Freedom Quotes

Face the truth squarely. In politics that is always the best and the only correct attitude.

Freedom of speech and of the press are essential to the enlightenment of a free people and in restraining those who wield power.

Freedom and relationship are polar opposites - they both exist on the same continuum. You DO want a relationship - and you DO want freedom - what you really want is BALANCE, you want wholeness.

There is freedom when you realize that you are just a witness to all that is happening.

We, too, born to freedom, and believing in freedom, are willing to fight to maintain freedom. We, and all others who believe as deeply as we do, would rather die on our feet than live on our knees.

Capitalism is not an 'ism.' It is closer to being the opposite of an 'ism,' because it is simply the freedom of ordinary people to make whatever economic transactions they can mutually agree to.

Our objective is complete freedom, justice and equality by any means necessary.

Takeoff isn't scary at all - just the landing. Once you're in the air, you feel that sense of freedom of no limits.

When forced to work within a strict framework, the imagination is taxed to its utmost and will produce its richest ideas. Given total freedom, the work is likely to sprawl.

The boundary to what we can accept is the boundary to our freedom.

Now that she had nothing to lose, she was free.

You can only be free if I am free.

Inherited Will, The Destiny of the Age, and The Dreams of the People. As long as people continue to pursue the meaning of Freedom, these things will never cease to be!" - Gol D. Roger

If freedom is short of weapons, we must compensate with willpower.

It's not an easy journey, to get to a place where you forgive people. But it is such a powerful place, because it frees you.

The attitude is we live and let live. This is actually an amazing change in values in a rather short time and it's an example of freedom from religion.

I think everybody deserves freedom. Freedom is such an abstract word, but it's all we need.

The greatest value comes from loving yourself for who you are. I've been teaching myself this for years, so I hope that by showing what I've learned, others can find the same freedom and joy I have.

Individuality is freedom lived.

No union exists between church and state, and perfect freedom of opinion is guaranteed to all sects and creeds.

The law is agnostic about truth. It's very skeptical of ultimate truth. That's why freedom of speech permits lies to be told.

Our march to freedom is irreversible. We must not allow fear to stand in our way.

What I am is an encourager. I encourage all who deserve freedom to fight for that. And if you can't win by yourself, then find other people to be in solidarity with.

God, freedom, and immortality are untenable in the light of pure reason.

Flying was a very tangible freedom. In those days, it was beauty, adventure, discovery - the epitome of breaking into new worlds.

Ice dance should not be seen as a rigid conformist form of figure skating. There is a great deal of freedom and originality to be had.

There is no need to struggle to be free; the absence of struggle is in itself freedom.

Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen!

The Divine Plan is one of Freedom. The inherent nature of man is ever seeking to express itself in terms of freedom, because freedom is the birthright of every living soul.

...never try to follow another's path for that is his way, not yours. When that path is found, you have nothing to do but fold your arms and the tide will carry you to freedom.

America must remain, at any cost, the custodian of freedom, human dignity and economic security. The United States must be strong, so that no nation may dare attack.

Perhaps freedom from ideas of freedom - is the sweetest freedom of all.

The spirit of improvement is not always a spirit of liberty, for it may aim at forcing improvements on an unwilling people.

To announce that there must be no criticism of the president... is morally treasonable to the American public.

The last stage but one of every civilisation, is characterised by the forced political unification of its constituent parts, into a single greater whole.

Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with keener fangs than freedom never endangered.

Freedom has ceased to be a birthright; it has come to mean whatever we are still permitted to do.

Collectivism and freedom are mortal enemies. Only one will survive

True freedom is to have power over oneself for everything.

Democracy is constructed like an edifice, freedom by freedom, right by right, until it reaches its snapping point.

There is no inverse relationship between freedom and security. Less of one does not lead to more of the other. People with no rights are not safe from terrorist attack.

America is a friend of freedom everywhere, but a custodian only of our own.

It takes getting everything you ever wanted and then losing it, to know what true freedom is.

Between stimulus and response is the freedom to choose.

Whenever freedom is made into the absolute, the result is not freedom but anarchism. Freedom must be under law, or it is not freedom.

The only freedom supposed to be left to the masses is that of grazing on the ration of simulacra the system distributes to each individual.

There is more than one kind of freedom," said Aunt Lydia. "Freedom to and freedom from. In the days of anarchy, it was freedom to. Now you are being given freedom from. Don't underrate it.

Can there be any liberty where property is taken away without consent?

Freedom [should not be] conceived negatively as exemption from social influences or situational constraints. Rather...positively as the exercise of self-influence to bring about desired results.

Caged birds sing of freedom, free birds fly.