freedom

There is onlyone cure for the evilswhichnewlyacquired freedom produces; and that is freedom† The blaze of truth and liberty mayat first dazzle and bewilder nations which have become half blind in the house of bondage. But let them gaze on, and they will soon be able to bear it.

—1st Baron

We were a self-centred army without parade or gesture, devoted to freedom, the second of man's creeds, a purpose so ravenous that it devoured all our strength, a hope so transcendent that ourearlier ambitions faded in its glare.

—Arabia

Art,Glory, Freedom fail, but Nature still is fair.

—Rochdale

   L'amour est un oiseau rebelle Que nul ne peut apprivoiser. Love's a bird that will live in freedom That no man ever learned to tame.

—Meilhac, Henri

That sweet bondage which is freedom's self.

—Shelley, Percy Bysshe

He who once became aware of the power of Solidarity and who breathed the air of freedom will not be crushed.

—Walesa, Lech

We were obsessed by the feeling that this was the supreme cause of our time. The cause of poets and of writers.The cause of freedom. And that unlessthe cause of anti-Fascism was won, unless Fascism was defeated, we would be unable to exist as writers.

—Spender, Sir Stephen Harold

   Mehr als das Leben lieb' ich meine Freiheit. More than life, I cherish freedom.

—Schiaparelli, Elsa

The British Empire has advanced to a new conception of autonomyand freedom, to the idea of a system of British nations, each freely ordering its own individual life, but bound together in unity byallegiance to one Crown, and co-operating in all that concerns the common weal.

—GeorgeVI

Conservative ideal of freedom and progress: everyone to have an unfettered opportunity of remaining exactly where they are.

—Madan, Geoffrey

The controversy over freedom of speech and of the press is at the bottom a controversy over the desirability, or otherwise, of telling lies.What is really at issue is the right to report events truthfully, or as truthfully as is consistent with the ignorance, bias and self-deception from which every observer necessarily suffers.

—Orwell, George pseudonym of  Eric Arthur Blair

The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission.

—Kennedy,John F(itzgerald)

The military struggle may frankly be regarded for what it actually was, namely a war for independence, an armed attempt to impose the views of the revolutionists on the British government and large sections of the colonial populationat whatevercosttofreedomofopinionor the sanctity of life and property.

—Schlesinger, Arthur Meier

Le bonheur de l'homme n'est pas dans la liberte¤  , mais dans l'acceptation d'un devoir. Man'shappiness doesnot come from freedom but inthe acceptance of a task.

—Gide, Andre¤   Paul Guillaume

This rortie wretched city Sair come down frae its auld hiechts öThe hauf o't smug, complacent, Lost til all pride of race or spirit, The tither wild and rouch as ever In its secret hairt But lost alsweill, the smeddum tane, The man o'independent mind has cap in hand the day öSits on its craggy spine And drees the wind and rain That nourished all its genius öWeary wi centuries This empty capital snorts like a great beast Caged in its sleep, dreaming of freedom.

—Smith, Sydney Goodsir

As with all forms of liberation, of which the liberation of women is only one example, it is easy to suppose in a time of freedom that the darker days of repression can never come again.

—Franzen,Jonathan

History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.

—Eisenhower, Dwight D(avid)

   Extreme freedom can't be expected to lead to anything but a change to extreme slavery, whether for a private individual or for a city.

—Plato

En skulde aldrig ha'sine bedste buxer pafi  , nafi   r en er ude og strider for frihed og sandhed. You should never have your best trousers on when you turn out to fight for freedom and truth.

—Ibsen, HenrikJohan

Many politicians of our time are in the habit of laying it Macaulay down as a self-evident proposition, that no people ought to be free till theyare fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story, who resolved not to go into the water till he had learnt to swim. If men are to wait for liberty till they become wise and good in slavery, they may indeed wait for ever.

—1st Baron

The chief aim of their constitution is that, whenever public needs permit, all citizens should be free, so far as possible, to withdraw their time and energy from the service of the body, and devote themselves to the freedom and culture of the mind. For that, they think, is the real happiness of life.

—More, SirThomas

Si l'on recherche en quoi consiste pre¤  cise¤  ment le plus grand bien de tous, qui doit e"  tre le fin de tout syste'  me de le¤  gislation, on trouvera qu'il se re¤  duit a'   ces deux objets principaux, la liberte¤   et l'e¤  galite¤  . If we enquire wherein lies precisely the greatest good of all, which ought to be the goal of every system of law, we shall find that it comes down to two main objects, freedom and equality.

—Rousseau,JeanJacques

F and W gang thegither, Tak aff your dram!

—Burns, Robert

Freedom and not servitude is the cure of anarchy; as religion, and not atheism, is the true remedy for superstition.

—Burke, Edmund

Freedom doth with degree dispense.

