Freedom Quotes

"No one is free, even the birds are chained to the sky."

"Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves."

"All good things are wild, and free."

"The man who trades freedom for security does not deserve nor will he ever receive either."

"The law will never make men free, it is men that have to make the law free."

"No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms."

"Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live."

"Unfortunately, I am involved in a freedom ride protesting the loss of the minority rights belonging to the few remaining earthbound stars. All we demanded was our right to twinkle."

"Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility."

"The highest pleasure to be got out of freedom, and having nothing to do, is labor"

"A government big enough to supply you with everything you need is a government big enough to take away everything that you have.... The course of history shows that as the government grows, liberty decreases."

"Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom."

"The will of the people is the only legitimate foundation of any government, and to protect its free expression should be our first object."

"Microsoft's key goal is to be able to have the freedom to innovate like we always have, where we decide what goes into the product, where we can support the Internet in the product, ... We're simply sticking up for that. We're hard at work on the new products while the competitors are trying to use regulation to slow us down."

"The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's throat, for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty."

"Freedom lies in being bold."

"You have freedom when you're easy in your harness."

"I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility thatcomes with his freedom."

"Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both."

"A free press can of course be good or bad, but, most certainly, without freedom it will never be anything but bad. . . . Freedom is nothing else but a chance to be better, whereas enslavement is a certainty of the worse."