Freedom quotations

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◆ A hero is someone who understands the responsibility that comes with his freedom.

- Bob Dylan99

◆ Responsibility is the price of freedom.

- Elbert Hubbard99

◆ I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do. I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.

- Robert A. Heinlein99

◆ The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.

- Albert Camus99

◆ Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.99

◆ It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.

- Mark Twain99

◆ Our freedom can be measured by the number of things we can walk away from.

- Vernon Howard99

◆ The truth is I love being alive. And I love feeling free. So if I can't have those things then I feel like a caged animal and I'd rather not be in a cage. I'd rather be dead. And it's real simple. And I think it's not that uncommon.

- Angelina Jolie99

◆ If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.

- George Washington99

◆ We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

- Thomas Jefferson99

◆ Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.

- Viktor E. Frankl99

◆ It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.

- Voltaire99

◆ I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.

- Simone de Beauvoir99

◆ Liberty cannot be preserved without general knowledge among the people.

- John Adams99

◆ Freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought.

- Pope John Paul II99