Oh, how I longed to be with Christ, to be employed in the glorious work of angels, and with an angel’s freedom, vigour, and delight! And yet how willing was I to stay awhile on earth, that I might do something, if the Lord pleased, for his interest in the world!
—David Brainerd
Men say they don’t want to give up their freedom. There is no freedom until a man knows the Lord Jesus Christ. A man is slave to sin, to his passions and lusts until Christ snaps the fetters and sets him free.
—D. L. Moody
The choice for mankind lies between freedom and happiness and for the great bulk of mankind, happiness is better.
—George Orwell
Our strange people – both strong and sad… Had heroes – and no one knew them… Always loved freedom – and always lived as a slave… Created the riches of songs – and does not know them…
Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.
—Sigmund Freud
Analysis does not set out to make pathological reactions impossible, but to give the patient’s ego freedom to decide one way or another.
—Sigmund Freud
But I don’t want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin.
—Aldous Huxley
Men say they don’t want to give up their freedom. There is no freedom until a man knows the Lord Jesus Christ. A man is slave to sin, to his passions and lusts until Christ snaps the fetters and sets him free.
—D. L. Moody
I have never thought, for my part, that man’s freedom consists in his being able to do whatever he wills, but that he should not, by any human power, be forced to do what is against his will.
—Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The spirit of a nation is reflected in its history, its religion, and the degree of its political freedom.
—Georg Hegel
Nothing is more seductive for a man than his freedom of conscience, but nothing is a greater cause of suffering.
—Fyodor Dostoevsky
If freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.
—George Washington
With freedom, flowers, books, and the moon, who could not be perfectly happy?
—Oscar Wilde
Freedom is what we do with what is done to us.
—Jean-Paul Sartre
How absurd men are! They never use the liberties they have, they demand those they do not have. They have freedom of thought, they demand freedom of speech.
—Søren Kierkegaard
Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.
—Søren Kierkegaard
Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost.
—Thomas Jefferson
If you want to love you must serve, if you want freedom you must die.
—Georg Hegel
People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.
—Søren Kierkegaard
To renounce freedom is to renounce one’s humanity, one’s rights as a man and equally one’s duties.
—Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Through discipline comes freedom.
—Aristotle
What, then, is the government? An intermediary body established between the subjects and the sovereign for their mutual communication, a body charged with the execution of the laws and the maintenance of freedom, both civil and political.
—Jean-Jacques Rousseau
We have not a deliverance from trouble, a recovering of health, ease of pain, freedom from any evil that ever laid hold upon us, but it is given us on the intercession of Jesus Christ.
—John Owen
Freedom is obedience to self-formulated rules.
—Aristotle
If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.
—George Washington
Freedom is participation in power.
—Cicero
Oh, how I longed to be with Christ, to be employed in the glorious work of angels, and with an angel’s freedom, vigour, and delight! And yet how willing was I to stay awhile on earth, that I might do something, if the Lord pleased, for his interest in the world!
—David Brainerd
There is wonderful freedom in this life of simply following Jesus. This path is straight and plain.
—R. A. Torrey
A truly gracious soul cannot long subsist without secret prayer. It is true – there is not always an equal freedom and delight, a like enlargement and comfort in those retirements, but yet he cannot be without them.
—John Flavel
Freedom is not to not restrain yourself, but to control yourself.
—Fyodor Dostoevsky