Freedom

“The secret of happiness is freedom. The secret of freedom is courage.”

Thucydides


“He who is brave is free.”

Seneca


“Freedom in general may be defined as the absence of obstacles to the realization of desires”

Bertrand Russell


“Those who desire to give up freedom in order to gain security will not have, nor do they deserve, either one.”

Benjamin Franklin


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

Martin Luther King


“All good things are wild, and free.”

Henry David Thoreau


“Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.”

Albert Einstein


All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
Winston Churchill

Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. And so we must straighten our backs and work for our freedom. A man can't ride you unless your back is bent.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Freedom is never dear at any price. It is the breath of life. What would a man not pay for living?
Mohandas Gandhi

Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility. For the person who is unwilling to grow up, the person who does not want to carry is own weight, this is a frightening prospect.
Eleanor Roosevelt

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


He only earns his freedom and his life Who takes them every day by storm.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

If you want total security, go to prison. There you're fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking... is freedom.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
 Shall I tell you what the real evil is? To cringe to the things that are called evils, to surrender to them our freedom, in defiance of which we ought to face any suffering.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca


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

We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought.
Bertrand Russell

A Buddha is someone who finds freedom in good fortune and bad.
Bodhidharma