Freedom Quotes

I know of no country in which there is so little independence of mind and real freedom of discussion as in America.

The American experience influenced my understanding of individuality, basic human rights, freedom of expression and the rights and responsibilities of citizens.

Freedom begins with what we teach our children. That is why Jews became a people whose passion is education, whose heroes are teachers and whose citadels are schools.

You see, freedom has a way of destroying things.

In my youth I stressed freedom, and in my old age I stress order. I have made the great discovery that liberty is a product of order.

The military state is the final form to which every planned economy tends rapidly.

Nature smiles at the union of freedom and equality in our utopias. For freedom and equality are sworn and everlasting enemies, and when one prevails the other dies.

Money equals freedom.

Truth will never imprison you. Only the repression of your conscience will. This is what is meant by 'THE TRUTH WILL SET YOU FREE'.

When truth is no longer free, freedom is no longer real: the truths of the police are the truths of today.

Freedom and order are not incompatible... truth is strength... free discussion is the very life of truth.

...often, stepping outside your comfort zone is not careless irresponsibility, but a necessary act of obedience.

The cloud is free only to go with the wind. The rain is free only in falling.

Most women are one man away from welfare.

As our federal government has grown too large and too powerful, the real loss has been the freedom of people to govern their own lives and participate fully in the American dream.

Happiness is achieved when you stop waiting for your life to begin and start making the most of the moment you are in.

The conjunction of ruling and dreaming generates tyranny.

We must be free, but to have real freedom, you must be wild and free yourself.

There are tensions abroad where people don't understand our attachment to the freedom of speech, we've seen the protests, and I would say that in France all beliefs are respected.

Law and freedom must be indivisible partners. For without law, there can be no freedom, only choas and disorder; and without freedom, law is but a cynical veneer for injustice and oppression.

Freedom is when you really get your own powers which are within you.

Real freedom will come when U.S. soldiers in Iraq turn their guns on their superiors.

The right to religious freedom has its foundation, not in the church or society or the state, but in the very dignity of the human person.

Coercion may prevent many transgressions; but it robs even actions which are legal of a part of their beauty. Freedom may lead to many transgressions, but it lends even to vices a less ignoble form.

The essence of the free press is the reliable, reasonable and moral nature of freedom.

There is something akin to freedom in having a lover who has no control over you, except that which he gains by kindness and attachment.

Nothing but love has made the dog lose his wild freedom, to become the servant of man.

Freedom means the supremacy of human rights everywhere. Our support goes to those who struggle to gain those rights or keep them.

Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in his never wholly successful attempts to liberate himself from necessity.

[I]t is religion and morality alone which can establish the principles upon which freedom can securely stand. The only foundation of a free constitution is pure virtue.

An almost hysterical antagonism toward the gold standard is one issue which unites statists of all persuasions. They seem to sense... that gold and economic freedom are inseparable.

Ultimately, there is the freedom to take the consequences.

Freedom costs you a great deal.

The test of democracy is freedom of criticism.

The masculine in each of us struggles for greater freedom and tries to achieve it through financial, creative, or political challenges.

If we are free from attachment, we can easily recognize ourselves in other people, in different forms of manifestation, and then we don't have to suffer.

The laws of cricket tell of the English love of compromise between a particular freedom and a general orderliness, or legality.

An essential part of power is the freedom not to think too deeply

The trailblazers in human, academic, scientific and religious freedom have always been nonconformists.

I am not so much for the freedom of religion as I am for the religion of freedom.

To a book collector, you see, the true freedom of all books is somewhere on his shelves.

Freedom in the practical sense is the independence of the power of choice from necessitation by impulses of sensibility

I think there is a danger that an environmental crisis can be used in precisely the same way as the terrorist threat can be used in terms of giving up freedom.

Economic freedom is ... an indispensable means toward the achievement of political freedom.

Freedom unexercised may become freedom forfeited.

Freedom from clinging gives room in our hearts to grow.

The real movement of history, it turns out, is fueled not by matter but by spirit, by the will to freedom.

I believe in freedom, I'm for a world without borders. But that's an ideal. On a practical level, I'm for a secular state where religion only plays a minor role.

People aren't angels woven of light, but neither are they beasts to be driven into stalls.

As an artist, you have a choice. That gave me the freedom to do what I want to.