Freedom Quotes

The guiding principle that a policy of freedom for the individual is the only truly progressive policy remains as true today as it was in the nineteenth century.

Fight for life itself and everlasting freedom of the human spirit.

At 6 years old, the ice became a place for me to express myself. Because I was so shy off the ice, it became my safe haven, with music and freedom and self-expression. That was my emotional outlet.

A single party is ruling in Hungary, but democracy and the freedom of speech are still in place.

The law on the side of freedom is of great advantage only when there is power to make that law respected.

[Oppose] with manly firmness [any] invasions on the rights of the people.

You don't disarm any white community by confining yourself to any particular method. If you want freedom, then you should get freedom like Patrick Henry said, by whatever method is necessary.

I will not believe our labors are lost. I shall not die without a hope that light and liberty are on a steady advance.

Everywhere the human soul stands between a hemisphere of light and another of darkness on the confines of two everlasting empires, - Necessity and Free Will.

It is often safer to be in chains than to be free.

Freedom is the right to question and change the established way of doing things.

The freer the soul, the more abstract painting becomes.

Only by zealously guarding the rights of the most humble, the most unorthodox, and the most despised among us can freedom flourish and endure in our land.

Choice or freedom of choice is just an existential concern. But for photographers, it's a lifetime's preoccupation.

The word "freewill" (as also "self-determining power" [autexousiou] used by the Greek Fathers) does not occur in Scripture ... I Cor 7:37 does not mean freedom of the will.

Who we are looking for is who is looking.

What the USA Freedom Act did is it did two things. Number one, it ended the federal government's bulk collection of phone metadata of millions of law-abiding citizens.

When you become centered, suddenly there is great freedom because you know you are not the mind and you are not the body.

The plan was always to come to America, because Pakistan's a scary place. They don't have religious freedom. It's very poor, and there's a lot of violence and corruption.

Wherever on this planet ideals of personal freedom and dignity apply, there you will find the cultural inheritance of England.

Liberty is a different kind of pain from prison.

The greatest danger for artists is total freedom.

There is no definition of terrorism and there is still the reality that one person's terrorist is another person's freedom fighter.

To no form of religion is woman indebted for one impulse of freedom.

To bargain freedom for security is the devil's bargain. Having made the bargain, one enjoys neither freedom nor security.

Something about her eyes or voice has always suggested the hint of a free spirit, trapped in a Peck and Peck cage, dreaming of making rude noises at public gatherings of Republicans.

While any one is base, none can be entirely free and noble.

The real cure for what ails our health care system today is less government and more freedom.

The cause of freedom is identified with the destinies of humanity, and in whatever part of the world it gains ground by and by, it will be a common gain to all those who desire it.

Freedom does not mean license.

Enlightenment is freedom, the thought of enlightenment is prison. The truth exists in the moment. If we´re anywhere else, seeking something outside of the moment, we´re in prison.

The struggle for freedom and justice is now.

If I write for myself, I write a song and I bring in the musicians that are best suited to play it. There's a freedom there.

Is any man free except the one who can pass his life as he pleases?

The man who produces while others dispose of his product is a slave.

Illuminated emancipation, freedom, unalloyed and untainted bliss await you, but you have to choose to embark on the Inward Journey to discover it

I think that I am willing to risk my life in order to have more freedom.

We do not believe that in this country, freedom is reserved for the lucky, or happiness for the few.

Beware of those who would use violence, too often it is violence they want and neither truth nor freedom.

I'm getting hassled by a couple of people to release the CRU station temperature data. Don't any of you three tell anybody that the UK has a Freedom of Information Act.

We can enhance democracy by making it in line with its original vision. Read the dollar bill - E pluribus unum, out of many, one; novus ordo seclorum, a new order of the ages. That's democracy.

We peer so suspiciously at each other that we cannot see that we Canadians are standing on the mountaintop of human wealth, freedom and privilege.

Love is a feeling that comes into our hearts of our own choice for neither force nor harshness can limit the heart's freedom.

As a boy, I believed freedom for America meant freedom for me. There was a time I believed every word spoken.

Anarchy is the sure consequence of tyranny; for no power that is not limited by laws can ever be protected by them.

A man has to construct, invent, his freedom.

Commitment is not a barrier to freedom. Commitment is the *exercise* of freedom, the act of making a choice or decision and meaning it. The one without the other is meaningless.

I am known for a life spent in the struggle for freedom, and freedom includes the freedom of religion.

Painters and poets alike have always had license to dare anything! We know that, and we both claim and allow to others in their turn this indulgence.

Each man has his own vocation; his talent is his call. There is one direction in which all space is open to him.