Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.
Sigmund Freud, Civilization and Its Discontents
Freedom
Rose Kennedy Quote – Birds sing after a storm …
Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn’t people feel as free to delight in whatever sunlight remains to them?
Rose Kennedy
Hubert H. Humphrey – Freedom is hammered out …
Freedom is hammered out on the anvil of discussion, dissent, and debate.
~ Hubert H. Humphrey
George Orwell – If liberty means anything …
If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
~ George Orwell
Anonymous – To be born free …
To be born free is an accident; To live free a responsibility; To die free is an obligation.
~ Anonymous
Victor E. Frankl – Everything can be taken …
Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms – to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.
~ Victor E. Frankl
Harriet Rubin – Freedom is actually …
Freedom is actually a bigger game than power. Power is about what you can control. Freedom is about what you can unleash.
~ Harriet Rubin
Alan Keyes – Freedom is first of all …
Freedom is first of all a responsibility before the God from whom we come.
~ Alan Keyes
John F. Kennedy – If a free society cannot …
If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
~ John F. Kennedy
Colin Powell – The freedom to be your best …
The freedom to be your best means nothing unless you are willing to do your best.
~ Colin Powell
Franklin D. Roosevelt Quote – In the truest sense …
In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved.