Let us know what your favourite FREEDOM quote is, in the comments below.“That would make it easy for Amara. When you go down that road, don’t expect freedom to survive very long. What is ominous is the ease with which some people go from saying that they don’t like something to saying that the government should forbid it. The truth – that love is the ultimate and the highest goal to which man can aspire.įreedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear. – Patrick Henry A thought transfixed me: for the first time in my life, I saw the truth as it is set into song by so many poets, proclaimed as the final wisdom by so many thinkers. The liberties of a people never were, nor ever will be, secure, when the transactions of their rulers may be concealed from them. The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding. The welfare of the people has always been the alibi of tyrants – Friedrich August von Hayek If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter. ‘Emergencies’ have always been the pretext on which the safeguards of individual liberty have been eroded. – Thomas Sowell The most terrifying words in the English language are: I’m from the government and I’m here to help. ― Benjamin Franklin, Better to die fighting for freedom then be a prisoner all the days of your life.Įach man is questioned by life and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life to life he can only respond by being responsible.įreedom has cost too much blood and agony to be relinquished at the cheap price of rhetoric. They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. ― Jim Morrison When a man is denied the right to live the life he believes in, he has no choice but to become an outlaw. There can’t be any large-scale revolution until there’s a personal revolution, on an individual level. You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask. The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. In our response lies our growth and our freedom. In that space is our power to choose our response. – Albert Camus The future doesn’t belong to the fainthearted it belongs to the brave.īetween stimulus and response there is a space. I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn’t, than live as if there isn’t and to die to find out that there is. The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. – Pericles Lock up your libraries if you like but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind. People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.įreedom is the sure possession of those alone who have the courage to defend it. – Voltaire It does not take a majority to prevail… but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men.įor to be free is not merely to cast off one’s chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others. Man is free at the moment he wishes to be. There are two freedoms – the false, where a man is free to do what he likes the true, where he is free to do what he ought. Liberty is not the power of doing what we like, but the right to do what we ought. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same.Įmancipate yourselves from mental slavery, NONE, but ourselves can free our minds! We didn’t pass it to our children in the bloodstream. – Albert Camus Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion. – Abraham Lincoln You can’t separate peace from freedom because no one can be at PEACE unless he has his FREEDOM . Those who deny freedom to others DO NOT deserve it for themselves. – Peter Marshall Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of human freedoms – to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way. May we think of freedom, not as the right to do as we please, but as the opportunity to do what is RIGHT. You don’t know how precious it is until it is too late.įreedom means you are unobstructed in living your life as you choose. Music by Fearless Motivation Instrumentals Freedom is like OXYGEN… Narrated by Josiah Ruff, for Fearless Motivation This is Why We Must Fight For Our Freedom (Famous Quotes on Freedom)
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