[Quotations] Freedom

Quotations: Freedom

In my youth I stressed freedom, and in my old age I stress order. I have made the great discovery that liberty is a product of order.

Will Durant

All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. All these aspirations are directed toward ennobling man's life, lifting it from the sphere of mere physical existence and leading the individual towards freedom.

Albert Einstein

Intellectual freedom is the only guarantee of a scientific - democratic approach to politics, economic development, and culture.

Andrei Dmitrievich Sakharov

They that can give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty or safety.

Benjamin Franklin

Freedom of press is limited to those who own one.

H.L. Mencken

Liberty is the possibility of doubting, the possibility of making a mistake, the possibility of searching and experimenting, the possibility of saying No to any authority - literary, artistic, philosophic, religious, social, and even political.

Ignazio Silone

The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty.

James Madison

Those who suppress freedom always do so in the name of law and order.

John V. Lindsay

Creative ability and personal responsibility are strongest when the mind is free from supernatural belief and operates in an atmosphere of freedom and democracy.

Unknown

When the government fears the people, that is LIBERTY. When people fear the government, that is TYRANNY.

Unknown

Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom: it is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves.

William Pitt