Freedom Quotes

Make the Universal personal and you become richer, wiser and stronger. Make the personal Universal and you will find freedom, compassion and love

In a free society, one does not have to deal with those who are irrational. One is free to avoid them.

Civil liberty can be established on no foundation of human reason which will not at the same time demonstrate the right of religious freedom.

Abundance = choice = freedom. Scarcity = dependence = control.

Not every defeat of authority is a gain for individual freedom, nor every judicial rescue of a convict a victory for liberty.

I think service to others is the real key to winning our own personal freedom and the road to our own happiness, our own personal contentment and fulfillment.

Freedom is not overcoming what you think stands in your way. It is understanding that what is in your way is part of the way.

a society in which there is widespread economic insecurity can turn freedom into a barren and vapid right for millions of people.

The strength of this country lies in the Declaration of Independence and the Bill of Rights and the freedom of speech and thought.

To choose evil is to choose freedom, emancipation from all restraint.

The kind of man who demands that government enforce his ideas is always the kind whose ideas are idiotic.

When you realize that every stressful moment you experience is a gift that points you to your own freedom, life becomes very kind.

Liberty doesn't work as well in practice as it does in speeches.

Freedom of the press, freedom of the news media, must be subordinated to the overriding needs of the integrity of Singapore, and to the primacy of purpose of an elected government.

Freedom is the fundamental character of the will, as weight is of matter... That which is free is the will. Will without freedom is an empty word.

If mere mechanical efficiency can make everyone a martial artist, then all is well. Unfortunately, combat, like freedom, is something that can not be preconceived.

Nonviolence is not a weapon of the weak. It is a weapon of the strongest and bravest.

We do not know where death awaits us: so let us wait for it everywhere. To practice death is to practice freedom. A man who has learned how to die has unlearned how to be a slave.

Censorship reflects a society's lack of confidence in itself. It is a hallmark of an authoritarian regime.

You do not need to seek freedom in some distant land, for it exists within your own body, heart, mind, and soul.

He who does not enjoy solitude will not love freedom.

I have great respect for press freedoms. At the same time, however, a politician also has the freedom to decide whether he or she will accept an invitation to appear on a show or not.

We can begin to open our hearts to others when we have no hope of getting anything back. We just do it for its own sake.

I was intelligent enough to make up my own mind. I not only had freedom of choice, I had freedom of expression.

Freedom of thought is best promoted by the gradual illumination of men’s minds which follows from the advance of science.

Everything is relative in this world, where change alone endures.

Then I will speak upon the ashes.

Hypocrites get offended by the truth.

The part which American friendship played in helping us to win the freedom we enjoy in this part of Ireland has been gratefully recognized and acknowledged by our people.

Religious liberty might be supposed to mean that everybody is free to discuss religion. In practice it means that hardly anybody is allowed to mention it.

Government leaders are amazing. So often it seems they are the last to know what the people want.

In a free state there should be freedom of speech and thought.

We are, heart and soul, friends to the freedom of the press...It is a precious pest, and a necessary mischief, and there would be no liberty without it.

Not to have an adequate air force in the present state of the world is to compromise the foundations of national freedom and independence.

That freedom that Picasso afforded himself, to be an artist in a huge number of ways, seems to be a huge psychological liberation.

Marxists get up early to further their cause. We must get up even earlier to defend our freedom.

Freedom is based on truth, and no man is completely free as long as any part of his belief is based on error.

Let us rise in the moral power of womanhood; and give utterance to the voice of outraged mercy, and insulted justice, and eternal truth, and mighty love and holy freedom.

In nature, a child finds freedom, fantasy, and privacy: a place distant from the adult world, a separate peace.

Walk where your heart leads you, there are no restrictions and no burdens.

Put your hands where I can see 'em, so they look like 12 PM On the dot, see this Glock? Don't make me give these shells freedom.

America is today the hope of all honorable men who respect the rights of their fellow men and who believe in the principle of freedom and justice.

Obedience is the road to freedom.

I want the freedom to carve and chisel my own face, to staunch the bleeding with ashes, to fashion my own gods out of my entrails.

There is no freedom without justice.

Total freedom of expression does not compensate for lack of talent.

Dissent and dissenters have no monopoly on freedom. They must tolerate opposition. They must accept dissent from their dissent.

The trial of Zenger in 1735 was the germ of American freedom, the morning star of that liberty which subsequently revolutionized America.

If you surround yourself with talented people and you give them the freedom to achieve, then the work will never fail.

Government seems to operate on the principle that if even one individual is incapable of using his freedom competently, no one can be allowed to be free.