FREEDOM QUOTES VII

quotations about freedom

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Ignorance may be bliss, but it certainly is not freedom, except in the minds of those who prefer darkness to light and chains to liberty. The more true information we can acquire, the better for our enfranchisement.

ROBERT HUGH BENSON

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Freedom is a dangerous intoxicant and very few people can tolerate it in any quantity.

KATHERINE ANNE PORTER

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Men rattle their chains--to manifest their freedom.

ARTHUR HELPS

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Every man
On Freedom's ramparts must a warder be,
To warn of danger when the foe appears;
To meet the onset when the foe assaults.
Else--vain our hopes, and else the temple grand,
Of all our rights, and birth-right liberties,
Ere long will fall, and crumble in the dust,
A ruin, more abject and dire than Rome
Or Carthage was.

ANDREW DOWNING

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Freedom is the basic condition for you to touch life, to touch the blue sky, the trees, the birds, the tea, and the other person.

THICH NHAT HANH

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Step out of your cage
And onto the stage
It's time to start
Playing your part
Freedom awaits
Open the gates
Open your mind
Freedom's a state

DEPECHE MODE

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Any nation or government that deprives an individual of freedom is in that moment committing an act of moral and spiritual murder. Any individual who is not concerned about his freedom commits an act of moral and spiritual suicide.

MARTIN LUTHER KING

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I hated slavery, always, and the desire for freedom only needed a favorable breeze, to fan it into a blaze, at any moment. The thought of only being a creature of the present and the past troubled me, and I longed to have a future--a future with hope in it. To be shut up entirely to the past and present, is abhorrent to the human mind; it is to the soul--whose life and happiness is unceasing progress--what the prison is to the body; a blight and mildew, a hell of horrors. The dawning of this, another year, awakened me from my temporary slumber, and roused into life my latent, but long cherished aspirations for freedom. I was now not only ashamed to be contented in slavery, but ashamed to seem to be contented.

FREDERICK DOUGLASS

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Freedom doesn't mean aimlessness. We can't just sleepwalk through life.... Freedom demands structure.

GARRISON KEILLOR

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Freedom is the illusion of an imprisoned mind.

LEONID S. SUKHORUKOV

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Freedom ... the sauce best beloved by the boyish soul.

LOUISA MAY ALCOTT

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Freedom begins between the ears.

EDWARD ABBEY

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Freedom based on respect for the individual, is an idea whose strength and beauty has remained undimmed down the ages. Other ideas and other words have been twisted and usurped. But freedom resists such treatment. It is the great gift of Western culture to mankind. It remains the driving force of the Western democracies today. It is the source of their strength, of their diversity and of their prosperity.

MARGARET THATCHER

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For He that worketh high and wise.
Nor pauses in his plan,
Will take the sun out of the skies
Ere freedom out of man.

RALPH WALDO EMERSON

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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

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No successful political transition can take place without leaders and movements that demand and press for freedom.

FAREED ZAKARIA

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The free man never thinks of escape.

JEANETTE WINTERSON

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Private property was the original source of freedom. It still is its main bulwark.

WALTER LIPPMANN

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Un-American activity cannot be prevented or routed out by employing un-American methods; to preserve freedom we must use the tools that freedom provides.

DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER

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Proving one's freedom will often mean insisting on the most arbitrary, odd, unrepeatable aspects of one's behavior.

ERMANNO BENCIVENGA

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