Quotes on Freedom

Well, if crime fighters fight crime and fire fighters fight fire, what do freedom fighters fight? They never mention that part to us, do they?
   — George Carlin

You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.
   — Malcolm X

For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.
   — Nelson Mandela

The freedom of all is essential to my freedom.
   — Mikhail Bakunin

When men are brought face to face with their opponents, forced to listen and learn and mend their ideas, they cease to be children and savages and begin to live like civilized men. Then only is freedom a reality, when men may voice their opinions because they must examine their opinions.
   — Walter Lippmann

Laws alone can not secure freedom of expression; in order that every man present his views without penalty there must be spirit of tolerance in the entire population.
   — Albert Einstein

In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved.
   — Franklin D. Roosevelt

Americans are a free people, who know that freedom is the right of every person and the future of every nation. The liberty we prize is not America's gift to the world; it is God's gift to humanity.
   — George W. Bush

Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure.
   — Bertrand Russell

True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.
   — Franklin D. Roosevelt

There are only two kinds of freedom in the world; the freedom of the rich and powerful, and the freedom of the artist and the monk who renounces possessions.
   — Anais Nin