Quotes about Freedom
There is something in us that refuses to be regarded as less than human. We are created for freedom.
— Desmond Tutu
Through discipline comes freedom.
— Aristotle
Freedom is obedience to self-formulated rules.
— Aristotle
All that is done on compulsion is bitterness to the soul.
— Aristotle
Freedom is a property of the will which is realized through truth. Freedom is given to man as a task to be accomplished.
— Aristotle
Please leave me alone; let me go on to the stars.
— Arthur C. Clarke
When the spirits are low, when the day appears dark, when work becomes monotonous, when hope hardly seems worth having, just mount a bicycle and go out for a spin down the road, without thought on anything but the ride you are taking.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
When we parted she was a free woman, but I could never again be a free man.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
A forced marriage is no marriage.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
Now she has power and passion and the struggle has significance for me-let the momentary consequences be what they may. Suppose that in her pride she becomes giddy, suppose that she does break with me-all right! -she has her freedom, but she will still belong to me. That the engagement should bind her is silly-I want to possess her only in her freedom
— Soren Kierkegaard
Life in America shows that liberty, paired with law, is not to be feared.
— George W. Bush
I want to live out principles that became a part of my life in my 40s, 50s, and 60s. One principle is the universality of freedom.
— George W. Bush