Quotes about Freedom
Poetry is the gate through which I enter the land of enchantment. Once inside the flaming wall, my limitations fall from me, and my spirit is free.
- Helen Keller
Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.
- Frederick Douglass
I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.
- John Adams
The only way we'll get freedom for ourselves is to identify ourselves with every oppressed people in the world. We are blood brothers to the people of Brazil, Venezuela, Haiti, Cuba -- yes Cuba too.
- Malcolm X
If the book be false in its facts, disprove them; if false in its reasoning, refute it. But, for God's sake, let us freely hear both sides, if we choose.
- Thomas Jefferson
If our Founding Fathers wanted us to care about the rest of the world, they wouldn't have declared their independence from it.
- Stephen Colbert
There will never be a really free and enlightened state until the state comes to recognize the individual as a higher and independent power, from which all its own power and authority are derived.
- Henry David Thoreau
With freedom goes responsibility, a responsibility that can only be met by the individual himself.
- Ronald Reagan
Coersion, after all, merely captures man. Freedom captivates him.
- Ronald Reagan
Socialism is an attack on the right to breathe freely. No socialist system can be established without a political police.
- Winston Churchill
You will in due season find your property is less valuable, and your freedom less complete.
- Benjamin Disraeli
Everyone must act according to the dictates of his own reason.
- Thomas Jefferson