FREEDOM QUOTES IV

quotations about freedom

Freedom quote

Freedom is a heavy load, a great and strange burden for the spirit to undertake. It is not easy. It is not a gift given, but a choice made, and the choice may be a hard one. The road goes upward towards the light; but the laden traveler may never reach the end of it.

URSULA K. LE GUIN

The Tombs of Atuan


I anticipate with pleasing expectations that retreat in which I promise myself to realize, without alloy, the sweet enjoyment of partaking, in the midst of my fellow citizens, the benign influence of good laws under a free government, the ever favorite object of my heart, and the happy reward, as I trust, of our mutual cares, labors, and dangers.

GEORGE WASHINGTON

farewell address, Sep. 17, 1796


To know how to free oneself is nothing; the arduous thing is to know what to do with one's freedom.

ANDRE GIDE

Autumn Leaves


Freedom is the fundamental condition for any growth.

ERICH FROMM

Escape from Freedom


Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.

JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU

The Social Contract


May the light of freedom, coming to all darkened lands, flame brightly--until at last the darkness is no more.

DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER

Second Inaugural Address, Jan. 21, 1957


Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it.

JOHN QUINCY ADAMS

attributed, The Rebirth of a Nation


The more freedom you give people to do good, the more freedom they have to do bad as well.

TAD WILLIAMS

Otherland: City of Golden Shadow


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

SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

The Blood of Others


What some people term Freedom is nothing else than a liberty of saying and doing disagreeable things. It is but carrying the notion a little higher, and it would require us to break and have a head broken reciprocally without offense.

WILLIAM SHENSTONE

Essays on Men and Manners


Any bonds today?
Bonds of freedom
That's what I'm selling
Any bonds today?
Scrape up the most you can
Here comes the freedom man

DUKE ELLINGTON

"Any Bonds Today?"


True freedom is to share
All the chains our brothers wear

JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL

"Stanzas on Freedom"


Man is born free and is everywhere in chains.

PETER CAREY

Parrot and Olivier in America


The supreme end is the freedom of the spirit.

SRI AUROBINDO

Bhagavad Gita and Its Message


God's work is freedom. Freedom is dear to his heart. He wishes to make man's will free, and at the same time wishes it to be pure, majestic, and holy.

E. H. CHAPIN

Living Words


I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power, than by violent and sudden usurpations.

JAMES MADISON

speech at the Virginia Convention to ratify the Federal Constitution, Jun. 6, 1788


Mistaking insolence for freedom has always been the hallmark of the slave.

WILHELM REICH

Listen


Real freedom lies in wildness, not in civilization.

CHARLES LINDBERGH

attributed, Lindbergh


The cause of Freedom is the cause of God!

WILLIAM LISLE BOWLES

Edmund Burke


If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom; and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too.

W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM

Strictly Personal