—Jonson, Ben

Stone walls do not a prison make, Nor iron bars a cage; Minds innocent and quiet take That for a hermitage; If I have freedom in my love, And in my soul am free; Angels along that soar above, Enjoy such liberty.

—Lovelace, Richard

A! fredome is a noble thing! Fredome mayss man to haiff liking, Fredome all solace to man giffis: He levys at ess that frely levys!

—Barbour,John

You'refree. And freedomisbeautiful. And,you know, it'll take time to restore chaos and orderöorder out of chaos. But we will.

—Bush, GeorgeW(alker)

Freedom is not an ideal; it is not even a protection, if it means nothing more than the freedom to stagnate.

—Stevenson, Adlai E(wing)

Freedom is only the distance between the hunter and his prey.

—Zhao, Zhenkai pen name Beo Dao

War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.

—Orwell, George pseudonym of  Eric Arthur Blair

Freedom is not something that anybody can be given; freedomissomething peopletakeand peopleareasfree as they want to be.

—Baldwin,James Arthur

But some of us still believe that, without freedom, human beings cannot become fully human and that freedom is therefore supremely valuable.

—Huxley, Aldous Leonard

   Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that isgranted, all else follows.

—Orwell, George pseudonym of  Eric Arthur Blair

La liberte¤   est le droit de faire tout ce que les lois permettent. Freedom is the right to do anything the laws permit.

—Bre'  de et de

There is a misunderstanding by marketers in our culture about what freedom of choice is. In the market, it is equated with multiplying choice. This is a misconception. If you have infinite choice, people are reduced to passivity.

—Gitlin,Todd

   Success, instead of giving freedom ofchoice, becomes a way of life.

—Miller, Arthur

Freedom of men under government is to have a standing rule to live by, common to every one of that society, and made by the legislative power vested in it; a liberty to follow my own will in all things when the rule prescribes not, and not to be subject to the inconstant, uncertain, unknown, arbitrary rule of another man.

—Locke,John

Thou canst not touch the freedom of my mind With all thy charms, although this corporal rind Thou hast immanacl'd, while heav'n sees good.

—Milton,John

Equal and exact justice to all men†freedom of religion, freedom of the press, freedom of the person under the protection of the habeas corpus; and trial by juries impartially selectedöthese principles form the bright constellation that has gone before us.

—Jefferson,Thomas

Without deviation, without exception, without any ifs, buts, or whereases, freedom of speech means you shall not do something to people for views they have, express, speak, or write.

—Black, Hugo LaFayette

En matie'  re de presse, il n'y a donc re¤  ellement pas de milieu entre la servitude et la licence. Pour recueillir les biens inestimables qu'assure la liberte¤   de la presse, il faut Tocqueville savoir se soumettre aux maux ine¤  vitables qu'elle fait na|"tre. As for the press, there is no middle way between servitude and extreme licence. In order to enjoy the invaluable benefits ensured by freedom of the press, it is necessary to submit to the inevitable evils that it engenders.

—Tocqueville, Alexis Charles Henri Cle¤  rel de

If the roads, the railways, the banks, the insurance offices, the great joint-stockcompanies, the universities, and the public charities, were all of them branches of government; if, in addition, the municipal corporations and local boards, with all that now devolves on them, became departments of the central administration; if the employees of all these different enterprises were appointed and paid by the government, and looked to the government for every rise in life; not all the freedom of the press and popular constitution of the legislature would make this or any other country free otherwise than in name.

—Mill,John Stuart

The era of free speech is closing down. The freedom of the press in Britain was always something of a fake, because in the last resort, money controls opinion; still, so long asthe legal right tosay what you like exists, there are always loopholes for an unorthodox writer.

—Orwell, George pseudonym of  Eric Arthur Blair

Ma bouche sera la bouche des malheurs qui n'ont point de bouche, ma voix, la liberte¤   de celles qui s'affaissent au cachot du de¤  sespoir. My voice will be the voice of those who suffer and have no voice. My voice, the freedom of those weakened in the dungeon of despair.

—Ce¤  saire, Aime¤   Fernand

Hope, for a season, bade the world farewell, And Freedom shriekedöas Kosciusko fell!

—Campbell,Thomas

The new industrial revolution is a two-edged sword. It may be used for the benefit of humanity, assuming that humanity survives long enough to reach a period in whichsuch a benefit ispossible.If, however, we proceed along the clear and obvious lines of our traditional behavior, and follow our traditional worship of progress and the fifth freedomöthe freedom to exploitöit is practically certain that we shall have to face a decade or more of ruin and despair.

—Wiener, Norbert

The freedom to marry has long been recognized as one ofthevital personal rights essentialtotheorderly pursuit of happiness by free men.

