7,738 Quotes About Freedom

Let's not grow with our roots in the ground.

Our names were made for us in another century.

Nature smiles at the union of freedom and equality in our utopias. For freedom and equality are sworn and everlasting enemies, and when one prevails the other dies.

Questions that will free you might have answers that will imprison you again.

My airplane is quiet, and for a moment still an alien, still a stranger to the ground, I am home.

How do you stop those who will stop at nothing?

Off goes the head of the king, and tyranny gives way to freedom. The change seems abysmal. Then, bit by bit, the face of freedom hardens, and by and by it is the old face of tyranny. Then another cycle, and another. But under the play of all these opposites there is something fundamental and permanent — the basic delusion that men may be governed and yet be free.

-The little comfort of love?-Is that comfort so little?-Caged birds accept each other but flight is what they long for.

Political figures who talk a lot about liberty and freedom invariably turn out to mean the freedom to not pay taxes and discriminate based on race; freedom to hold different ideas and express them, not so much.