Freedom Quotes

Only the freedom of mind can prevent the state from becoming totalitarian and from issuing totalitarian demands.

Friedrich Durrenmatt

The freedom of each individual can only be the freedom of all.

Friedrich Durrenmatt

The proletariat uses the State not in the interests of freedom but in order to hold down its adversaries, and as soon as it becomes possible to speak of freedom the State as such ceases to exist.

Friedrich Engels

Freedom and Justice are twin sisters.

Friedrich Ebert

Without democracy there is no freedom. Violence, no matter who is using it, is always reactionary.

Friedrich Ebert

Freedom is the recognition of necessity.

Friedrich Engels

Freedom of the press is not an end in itself but a means to the end of achieving a free society.

Felix Frankfurter

When I was in jail, I was a lot of people's favorite person. I practically ran the jail. I had more freedom than the police.

Flavor Flav

The Internet offers authors and their readers a new diversity of opportunities and freedom.

Frederick Forsyth

Ever since taking office, the Obama administration has sought to accommodate Islamist demands that freedom of expression be curbed, lest it offend Muslims and stoke violence. For example, in 2009, the administration co-sponsored a United Nations Huma...

Frank Gaffney

You have freedom, so you have to make choices - and at the point when I make a choice, the building starts to look like a Frank Gehry building. It's a signature.

Frank Gehry

To declaim freedom verses seems like a poem within a poem; freedom requires guns, it requires arms, but no feet.

Franz Grillparzer

Wealth is a tool of freedom, but the pursuit of wealth is the way to slavery.

Frank Herbert

'Emergencies' have always been the pretext on which the safeguards of individual liberty have been eroded.

Friedrich August von Hayek

Freedom granted only when it is known beforehand that its effects will be beneficial is not freedom.

Friedrich August von Hayek

Perhaps the fact that we have seen millions voting themselves into complete dependence on a tyrant has made our generation understand that to choose one's government is not necessarily to secure freedom.

Friedrich August von Hayek

We must face the fact that the preservation of individual freedom is incompatible with a full satisfaction of our views of distributive justice.

Friedrich August von Hayek

In the end, religion teaches us to value truth, justice and freedom.

F. Sionil Jose

Democracy may have arisen in the West as the way of striving for the universal aspiration to dignity and freedom, but it isn't alien to the underlying concepts that infuse religion and moral philosophy everywhere.

Flora Lewis

My desire to curtail undue freedom of speech extends only to such public areas as restaurants, airports, streets, hotel lobbies, parks, and department stores. Verbal exchanges between consenting adults in private are as of little interest to me as th...

Fran Lebowitz

One of the unsung freedoms that go with a free press is the freedom not to read it.

Ferdinand Mount