Quotes about Freedom
The most powerful men are not public men: a public man is responsible, and a responsible man is a slave. It is private life that governs the world.
— Benjamin Disraeli
For the power of Man to make himself what he pleases means... the power of some men to make other men what THEY please.
— CS Lewis
Censors are dead men set up to judge between life and death. For no live, sunny man would be a censor, he'd just laugh.
— DH Lawrence
To every man, even though he be a slave, the light of heaven is sweet.
— Euripides
Man is tormented by no greater anxiety than to find someone quickly to whom he can hand over that great gift of freedom with which the ill-fated creature is born.
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
I hold it a blasphemy to say that a man ought not to fight against authority: there is no great religion and no great freedom that has not done it, in the beginning.
— George Eliot
We will not permit the triumph of violence in the affairs of men; free people will set the course of history.
— George W. Bush
I believe that freedom is a gift from an Almighty to every man, woman, and child; that is a principle that was important to me during my presidency and I think it's an important principle.
— George W. Bush
The Catholic Church is the only thing that saves man from the degrading slavery of being a child of his age.
— GK Chesterton
I have discovered that man is superior to the system he propounds.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Study men laying down their lives without hurting anyone else in the cause of their country's freedom.
— Mahatma Gandhi
No government on earth can make men, who have realized freedom in their hearts, salute against their will.
— Mahatma Gandhi