Freedom Quotes

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

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 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.

Books that distribute things... with as daring a freedom as we use in dreams, put us on our feet again.

If the Resurrection is resurrection from the dead, all hope and freedom are in spite of death.

Where free unions and collective bargaining are forbidden, freedom is lost.

Political freedom means the absence of coercion of a man by his fellow men.

Freedom is the last, best hope of earth.

In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free - honorable alike in what we give and what we preserve. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope of earth.

The thought of a happiness that comes from outside the person, brings him sadness. But the recognition in the value of one's will and the freedom granted by its uplifting, brings great joy.

Freedom. I will not give you up.

The man who asks of freedom anything other than itself is born to be a slave.

I believe that the most essential element of our defense of freedom is our insistence on speaking out for the cause of religious liberty.

Nothing is more beautiful than freedom of the body.

Immigrants used to come to America seeking freedom of speech, freedom of religion, and freedom from government. Now they come looking for free health care, free education, and a free lunch.

The camera gave me an incredible freedom. It gave me the ability to parade through the world and look at people and things very, very closely.

What we have to fight for...is the freedom and independence of the fatherland, so that our people may be enabled to fulfill the mission assigned to it by the Creator.

Do not bite at the bait of pleasure, till you know there is no hook beneath it.

Freedom is a road seldom traveled by the multitude.

The greatest fallacy of democracy is that everyone's opinion is worth the same.

Democracy is the process by which people choose the man who'll get the blame.

Liberty is not to be enjoyed, indeed it cannot exist, without the habits of just subordination; it consists, not so much in removing all restraint from the orderly, as in imposing it on the violent.

Neither the chains of dictatorship nor the fetters of oppression can keep down the forces of freedom for long.

Everyone wants a voice in human freedom. There's a fire burning inside all of us.

There's a freedom you begin to feel the closer you get to Austin, Texas.

the average man does not want to be free. he simply wants to be safe.

The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in the insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning but without understanding.

Take advice, but not orders. Only give yourself orders. Abraham Lincoln once said, 'Since I will be no one's slave, I will be no one's master.'

It is the English-speaking nations who, almost alone, keep alight the torch of Freedom.

America is best described by one word, freedom.

Ask the first man you meet what he means by defending freedom, and he'll tell you privately he means defending the standard of living.

Freedom' is the most expensive possession there is; it has to be paid for with loneliness.

The time has come to recover the valiant courage of our forefathers, who understood that faith and freedom are inseparable, and that they are worth fighting for.

The man who does not do his own thinking is a slave, and is a traitor to himself and to his fellow-men.

Love is a crocodile just above the water line waiting to attack the innocent herbivore of my freedom.

The renowned seventh-century Zen master Seng-tsan taught that true freedom is being "without anxiety about imperfection.

For know that no one is free, except Zeus.

Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.

I knew I was alone in a way that no earthling has ever been before.

No state, no government exists. What does in fact exist is a man, or a few men, in power over many men.

To express yourself in freedom, you must die to everything of yesterday. From the 'old', you derive security; from the 'new', you gain the flow.

Freedom to do what one likes is really bondage, while being free to do what one must, what is right, is real freedom.

Pain is inevitable as long as you are identified with your mind.

We must understand that the highest form of freedom carries with it the greatest measure of discipline.

Your determination, selflessness and courage have brought the freedom struggle towards its fulfillment.

Only the mind that has emptied itself of the known is creative. That is creation. What it creates has nothing to do with it. Freedom from the known is the state of a mind that is in creation.

I am totally committed to maintaining the freedom and equality America has to provide to every citizen.

Freedom is not letting your yesterday affect your today.

There can be no friendship where there is no freedom. Friendship loves a free air, and will not be fenced up in straight and narrow enclosures.

Architecture and architectural freedom are above all a social issue that must be seen from inside a political structure, not from outside it.