Freedom Quotes - Page 26

• Just, harmonious, temperate as is the spirit of liberty, there is in the name and mere notion of it a vagueness so opposite to the definite clearness of the moral law.

  Augustus William Hare

  Names, Law, Opposites

  Augustus William Hare (1827). “Guesses at Truth”, p.38

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• A man's worst difficulties begin when he is able to do as he likes.

  Thomas Huxley

  Men, Able, Likes

  "Address on University Education" (1876)

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• Sometimes I think the environment in which we operate is entirely too secular. The fact that we have freedom of religion doesn't mean we need to try to have freedom from religion

  William J. Clinton

  Christian, Religious, Mean

  William J. Clinton “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States, William J. Clinton, 1993, Bk. 2, August 1 to December 31, 1993”, Government Printing Office

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• It is necessary to stay on the march, to be on the journey, to work for peace wherever we are at all times, because the liberty we cherish, which we would share with the world, demands eternal vigilance.

  Ossie Davis

  Journey, Liberty, World

  Ossie Davis (2006). “Life Lit by Some Large Vision: Selected Speeches and Writings”, p.19, Simon and Schuster

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• The greatest blessing of our democracy is freedom. But in the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.

  Bernard Baruch

  Blessing, Discipline, Democracy

  Bernard Mannes Baruch (1960). “Baruch: The Public Years”

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• Most men, after a little freedom, have preferred authority with the consoling assurances and the economy of effort it brings.

  Walter Lippmann

  Men, Effort, Littles

  Walter Lippmann (1960). “A Preface To Morals”, p.14, Transaction Publishers

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• I intend no modification of my oft-expressed wish that all men everywhere could be free.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Men, Wish, Modification

  Letter to Horace Greeley, 22 August 1862

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• Liberty cannot be preserved without general knowledge among the people.

  John Adams

  Education, Knowledge, Unnecessary War

  'A Dissertation on the Canon and Feudal Law' (1765)

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• There is no such thing as a little freedom. Either you are all free, or you are not free.

  Walter Cronkite

  4th Of July, Littles, Journalism

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• This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Life, Softball, Wisdom

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Walter Arnold Kaufmann (1961). “Faust: part one and sections from part two”

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• He only earns his freedom and his life Who takes them every day by storm.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Love, Life, Dream

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1978). “Goethe's Faust: An abridged version”

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• If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Education, War, Civilization

  Letter to Colonel Charles Yancey, 6 January 1816

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• I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt.

  George Orwell

  Thinking, Liberty, Dirt

  George Orwell (2016). “The Road to Wigan Pier”, p.50, Jester House Publishing

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• Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.

  H. L. Mencken

  Ignorance, Majority Rule, Democracies Have

  "Notes On Journalism". Chicago Tribune, September 19, 1926.

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• Freedom of press is limited to those who own one.

  H. L. Mencken

  Funny, Political, Democracy

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• There should be a sympathy with freedom, a desire to give it scope, founded not upon visionary ideas, but upon the long experience of many generations within the shores of this happy isle, that in freedom you lay the firmest foundations both of loyalty and order.

  William E. Gladstone

  Loyalty, Order, Ideas

  1879 Speech, West Calder, 27 Nov.

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• Tyrants have not yet discovered any chains that can fetter the mind.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Tyrants, Mind, Democracy

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.217

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• The law will never make a man free; it is men who have got to make the law free.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Law, Literature

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• How does the Meadow flower its bloom unfold? Because the lovely little flower is free down to its root, and in that freedom bold.

  William Wordsworth

  Love, Flower, Roots

  William Wordsworth (1994). “The Collected Poems of William Wordsworth”, p.277, Wordsworth Editions

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• Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err. It passes my comprehension how human beings, be they ever so experienced and able, can delight in depriving other human beings of that precious right.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Able, Doe, Delight

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

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• Some tourists think Amsterdam is a city of sin, but in truth it is a city of freedom. And in freedom, most people find sin.

  John Green

  Thinking, Cities, People

  John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.106, Penguin UK

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• Freedom is like taking a bath: You got to keep doing it every day.

  Florynce Kennedy

  Peace, Ubuntu, Baths

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• We, and all others who believe in freedom as deeply as we do, would rather die on our feet than live on our knees.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Believe, Feet, Knees

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• Liberty is not merely a privilege to be conferred; it is a habit to be acquired.

  David Lloyd George

  Liberty, Privilege, Habit

  Speech in the House of Commons, May 10, 1928.

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• The principal fact of life is the free mind.

  Joyce Cary

  Mind, Facts, Life Is

  Joyce Cary (1976). “Selected Essays”

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