—Warren, Earl

O Freedom, what liberties are taken in thy name!

—George, Daniel pseudonym of  Daniel George Bunting

  Freedom which in no other land will thrive, Freedom an English subject's sole prerogative.

—Dryden,John

When God gave [Adam] reason, hegave him freedomto choose, for reason is but choosing; he had been else a mere artificial Adam.

—Milton,John

Car loi d'Amour est de l'un captiver, L'autre donner d'heureuse liberte¤  . The law of love is to captivate one, And to give another joyous freedom.

—Sce'  ve, Maurice

Je suis ne¤   pour te conna|"tre Pour te nommer Liberte¤  . I was born to know you To give you your name: Freedom.

—EŁ  luard, Paul pseudonym of  Euge'  ne Grindel

I sometimesthink that running hasgiven me a glimpse of the greatest freedom a man can ever know, because it results in the simultaneous liberation of both body and mind.

—Bannister, Sir Roger Gilbert

Ce serait diminuer leur importance que de croire qu'ils ne servent qu'a'   garantir la liberte¤  ; ils maintiennent la civilisation. It would diminish the importance [of newspapers] to believe that they only serve to guarantee freedom; they maintain civilization.

—Tocqueville, Alexis Charles Henri Cle¤  rel de

Four score and sevenyears ago our fathers brought forth upon this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal†we here highly resolve that the dead shall not have died in vain; that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom; and that government of the people, by the people, and for the people, shall not perish from the earth. 510

—Lincoln, Abraham

I had often wondered why young women should marry, as they have so much more freedom, and so much more attention paid to them while unmarried, than when married.

—Johnson, Samuel known as Dr Johnson

History may be servitude, History may be freedom.

—Eliot,T(homas) S(tearns)

He loved chivalrie, Trouthe and honour, fredom and curteisie.

—Chaucer, Geoffrey

There is but one task for allö For each one life to give. What stands if freedom fall? Who dies if England live?

—Kipling, (Joseph) Rudyard

The knowledge that you can have is inexhaustible, and what is inexhaustible is benevolent. The knowledge that you cannot have is of the riddles of birth and death, of our future destinyand the purposes of God. Here there is no knowledge, but illusions that restrict freedom and limit hope. Accept the mystery behind knowledge: It is not darkness but shadow.

—Frye, Northrop

   Liberty isthemotherof virtue, and if women be, by their very constitution, slaves, and not allowed to breathe the sharp invigorating air of freedom, they must ever languish like exotics, and be reckoned beautiful flaws in nature.

—Wollstonecraft, Mary also known as Mrs Godwin

   The Parliament of England cannot have on earth so strong pillars and pregnant supporters of all their were always told there is one golden rule: no hanky panky in theTardis.

—Baillie, Robert

My country,'tis of thee, Sweet land of liberty, Of thee I sing: Land where my fathers died, Land of the pilgrims'pride, From every mountain-side Let the freedom ring.

—Smith, Samuel Francis

There is one expanding horror in American life. It is that our long odyssey toward liberty, democracy and freedom-for-all may be achieved in such a way that utopia remains forever closed, and we live in freedom and hell, debased of style, not individual from one another, void of courage, our fear rationalized away.

—Mailer, Norman Kingsley

England's foreign policy should always be inspired by the love of freedom. There should be a sympathy with freedom, a desire to give it scope, founded not upon visionary ideas but upon the long experience of many generations within the shores of this happy isle, that in freedom one lays the firmest foundations both of loyalty and order.

—Gladstone,W(illiam) E(wart)

  Milton! thou shouldst be living at this hour: England hath need of thee: she is a fen Of stagnant waters: altar, sword and pen, Fireside, the heroic wealth of hall and bower, Have forfeited their ancient English dower Of inward happiness.We are selfish men; Oh! raise us up, return to us again; And give us manners, virtue, freedom, power. Thy soul was like a star, and dwelt apart; Thou hadst a voice whose sound was like the sea: Pure as the naked heavens, majestic, free, So didst thou travel on life's common way, In cheerful godliness; and yet thy heart The lowliest duties on herself did lay.

—Wordsworth,William

Technology, while adding daily to our physical ease, throws dailyanother loop of fine wire around our souls. It contributes hugely to our mobility, which we must not confuse with freedom. The extensions of our senses, which we find so fascinating, are not adding to the discrimination of our minds, since we need increasingly to take the reading of a needle on a dial to discover whether we think something isgood or bad, or right or wrong.

—Stevenson, Adlai E(wing)

As life runs on, the road grows strange With faces new,öand near the end The milestones into headstones change, 520 'Neath every one a friend.

—Lowell,James Russell

None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but licence.

—Milton,John

   I do not want peace nor beauty nor even freedom from 494 pain. I want to fight and to feel new gods in the flesh.

