Famous Quotes

"The more decisions that you are forced to make alone, the more you are aware of your freedom to choose."

Thornton Wilder 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 Thornton Wilder

• "The more decisions that you are forced to make alone, the more you are aware of your freedom to choose."

• "But there comes a moment in everybody's life when he must decide whether he'll live among the human beings or not - a fool among fools or a fool alone."

• "It is very necessary to have markers of beauty left in a world seemingly bent on making the most evil ugliness."

• "The best thing about animals is that they don't talk much."

• "We do not choose the day of our birth nor may we choose the day of our death, yet choice is the sovereign faculty of the mind."