Freedom Quotes

The United States of America will never be intimidated by thugs and assassins. The killers will fail, and the Iraqi people will live in freedom.

Without freedom of expression, good taste means nothing.

It is a besetting vice of democracies to substitute public opinion for law. This is the usual form in which masses of men exhibit their tyranny.

When I was in jail, I was a lot of people's favorite person. I practically ran the jail. I had more freedom than the police.

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.

There is an uncalculating, unaffected, unbound excitement in us when the Spirit is given freedom to express Himself through us.

The general interest of the masses might take the place of the insight of genius if it were allowed freedom of action.

It is as hard for the good to suspect evil, as it is for the bad to suspect good.

Our plans protect freedom and opportunity, and our blueprint is the Constitution of the United States.

Obedience allows God’s blessings to flow without constraint. He will bless His obedient children with freedom from bondage and misery. And He will bless them with more light.

After all, if freedom of speech means anything, it means a willingness to stand and let people say things with which we disagree, and which do weary us considerably.

I have taken a moment here to rest, to steal a view of the glorious vista that surrounds me, to look back on the distance I have come.

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

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

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

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

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

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

The test of democracy is freedom of criticism.

Freedom costs you a great deal.

Ultimately, there is the freedom to take the consequences.

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.

[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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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 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.

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

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

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.

Without freedom there can be no morality.

I want a sofa, as I want a friend, upon which I can repose familiarly. If you can't have intimate terms and freedom with one and the other, they are of no good.

Most importantly, nothing has happened to change my conviction that freedom and the love of liberty remain the essential defining attributes of our national character as a people.

It is because freedom means the renunciation of direct control of individual efforts that a free society can make use of so much more knowledge than the mind of the wisest ruler could comprehend.

When you're in the minority, it doesn't matter what you're agenda is, you're not going to have the degree of freedom that you have as a member of the majority.

But restraint is the only one sort of control, and absence of restraint isn't freedom. It's not control that's lacking when one feels 'free', but the objectionable control of force.

Freedom always comes with a price.

I do not want to see any of the people cringing supplicants for the favor of the Government, when they should all be independent masters of their own destiny.

Poverty can lead to tyranny. Capitolism creates freedom. If the poor had a better image of the rich they could be just like them.

The prescription for better health care is more freedom to innovate, not remote-control surgery from Washington.

Everybody's for democracy in principle. It's only in practice that the thing gives rise to stiff objections.

Mindful and creative, a child who has neither a past, nor examples to follow, nor value judgments, simply lives, speaks and plays in freedom.

We need to teach people to refuse to install non-free plug-ins; we need to teach people to care more about their long-term interest of freedom than their immediate desire to view a particular site.

Freedom really means the freedom to make mistakes.

Steve Jobs, the pioneer of the computer as a jail made cool, designed to sever fools from their freedom, has died.

The meaning of economic freedom is this: that the individual is in a position to choose the way in which he wants to integrate himself into the totality of society.