Famous Quotes

"Many politicians are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition that no people ought to be free till they are 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 learned to swim."

Thomas B. Macaulay on Freedom

More quotes about Freedom

• "Freedom prospers when religion is vibrant and the rule of law under God is acknowledged."

  Ronald Reagan on Freedom

• "For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others."

  Nelson Mandela on Freedom

• "If you want total security, go to prison. There you're fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking... is freedom."

  Dwight D. Eisenhower on Freedom

• "I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do. I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do."

  Robert A. Heinlein on Freedom

• "Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err."

  Mahatma Gandhi on Freedom

More quotes by Thomas B. Macaulay

• "We hold that the most wonderful and splendid proof of genius is a great poem produced in a civilized age."

• "The English Bible - a book which, if everything else in our language should perish, would alone suffice to show the whole extent of its beauty and power."

• "The object of oratory alone in not truth, but persuasion."

• "The English Bible - a book which, if everything else in our language should perish, would alone suffice to show the whole extent of its beauty and power."

• "There is only one cure for the evils which newly acquired freedom produces, and that cure is freedom."