freedom
The human race is a monotonous affair. Most people spend the greatest part of their time working in order to live, and what little freedom remains so fills them with fear that they seek out any and every means to be rid of it.
Goethe – Humanity, Freedom
This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.
Goethe – Wisdom, freedom
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 – Freedom of Thought
The magistrates are the ministers for the laws, the judges their interpreters, the rest of us are servants of the law, that we all may be free.
Cicero – Society, Freedom
Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with keener fangs than freedom never endangered.
Cicero – Freedom
Unless a man has talents to make something of himself, freedom is an irksome burden. Of what avail is freedom to choose if the self be ineffectual? We join a mass movement to escape individual responsibility, or, in the words of the ardent young Nazi, "to be free from freedom."
Eric Hoffer – Talent, Freedom
Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with keener fangs than freedom never endangered.
Marcus Tulius Cicero – Freedom
Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in his never wholly successful attempts to liberate himself from necessity.
