7,738 Quotes About Freedom

Truth! Freedom! Justice! And a hard-boiled egg!

There is no compulsion for man to accept the truth. But it is certainly a shame upon the human intellect when man is not even interested in finding out as to what is the truth! Islam teaches that God has given man the faculty of reason and therefore expects man to reason things out objectively and systematically for himself. To reflect and to question and to reflect.

Socialism is an alternative to capitalism as potassium cyanide is an alternative to water.

I believe in only one thing: liberty; but I do not believe in liberty enough to want to force it upon anyone.

It's certainly not too late to change to the winning side. But you know, you also have the freedom to stay just where you are. That's what it means to be an American. That's the miracle of America. Freedom to believe means the freedom to believe the wrong thing, after all. Just as freedom of speech gives you the right to stay silent.

We are not to expect to be translated from despotism to liberty in a featherbed.

...So we passed, handcuffed and in silence, through the streets of Washington, through the Captial of a nation, whose theory of government, we are told, rests on the foundation of man's inalienable right to life, LIBERTY, and the pursuit of happiness! Hail! Columbia, happy land, indeed!

I am for freedom of religion, and against all maneuvers to bring about a legal ascendency of one sect over another.

Congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of production and trade...