Freedom Quotes

Freedom comes from seeing the ignorance of your critics and discovering the emptiness of their virtue.

To do good whenever one can, to love liberty above all else, never to deny the truth, even though it be before the throne.

Freedom, justice and equality are three principles of life are with us before the fast, they should be with us during the fast and they should be with us after the fast.

The cross is the place where we find the freedom to accept ourselves without being proud and to challenge ourselves without being crushed.

It is amazing how, when all possibilities seem to be taken away from you, the minutest opening can become a great freedom.

We gain internal freedom through external actions.

Freedom is a hard-bought thing and millions are in chains, but they strain toward the new day drawing near.

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.

Without freedom there can be no morality.

Freedom is never free.

The electrical matter consists of particles extremely subtile, since it can permeate common matter, even the densest metals, with such ease and freedom as not to receive any perceptible resistance.

If you know that you are not sure, you have a chance to improve the situation. I want to demand this freedom for future generations.

It is not the simple statement of facts that ushers in freedom; it is the constant repetition of them that has this liberating effect. Tolerance is the result not of enlightenment, but of boredom.

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.

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.

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.

The more men you make free, the more freedom is strengthened, and the more men you give an interest in the welfare and safety of the State, the greater is the security of the State.

A radical is one who speaks the truth.

For the first time the peasant has seen real freedom - freedom to eat his bread, freedom from starvation.

Without freedom of speech, there is no modern world, just a barbaric one.

I do outlines when I'm writing with someone, but they also need to have a certain amount of freedom

We must plan for freedom, and not only for security, if for no other reason than only freedom can make security more secure.

Aesthetic freedom is like free speech; it is, indeed, a form of free speech.

In order to have enough freedom, it is necessary to have too much.

Marks on paper are free - free speech - press - pictures all go together I suppose.

What you call freedom is still nothing but choosing how to steer straight into the heart of what chooses you.

By the way, when I say cut taxes, I don't mean fiddle with the code. I mean abolish the income tax and the IRS, and replace them with nothing.

You can't stop us on the road to freedom, you can't stop us cause our eyes can see.

The chief safeguard of personal freedom in a democratic society is the anarchy and disorder of capitalist individualism.

We have to uphold a free press and freedom of speech - because, in the end, lies and misinformation are no match for the truth.

How can you be conservative and justify wiretapping people without a warrant? We're supposed to be the party of personal freedom and civil liberties.

Peace purchased at the cost of any part of our national integrity is fit only for slaves, and even when purchased for such a price it is a delusion, for it cannot last.

Art lives on constraint and dies of freedom.

Style is engineering that gives you freedom.

I'm all about freedom in art. I'm from Texas, so when someone tells you which way to ride your horse, you think 'I'll just go to a different ranch. You guys are riding it backwards anyway.

As well might you leave the fairies to plough your land or the idle winds to sow it, as sit down and wait for freedom.

The more security you seek, the less freedom you have.

To me, music has to be about freedom. It's the most important thing in my life.

The majority, oppressing an individual, is guilty of a crime, abuses its strength, and by acting on the law of the strongest breaks up the foundations of society.