FREEDOM QUOTES IV

quotations about freedom

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The more freedom you give people to do good, the more freedom they have to do bad as well.

TAD WILLIAMS

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Man is born free and is everywhere in chains.

PETER CAREY

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Freedom all solace to man gives
He lives at ease who freely lives.

JOHN BARBOUR

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I am as free as Nature first made man,
Ere the base laws of servitude began,
When wild in woods the noble savage ran.

JOHN DRYDEN

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The importance of our being free to do a particular thing has nothing to do with the question of whether we or the majority are ever likely to make use of that particular possibility. To grant no more freedom than all can exercise would be to misconceive its function completely. The freedom that will be used by only one man in a million may be more important to society and more beneficial to the majority than any freedom that we all use.

FRIEDRICH HAYEK

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The most certain test by which we judge whether a country is really free is the amount of security enjoyed by minorities.

LORD ACTON

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It is like living among snow-capped peaks with clouds wrapped around them and the sun and moon starkly shining over them... Aloneness becomes their companion, their spiritual consort, part of their being. Wherever they go they are alone, whatever they do they are alone. Whether they relate socially with friends or meditate alone ... aloneness is there all the time. That aloneness is freedom, fundamental freedom.

CHOGYAM TRUNGPA

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To know how to free oneself is nothing; the arduous thing is to know what to do with one's freedom.

ANDRE GIDE

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Love of country follows from the exercise of its freedoms, not from pride in its fleets or its armies.

LEWIS H. LAPHAM

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Real freedom lies in wildness, not in civilization.

CHARLES LINDBERGH

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God's work is freedom. Freedom is dear to his heart. He wishes to make man's will free, and at the same time wishes it to be pure, majestic, and holy.

E. H. CHAPIN

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I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.

SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

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The whole world yearns after freedom, yet each creature is in love with his chains.

SRI AUROBINDO

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I've read and heard a lot of unbelievable stuff about those times when people lived in freedom -- that is, in disorganized wildness.

YEVGENY ZAMYATIN

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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

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We ... would rather die on our feet than live on our knees.

FRANKLIN DELANO ROOSEVELT

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Once a man has tasted freedom, he will never be content to be a slave.

WALT DISNEY

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The unity of all who dwell in freedom is their only sure defense.

DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER

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For those who have it, freedom is like oxygen, it's something we just have. Many will not understand just how precious either is until they are at risk of losing it.

JOHN DUTCHER

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For every man who lives without freedom, the rest of us must face the guilt.

LILLIAN HELLMAN

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