Freedom

(64 votes)   Liberty is a different kind of pain from prison.

T. S. Eliot
1888-1965, American-born British Poet, Critic

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(478 votes)   Democracy arose from men's thinking that if they are equal in any respect, they are equal absolutely.

Aristotle
BC 384-322, Greek Philosopher

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(289 votes)   I have walked that long road to freedom. I have tried not to falter; I have made missteps along the way. But I have discovered the secret that after climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb. I have taken a moment.

Nelson Mandela
South African Statesman - b 1918 - Nobel Prize Winner 1993

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(243 votes)   I know but one freedom and that is the freedom of the mind.

Antoine De Saint-Exupery
1900-1944, French Aviator, Writer

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(235 votes)   The first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an open forum.

Adlai E. Stevenson
1900-1965, American Lawyer, Politician

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(235 votes)   The sound of tireless voices is the price we pay for the right to hear the music of our own opinions.

Adlai E. Stevenson
1900-1965, American Lawyer, Politician

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(201 votes)   The fly that touches honey cannot use it's wings; so too the soul that clings to spiritual sweetness ruins it's freedom and hinders contemplation.

Ghose Aurobindo
1872-1950, Philosopher

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(193 votes)   A hungry man is not a free man.

Adlai E. Stevenson
1900-1965, American Lawyer, Politician

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(189 votes)   [Speaking about July 4th] It ought to be solemnized by pomp and parade, with shows, games, sports, guns, bells, bonfires, and illuminations, from one end of this continent to the other, from this time forward forever more."

John Adams
2nd President of the United States

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(188 votes)   Yesterday the greatest question was decided which ever was debated in America; and a greater perhaps never was, nor will be, decided among men. A resolution was passed without one dissenting colony, ''that these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent States.''

John Adams
1735-1826, Second President of the USA

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(179 votes)   The unity of freedom has never relied on uniformity of opinion.

John F. Kennedy
1917-1963, Thirty-fifth President of the USA

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(156 votes)   A man is morally free when, in full possession of his living humanity, he judges the world, and judges other men, with uncompromising sincerity.

George Santayana
1863-1952, American Philosopher, Poet

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(140 votes)   When we were told that by freedom we understood free enterprise, we did very little to dispel this monstrous falsehood. Wealth and economic well-being, we have asserted, are the fruits of freedom, while we should have been the first to know that this kind of ''happiness'' has been an unmixed blessing only in this country, and it is a minor blessing compared with the truly political freedoms, such as freedom of speech and thought, of assembly and association, even under the best conditions.

Hannah Arendt
1906-1975, German-born American Political Philosopher

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(129 votes)   We are willing enough to praise freedom when she is safely tucked away in the past and cannot be a nuisance. In the present, amidst dangers whose outcome we cannot foresee, we get nervous about her, and admit censorship.

Edward M. Forster
1879-1970, British Novelist, Essayist

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(128 votes)   When we let freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of that old Negro spiritual, ''Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!''

Martin Luther King Jr.
1929-1968, American Black Leader, Nobel Prize Winner, 1964

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