—Lawrence, D(avid) H(erbert)

The revelation of Thought takes men out of servitude into freedom.

—Emerson, RalphWaldo

The laws of cricket tell of the English love of compromise between a particular freedom and a general orderliness, or legality.

—Cardus, Sir Neville

I take these to be the seven great facts and doctrines concerning Godöhis richness; his double action, natural and supernatural; his perfect freedom; his delightfulness; his otherness; his adorableness and his prevenience.

—Hu«  gel, Friedrich von, Baron

Perfect freedom is reserved for the man who lives by his own work and in that work does what he wants to do.

—Collingwood, R(obin) G(eorge)

This embattled shore, portal of freedom, is forever hallowed by theideals, thevalorand thesacrifices ofour fellow countrymen.

—Eisenhower, Dwight D(avid)

None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free.

—Buck, Pearl ne¤  e Sydenstricker

Everyone suddenly burst out singing; And I was filled with such delight As prisoned birds must find in freedom,

—Sassoon, Siegfried Louvain

Beware of anything that promises freedom or enlightenmentötraps for eager and clever foolsöa dog has a keener noseöevery creature in a cave can justify himself. Three-fourths of philosophyand literature is the talk of people trying to convince themselves that they really like the cage they were tricked into entering.

—Snyder, Gary Sherman

Bodyand soul,Black America reveals the extreme questions of contemporary life, questions of freedom and identity: How can I be who I am?

—Jordan,June

And right action is freedom From past and future also.

—Eliot,T(homas) S(tearns)

Shouting isnot a substitute for thinking and reason isnot the subversion but the salvation of freedom.

—Stevenson, Adlai E(wing)

Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred†[nor] allow our creative protests to degenerate into physical violence.

—King, Martin LutherJr

Once regarded as the herald of enlightenment in all spheres of knowledge, science is now increasingly seen as a strictly instrumental system of control. Its use as a system of manipulation and its role in restricting human freedomnow parallel in everydetail itsuseas a means of natural manipulation.

—Bookchin, Murray pseudonym of  Lewis Herber

   Jimsaid it madehimall over tremblyand feverishtobe so close to freedom.

—Twain, Mark pseudonym of  Samuel Langhorne Clemens

Death is the supreme Festival on the road to freedom.

—Bonhoeffer, Dietrich

He that is a traveller must have the back of an ass to bear all, atonguelikethetail ofa dog toflatterall, themouthof a hog to eat all what is set before him, the ear of a merchant to hear all and say nothing; and if this be not the highest step of thraldom, there is no liberty or freedom.

—Nashe,Thomas

We consider ourselves to be free because no one in our society is allowed unlimited poweröno leader, faction, party or 'class', no majority, no government, church, corporation, trade, or professional association or trade union. The secret of its freedom is that it is composed of a multitude of organisations in the constitution of the best of which is reproduced that diffusion of power which is characteristic of the whole.

—Oakeshott, Michael Joseph

The bird, the beste, the fisch eke in the see, They lyve in fredome, euerich in his kynd, And I, a man, and lakkith libertee!

—James I

I loved you, so I drew these tides of men into my hands öand wrote my will across the sky in stars To earn you Freedom, the seven pillared worthy house, öthat your eyes might be shining for me When we came.

—Arabia

'To beginwith,' hesaid heavily,'you've gottounderstand that a seagull is an unlimited idea of freedom, an image of the Great Gull, and your whole body, from wingtip to wingtip, is nothing more than your thought itself.'

—Bach, Richard

All the resources of a superpower cannot isolate a man whohearsthevoiceoffreedom; avoicethat Iheard from the very chamber of my soul.

—Sharansky, Natan Anatoly Borisovich

Until you've lost your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was or what freedom really is.

—Mitchell, Margaret

   What's freedom for? To know eternity. I swear she cast a shadow white as stone. But who would count eternity in days? These old bones live to learn her wanton ways: (I measure time by how a body sways).

—Rogers,Will

A land of settled government, A land of just and old renown, Where Freedom slowly broadens down From precedent to precedent.

—Tennyson

The author of peace and lover of concord, in knowledge of whom standeth our eternal life, whose service is perfect freedom.

—Book of Common Prayer

There is a wind of nationalism and freedom blowing round the world, and blowing as strongly in Asia as elsewhere.

—Baldwin (of Bewdley), Stanley Baldwin, 1st Earl

The chief captain answered,With a great sum obtained I this freedom. And Paul said,But I was free born.

—Bible (NewTestament)

His stately ship of life, having weathered the severest storms of a troubled century, is anchored in tranquil waters, proofthatcourageand faith and zest for freedom are truly indestructible. The record of his triumphant passage will inspire free hearts all over the globe.

—Kennedy,John F(itzgerald)