Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quote Share via Email Print this Page [401-420] of 1320 Freedom quotesFreedom QuotesFreedom Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs.~ Epicurus The American feels too rich in his opportunities for free expression that he often no longer knows what he is free from. Neither does he know where he is not free; he does not recognize his native autocrats when he sees them.~ Erik H. Erikson Freedom may come quickly in robes of peace, or after ages of conflict and war; but come it will, and abide it will, so long as the principles by which it was acquired are held sacred.~ Edward Everett The man who stands upon his own soil, who feels, by the laws of the land in which he lives,--by the laws of civilized nations,--he is the rightful and exclusive owner of the land which he tills, is, by the constitution of our nature, under a wholesome influence, not easily imbibed from any other source.~ Edward Everett Freedom may come quickly in robes of peace, or after ages of conflict and war; but come it will, and abide it will, so long as the principles by which it was acquired are held sacred.~ Edward Everett I gave my life for freedom--This I know; For those who bade me fight had told me so.~ William Norman Ewer It would be equally reasonable to say that sheep are born carnivorous, and everywhere nibble grass.~ Emile Faguet We cannot choose freedom established on a hierarchy of degrees of freedom, on a caste system of equality like military rank. We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.~ William Faulkner We are not liberated until we liberate others. So long as we need to control other people, however benign our motives, we are captive to that need. In giving them freedom, we free ourselves.~ Marilyn Ferguson Ultimately we know deeply that the other side of every fear is a freedom.~ Marilyn Ferguson Complete and accurate surveillance as a means of control is probably a practical impossibility. What is much more likely is a loss of privacy and constant inconvenience as the wrong people gain access to information, as one wastes time convincing the inquisitors that one is in fact innocent, or as one struggles to untangle the errors of the errant machine.~ Victor Ferkiss If a blending of individualism and of cooperative participation is a prerequisite to a democratic solution of the problems of a society of free men, it must also be noted that an atmosphere of freedom is required if these problems are to be met constructively and as they arise.~ Marshall Field Let us remember that revolutions do not always establish freedom. Our own free institutions were not the offspring of our revolution. They existed before.~ Millard Fillmore Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or the press, or the right of the people to peaceably assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.~ First Amendment in the Bill of Rights It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning.~ Henry Ford We are willing enough to praise freedom when she is safely tucked away in the past and cannot be a nuisance. In the present, amidst dangers whose outcome we cannot foresee, we get nervous about her, and admit censorship.~ E. M. Forster Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have.~ Harry Emerson Fosdick Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting.~ Alan Dean Foster “For your own good” is a persuasive argument that will eventually make a man agree to his own destruction. ~ Janet Frame The last of the human freedoms -- to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.~ Viktor Frankl Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print