Freedom Quotes - Page 22

• The end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom. For in all the states of created beings capable of law, where there is no law, there is no freedom.

  John Locke

  Law, Ends, States

  John Locke (1821). “Two treatises of government”, p.234

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• All men are by nature born equally free and independent.

  George Mason

  Independent, Men, Civil Rights

  George Mason's remarks on Annual Elections for the Fairfax Independent Company, circa April 1775.

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• The desire of gold is not for gold. It is not the love of much wheat, and wool and household stuff. It is the means of freedom and benefit.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Mean, Feel Good, Desire

  "The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude".

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• A free America... means just this: individual freedom for all, rich or poor, or else this system of government we call democracy is only an expedient to enslave man to the machine and make him like it.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Mean, Men, Rich Or Poor

  Frank Lloyd Wright (2008). “Modern Architecture: Being the Kahn Lectures for 1930”, p.108, Princeton University Press

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• There must be no barriers to freedom of inquiry... There is no place for dogma in science. The scientist is free, and must be free to ask any question, to doubt any assertion, to seek for any evidence, to correct any errors. Our political life is also predicated on openness. We know that the only way to avoid error is to detect it and that the only way to detect it is to be free to inquire. And we know that as long as men are free to ask what they must, free to say what they think, free to think what they will, freedom can never be lost, and science can never regress.

  J. Robert Oppenheimer

  Science, Men, Thinking

  "J. Robert Oppenheimer" by L. Barnett in Life Magazine, Volume 7, No. 9, International Edition (p. 58), October 24, 1949.

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• Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  War, 4th Of July, Decisions You Make

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• Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others.

  Albert Camus

  Life, Art, Design

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Mistake, Struggle, July

  Mahatma Gandhi (1947). “Teachings of Mahatma Gandhi”

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• Countries are well cultivated, not as they are fertile, but as they are free.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Country, Wells, Fertile

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• In Europe, charters of liberty have been granted by power. America has set the example . . . of charters of power granted by liberty. This revolution in the practice of the world, may, with an honest praise, be pronounced the most triumphant epoch of its history, and the most consoling presage of its happiness.

  James Madison

  Europe, Practice, America

  James Madison, David B. Mattern (1997). “James Madison's "Advice to My Country"”, p.20, University of Virginia Press

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• Yes! to this thought I hold with firm persistence;
  The last result of wisdom stamps it true;
  He only earns his freedom and existence
  Who daily conquers them anew.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Wisdom, Persistence, Lasts

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1912). “Faust”

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• Freedom cannot be bestowed - it must be achieved.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Memorial Day, 4th Of July, Patriotic

  Elbert Hubbard (1908). “Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Teachers: Booker T. Washington. Thomas Arnold. Erasmus. Hypatia. St. Benedict. Mary Baker Eddy”

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• You can't talk about the environment, you can't talk about political correctness, affirmative action and all the other innumerable things that freedom is about, unless you have a free society based upon the integrity of the individual. If you have a responsible society, these other issues will not come up in a responsible society, and that is what freedom is all about.

  Russell Means

  Integrity, Responsibility, Issues

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• Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Change, Father, 4th Of July

  Gettysburg Address, Gettysburg, Pa., 19 Nov. 1863

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• I had crossed de line of which I had so long been dreaming. I was free; but dere was no one to welcome me to de land of freedom, I was a stranger in a strange land.

  Harriet Tubman

  Land, Slavery, Lines

  "Harriet, The Moses of Her People". Book by Sarah H. Bradford, 1886.

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• We have confused the free with the free and easy.

  Adlai E. Stevenson

  Confused, Easy

  "Putting First Things". Book by Adlai E. Stevenson, 1960.

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• Who is more to be pitied, a writer bound and gagged by policemen or one living in perfect freedom who has nothing more to say?

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Writing, Perfect, Policemen

  Kurt Vonnegut (2009). “Bluebeard: A Novel”, p.187, Dial Press

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• Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good.

  H. L. Mencken

  Wise, Men, Giving

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• As human beings, we are endowed with freedom of choice, and we cannot shuffle off our responsibility upon the shoulders of God or nature. We must shoulder it ourselves. It is our responsibility.

  Arnold J. Toynbee

  Responsibility, Choices, Shoulders

  Arnold J. Toynbee (1949). “Civilization on Trial”

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• Freedom is never dear at any price. It is the breath of life. What would a man not pay for living?

  Mahatma Gandhi

  4th Of July, Men, Pay

  Mahatma Gandhi (1947). “Teachings of Mahatma Gandhi”

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• A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue.

  Daniel Webster

  Country, 4th Of July, Liberty

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• It's only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Sad, Wisdom, Loss

  "Fight Club". www.imdb.com. 1999.

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• For in the end, freedom is a personal and lonely battle; and one faces down fears of today so that those of tomorrow might be engaged.

  Alice Walker

  Lonely, Fear, Loneliness

  Alice Walker (2011). “In Search of Our Mother's Gardens”, p.143, Hachette UK

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• Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.

  H. L. Mencken

  Democracies Have, People, Democracy

  A Little Book in C Major ch. 2 (1916)

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• Our ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide how anybody or anything outside ourselves will affect us.

  Stephen Covey

  Inspirational, Attitude, Insightful

  Stephen R. Covey (2012). “The Wisdom and Teachings of Stephen R. Covey”, p.18, Simon and Schuster

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