Freedom Quotes

I was born, have lived, and will die free.

Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can exist apart from religious principle.

I let go. Lost in oblivion. Dark and silent and complete. I found freedom. Losing all hope was freedom.

Freedom of press and freedom of speech: What a blessing for a country while in the hands of honest, patriotic men; what a curse if in the hands of designing demagogues.

Earthly possessions dazzle our eyes and delude us into thinking that they can provide security and freedom from anxiety. Yet all the time they are the very source of anxiety.

Freedom is the fundamental condition for any growth.

Only free men can negotiate; prisoners cannot enter into contracts. Your freedom and mine cannot be separated.

Dictatorships are one-way streets. Democracy boasts two-way traffic.

A free spirit takes liberties even with liberty itself.

If we reach common ground, and can understand what everybody's going through, we can really affect change. And make sure that everyone is trated equally and has the same freedom.

No free government, or the blessings of liberty, can be preserved to any people, but by a firm adherence to justice, moderation, temperance, frugality, and virtue.

Freedom is the default position. Everything the government does takes away some of our freedom... That's why we have a constitution, to restrain the government.

One principle is the universality of freedom. I'm a freedom lover.

In true love, you attain freedom.

The greatest purveyor of violence in the world : My own Government, I can not be Silent.

Anger is the immune system of the soul.

I have great respect for the news and great respect for freedom of the press and all of that.

In a society that worships love, freedom and beauty, dance is sacred. It is a prayer for the future, a remembrance of the past and a joyful exclamation of thanks for the present.

Spiritual experiences are like mist, they will evaporate.

When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.

A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until a majority of voters discover that they can vote themselves largess out of the public treasury.

Freedom of Speech is Freedom of Music.

Foolishness is giving up without any effort or not giving up after putting in all your effort. Secret of freedom is putting all your effort and giving up!

In a land of freedom we are held hostage by the tyranny of political correctness.

Allow yourself to experience what it is to learn step by step the freedom that comes from being unattached to the outcome, but operating from an empowered heart.

Innovative organizations provide the freedom to act which arouses the desire to act.

One man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter

Retaliation is counter-poison and poison breeds more poison. The nectar of Love alone can destroy the poison of hate.

I am sure of the fact that Fidel and Chávez are commanders of the forces of freedom in America, to liberate America and the world.

Well, I'm a libertarian conservative, so I believe in limited government/maximum individual freedom.

The only freedom is the freedom from the known.

There ought to be limits to freedom.

We may idealize freedom, but when it comes to our habits, we are completely enslaved.

We cannot choose freedom established on a hierarchy of degrees of freedom, on a caste system of equality like military rank. We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.

As a stoic I must despise injury or, rather, I must not feel it, must not be affected by it so that it cannot violate the freedom of my soul.

When they locked up the social democrats, I remained silent; I was not a social democrat.

The best way to protect your own freedom is to watch everybody else's back. That's the essence of community.

There is price you pay when you want freedom of speech. You must be willing to accept the good the bad and the ugly when trying something out of the box.

Intellectual freedom depends upon material things.

We the people declare today that the most evident of truth that all of us are created equal ... that our individual freedom is inextricably bound to the freedom of every soul on Earth.

Freedom, in childhood, may be the right to be totally self-centered. … But freedom in old age is the ability to be the best of the self I have developed during all those years.

That there is also freedom in captivity, only a prisoner can claim. Coming from a prison guard, this statement would be blasphemy.

The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose.

Can you believe that, to say that ours is the only path when the fundamental thing in art is freedom! In art, there are millions of paths—as many paths as there are artists.

The extreme clarity of the desert light is equaled by the extreme individuation of desert life forms. Love flowers best in openness and freedom.

I tasted freedom and I really liked it.

Hire great people and give them freedom to be awesome.

I know no national boundary where the Negro is concerned. The whole world is my province until Africa is free.

Anyone who can appease a man's conscience can take his freedom away from him.

Seek freedom from the conformity of styles