Freedom Quotes

I am so happy that I didn't have children. Well, you know, because I've had freedom.

It is not the fact of liberty but the way in which liberty is exercised that ultimately determines whether liberty itself survives.

It is far better for a man to go wrong in freedom than to go right in chains.

A society based on the freedom to choose is better than a society based on the principles of socialism, communism and coercion.

The only freedom is freedom from illusion.

I liked sculpting better than painting. You have more freedom in sculpting.

He who once became aware of the power of Solidarity and who breathed the air of freedom will not be crushed.

Most people work all week to get to the weekend. A few work all weekend for years to get to freedom.

Freedom has been privatized - it is how you dress, what your sexual orientation is, choosing your own life. That's fine. But that is not what Thomas Jefferson was talking about.

Inner freedom is not guided by our efforts; it comes from seeing what is true.

Our job isn't to defend freedom of speech, but without freedom of speech we are dead. We can't live in a country without freedom of speech. I prefer to die than live like a rat.

Freedom or jail clips inserted, a baby's being born/ Same time a man is murdered, the beginning and end.

If I can feel freedom then I can create.

The good news of the kingdom is not freedom from hardship, suffering, and loss. It is the news of a Redeemer who has come to rescue me from myself.

Yet the Teaching is simple. Do what is right. Be pure. At the end of the way is freedom.

Paint with freedom. It gives you more mastery of the nature of paint.

Freedom requires religion like a slug requires salt

I have little patience with people who take the Bill of Rights for granted. The Bill of Rights, contained in the first ten amendments to the Constitution, is every American's guarantee of freedom.

History is at once freedom and necessity.

I hated school so intensely. It interfered with my freedom. I avoided the discipline by an elaborate technique of being absent-minded during classes.

True freedom means freeing oneself from the dictates of the ego and its accompanying emotions.

Absolute freedom is absolute nonsense! We gain freedom in anything through commitment, discipline, and fixed habit.

Freedom is a clear conscience.

I think art is a very important weapon to achieve human freedom

[The United States and Israel] share many common objectives ... chief of which is the building of a better world in which every nation can develop its resources and develop them in freedom and peace.

Although we have the potential to experience the freedom of a butterfly, we mysteriously prefer the small and fearful cocoon of ego.

True obedience is true freedom.

America means opportunity, freedom, power.

Freedom exists only with power.

The freedom to criticize judges and other public officials is necessary to a vibrant democracy.

Dread is a womanish debility in which freedom swoons. Psychologically speaking, the fall into sin always occurs in impotence. But dread is at the same time the most egotistic thing.

The real guarantee of freedom is an equilibrium of social forces in conflict, not the triumph of any one force.

That's the difference between governments and individuals. Governments don't care, individuals do.

I had rather hear my dog bark at a crow, than a man swear he loves me.

Liberalism is to freedom as anarchism is to anarchy.

I am a lover of truth, a worshipper of freedom, a celebrant at the altar of language and purity and tolerance.

Man is not free unless government is limited.

You are my butterfly and refuse to set you free.

The goal of intellectual life should be to see and understand what is true, not merely to adhere to a prevailing orthodoxy.

Free markets are the real people's revolution.

Someone that you have deprived of everything is no longer in your power. He is once again entirely free.

Whoever has learned to be anxious in the right way has learned the ultimate.

Look at your life as your main career and your divine classroom.

Mistaking insolence for freedom has always been the hallmark of the slave.

Perfect freedom is as necessary to the health and vigor of commerce as it is to the health and vigor of citizenship.

No one who lives in error is free.

When I get older, I will be stronger They’ll call me freedom, just like a Wavin’ Flag

The real measure of our power is the freedom and opportunity we create for others.

Freedom unexercised may be freedom forfeited. The preservation of freedom is in the hands of the people themselves - not of the government.

Like the herd animals we are, we sniff warily at the strange one among us.