Freedom Quotes
The most serious dangers for American freedom and the American way of life do not come from without.
A nice, easy place for freedom of speech to be eroded is comics, because comics are a natural target whenever an election comes up.
We grant no dukedoms to the few, We hold like rights and shall; Equal on Sunday in the pew, On Monday in the mall. For what avail the plough or sail, Or land, or life, if freedom fail?
The western world, the free world, loses what it cherishes most, and that is freedom and liberty we've seen for a couple of hundred years in this grand experiment that we call democracy.
How can we keep the government we create from becoming a Frankenstein that will destroy the very freedom we establish it to protect? Freedom is a rare and delicate plant.
Because I am untrained I approach my designs in an unconstrained way and I feel a freedom in this. It is unconventional but it means outcomes are not limited by traditional boundaries.
It is not freedom from conditions, but it is freedom to take a stand toward the conditions.
Our liberties, our values, all for which America stands is safe today because brave men and women have been ready to face the fire at freedom's front. And we thank God for them.
For men in a state of freedom had thatch for their shelter, while slavery dwells beneath marble and gold.
This, then, is freedom in the external life of man-that he is independent of the arbitrary power of his fellows.
But I do believe that a woman's truest place is in a home, with a husband and with children, and with large freedom, pecuniary freedom, personal freedom, and the right to vote
Freedom in art, freedom in society, this is the double goal towards which all consistent and logical minds must strive.
The current total of countries in the world with First Amendments is one. You have guaranteed freedom of speech. Other countries don't have that.
We have more possibilities, more freedom, more options than any people who have ever lived. Yet there is more junk, more mediocrity, more garbage to sort through than ever, too.
We have sold our birthright of freedom and justice for a mess of national security.
Humility is the distinguishing virtue of the believer in freedom; arrogance, of the paternalist.
Because if you don't stand up for the stuff you don't like, when they come for the stuff you do like, you've already lost.
True freedom comes about through confidence in liberating any and all thought states.
Men fight for freedom; then they begin to accumulate laws to take it away from themselves.
The terrorists are fighting freedom with all their cunning and cruelty because freedom is their greatest fear - and they should be afraid, because freedom is on the march.
All free men, wherever they may live, are citizens of Berlin. And therefore, as a free man, I take pride in the words 'Ich bin ein Berliner!'
A day will come when there will be no battlefields, but markets opening to commerce and minds opening to ideas.
Banning books gives us silence when we need speech. It closes our ears when we need to listen. It makes us blind when we need sight.
Free societies...are societies in motion, and with motion comes tension, dissent, friction. Free people strike sparks, and those sparks are the best evidence of freedom's existence.
As opposed to trying to make a kiss look romantic or sweet or passionate, it's kind of fun to just have the freedom to make it look weird, goofy and awkward.
Christians walk as strangers in the world: They are untamed. They are free. To persevere with love, yet untamed by man, is often what leaves that open space for divine revelation when God so wills.
It's a bad word, 'belong.' Especially when you put it with somebody you love ... You can't own a human being.
I am in favor of complete freedom of information and of free access to the new communication tools, in particular the Internet.
What good to me is the festive garment of freedom when I am in a slave's smock at home?
It is easy to forget now, how effervescent and free we all felt that summer.
When faith in our freedom gives way to fear of our freedom, silencing the minority view becomes the operative protocol.
In the end they will lay their freedom at our feet and say to us, Make us your slaves, but feed us.
The survival of liberty in our land increasingly depends on the success of liberty in other lands. The best hope for peace in our world is the expansion of freedom in all the world.
Take young researchers, put them together in virtual seclusion, give them an unprecedented degree of freedom and turn up the pressure by fostering competitiveness.
I like the freedom of research. Plus, if I fail in science, I know I can always survive because I have an M.D. This has been my insurance policy.
Better guilt than the terrible burden of freedom and responsibility.
Humanism: an exaltation of freedom, but one limited by our need to exercise it as an integral part of nature and society.
Freedom is not doing what we want, but what we should.
Most men today cannot conceive of a freedom that does not involve somebody's slavery.
The only place where compensation comes before service is in the dictionary or anywhere the government meddles.
