Famous Quotes

"I've never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It's probably because they have forgotten their own."

Margaret Atwood 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 Margaret Atwood

• "Another belief of mine that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise."

• "Gardening is not a rational act."

• "I hope that people will finally come to realize that there is only one 'race' - the human race - and that we are all members of it."

• "The Eskimos had fifty-two names for snow because it was important to them: there ought to be as many for love."

• "A word after a word after a word is power."