7,738 Quotes About Freedom

Freedom and freedom from hunger need not be mutually exclusive. Revenge and cruelty threaten the former; greed threatens the latter. If the Government of the free, by the free and for the free wants to sustain the free State, it has to go hammer and tongs against the enemies of freedom, whether these are revengeful, cruel and violent mobs or their ideological supporters or the greedy who bleed the free so that the hungry will join the mobs.

Freedom is a right only when it sustains and strengthens freedom, not when it seeks to destroy freedom.

A government that is incapable of destroying non-state coercive actors is as harmful to the cause of freedom as a coercive State.

Persuasion and coercion are mutually exclusive. Freedom to persuade does include freedom to persuade by coercion. It also does not include persuasion for coercion. The armchair ideologue who preaches coercion is as guilty of coercion as one who coerces after such "peaceful" persuasion.

Nothing is mine, not even body, not even thoughts.' This realization is the door to absolute freedom and supreme power.

We are given a freedom of choice to choose, but we have to choose what they want. Not what we want. Then that is not freedom, but oppression.

If the goal is freedom, be prepared to fight battles you didn't ask for. If the goal is authenticity, be prepared to confront shame that wasn't yours to carry.

Only free men can change their minds and be surprised; and while no men are completely free, some are freer than others.

A man's free to do what he wants with his life, until he falls foul of the banks.