The secret of freedom lies in educating people, whereas the secret of tyranny is in keeping them ignorant. – Maximilien Robespierre
The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy their second worst enemy is total efficiency. – Aldous Huxley
Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground. – Frederick Douglass
I believe all Americans who believe in freedom, tolerance and human rights have a responsibility to oppose bigotry and prejudice based on sexual orientation. – Coretta Scott King
There can be no real freedom without the freedom to fail. – Erich Fromm
No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare. – James Madison
When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more. – John Adams
Freedom is hammered out on the anvil of discussion, dissent, and debate. – Hubert H. Humphrey
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows. – George Orwell
Emancipation from the bondage of the soil is no freedom for the tree. – Rabindranath Tagore
Freedom from the desire for an answer is essential to the understanding of a problem. – Jiddu Krishnamurti
I know but one freedom, and that is the freedom of the mind. – Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Freedom is not something that one people can bestow on another as a gift. Thy claim it as their own and none can keep it from them. – Kwame Nkrumah
Pervading nationalism imposes its dominion on man today in many different forms and with an aggressiveness that spares no one. The challenge that is already with us is the temptation to accept as true freedom what in reality is only a new form of slavery. – Pope John Paul II
A major source of objection to a free economy is precisely that group thinks they ought to want. Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself. – Milton Friedman
Freedom is the most contagious virus known to man. – Hubert H. Humphrey
Freedom in general may be defined as the absence of obstacles to the realization of desires. – Bertrand Russell
Shall I tell you what the real evil is? To cringe to the things that are called evils, to surrender to them our freedom, in defiance of which we ought to face any suffering. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners. – Vladimir Lenin
Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure. – Bertrand Russell
