quotations about freedom
If a man is not restrained from acting as his will determines, or constrained to act otherwise, then he has liberty, according to common notions of liberty, without taking into the idea that grand contradiction of all, the determinations of a man's free will being the effects of the determinations of his free will.--Nor have men commonly any notion of freedom consisting in indifference. For if so, then it would be agreeable to their notion, that the greater indifference men act with, the more freedom they act with; whereas the reverse is true. He that, in acting, proceeds with the fullest inclination, does what he does with the greatest freedom, according to common sense.
JONATHAN EDWARDS
Freedom of Will
We feel free because we lack the very language to articulate our unfreedom.
SLAVOJ ZIZEK
"Introduction: The Missing Ink", Welcome to the Desert of the Real!: Five Essays on September 11 and Related Dates
The guerdon is priceless;
Up, up every land,
And know the true gladness
Of freedom of soul.
HORATIO STONE
Freedom
The universal law of justice is: act externally in such a way that the free use of your will is compatible with the freedom of everyone according to a universal law.
IMMANUEL KANT
The Metaphysical Elements of Justice
Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose.
KRIS KRISTOFFERSON
"Me and Bobby McGee"
Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it on to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free.
RONALD REAGAN
address to the annual meeting of the Phoenix Chamber of Commerce, Mar. 30, 1967
Freedom would be meaningless without security in the home and in the streets.
NELSON MANDELA
speech, April 27, 1995