Freedom Quotes

I just loved the feeling of flying. I could jump six feet bareback and it was the closest thing to being Pegasus and flying next to God. It's the most liberating freedom-making feeling in the world.

[On her Freedom Farm Cooperative:] If you give a hungry man food, he will eat it. [But] if you give him land, he will grow his own food.

Money buys you the freedom to live your life the way you want.

Part of being a feminist is giving other women the freedom to make choices you might not necessarily make yourself.

The First Amendment is often inconvenient. But that is besides the point. Inconvenience does not absolve the government of its obligation to tolerate speech.

Freedom can be preserved only if it is treated as a supreme principle which must not be sacrificed for particular advantages.

This is a matter of freedom. If you don't have many possessions then you don't need to work all your life like a slave to sustain them, and therefore you have more time for yourself.

A simple equation exists between freedom and numbers: the more people, the less freedom.

Life is a tragedy of nutrition

Modern man is a prisoner who thinks he is free because he refrains from touching the walls of his dungeon.

Free speech means the right to shout 'theatre' in a crowded fire.

No people and no part of a people shall be held against its will in a political association that it does not want.

Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner.

I thank God that I have lived to see my country independent and free. She may long enjoy her independence and freedom if she will. It depends on her virtue.

Who ordained that a few should have the land of Britain as a perquisite, who made 10,000 people owners of the soil and the rest of us trespassers in the land of our birth?

Government is not a solution to our problem government is the problem.

The greatest lesson we can learn from the past. . . is that freedom is at the core of every successful nation in the world.

Freedom only comes through persistent revolt, through persistent agitation, through persistently rising up against the system of evil.

Freedom and the power to choose should not be the privilege of wealth. They are the birthright of every American.

There is a point where political correctness becomes an acid that erodes freedom.

Be not dishearten'd -- Affection shall solve the problems of Freedom yet; Those who love each other shall become invincible.

I believe in freedom for women to have equal rights - the right to work, the right to hold high positions, the right to take custody of their children after divorcing.

We have not come here to take prisoners But to surrender ever more deeply To freedom and joy.

We'd all like to vote for the best man but he's never a candidate.

We don't have the freedom of speech to talk about the weather. We have the first amendment so we can say some very controversial things.

Gorbachev gave us freedom of worship and freedom of speech and freedom to see what was going on and freedom to vote, but that freedom won't last unless it is underpinned by economic freedom.

A despot doesn't fear eloquent writers preaching freedom- he fears a drunken poet who may crack a joke that will take hold.

In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican.

Independence is my happiness, and I view things as they are, without regard to place or person; my country is the world, and my religion is to do good.

Freedom of mind is the proof of one's existence.

Long live freedom and damn the ideologies.

In a democracy dissent is an act of faith. Like medicine, the test of its value is not in its taste, but in its effects.

A liberated woman is one who feels confident in herself, and is happy in what she is doing. She is a person who has a sense of self-it all comes down to a freedom of choice.

A small nation, faced with the denial of its sovereignty — indeed, of its very existence — reminded us that the price of freedom is high but never so costly as the loss of freedom.

Freedom has its life in the hearts, the actions, the spirit of men and so it must be daily earned and refreshed - else like a flower cut from its life-giving roots, it will wither and die.

You take everything I've made the last 16 years. I'll take my freedom.

I like freedom. I wake up in the morning and say, 'I don't know, should I have a popsicle or a donut?' You know, who knows?

Real freedom must include economic security.

We will not be intimidated or pushed off the world stage by people who do not like what we stand for, and that is, freedom, democracy and the fight against disease, poverty and terrorism.

As human beings, we are endowed with freedom of choice, and we cannot shuffle off our responsibility upon the shoulders of God or nature. We must shoulder it ourselves. It is our responsibility.

I used to think freedom meant doing whatever you want. It means knowing who you are, what you are supposed to be doing on this earth, and then simply doing it.

No one is truly free, they are a slave to wealth, fortune, the law, or other people restraining them from acting according to their will.

I want freedom, the right to self-expression , everybody's right to beautiful, radiant things.

Nonresistance, nonjudgment, and nonattachment are the three aspects of true freedom and enlightened living.

You can never have a revolution in order to establish a democracy. You must have a democracy in order to have a revolution.

True freedom is the right to say something that others don't want to hear.

We must clearly understand that when we give the child freedom and independence, we are giving freedom to a worker already braced for action, who cannot live without working and being active.

I need not add that freedom is a dangerous thing. But it is hardly possible that we are all cowards.

Be brave, be bold, be free.

I believe that Islam and freedom are incompatible.