Quotes about Freedom
Man is both strong and weak, both free and bound, both blind and far-seeing. He stands at the juncture of nature and spirit; and is involved in both freedom and necessity.
- Reinhold Niebuhr
Everyone asks for freedom for himself, The man free love, the businessman free trade, The writer and talker free speech and free press.
- Robert Frost
Thank God you can flee, can escape from that massy five-foot-thick maggot-cheesy solidarity which overlays the earth, in which men and women in couples are ranked like ninepins.
- William Faulkner
I believe the declaration that 'all men are created equal' is the great fundamental principle upon which our free institutions rest.
- Abraham Lincoln
Against us are all timid men who prefer the calm of despotism to the boisterous sea of liberty We are likely to preserve the liberty we have obtained only by unremitting labors and perils.
- Thomas Jefferson
The equal rights of man and the happiness of every individual are now acknowledged to be the only legitimate objects of government.
- Thomas Jefferson
We maintain therefore that in matters of Religion, no man's right is abridged by the institution of Civil Society, and that Religion is wholly exempt from its cognizance.
- James Madison
Men are free when they belong to a living, organic, believing community, active in fulfilling some unfulfilled, perhaps unrealized purpose.
- DH Lawrence
It's a blessing that South Africa has a man like Nelson Mandela.
- Desmond Tutu
The gains in education are never really lost. Books may be burned and cities sacked, but truth, like the yearning for freedom, lives in the hearts of humble men.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
Only the person who risks is truly free. A man's conquest of himself dwarfs the conquest of Mt. Everest.
- Norman Vincent Peale
You want to know if the heart of a man or a woman can contain enough love for more than one person? ... I think it's perfectly possible as long as one of those people doesn't turn into ... a Zahir.
- Paulo Coelho