Freedom Quotes

We can't have a freedom struggle without free choice.

The basis of conservatism is a desire for less government interference or less centralized authority or more individual freedom...

I love the freedom that the narrative form provides.

Freedom from indoctrination ought to be a basic human right for all children.

The classroom - not the trench - is the frontier of freedom now and forevermore.

The sage seeks freedom from desire. He does not collect precious things. He learns not to hold on to ideas. He brings men back to what they have lost.

If you care about injustice, and if you care about freedom, and you care about human rights, then you care about them everywhere.

We are usually convinced more easily by reasons we have found ourselves than by those which have occurred to others.

Freedom requires no effort to enjoy but requires heroic efforts to preserve.

We have a very foolish notion in Western countries that progress delivers freedom. But progress doesn't necessarily bring moral virtue.

In the long vista of the years to roll,\\ Let me not see my country's honor fade;\\ Oh! let me see our land retain its soul!\\ Her pride in Freedom, and not Freedom's shade.

Resolve and thou art free.

Everyone should be encouraged...in spiration and artistic freedom is the cornerstone of rock and roll.

We will not fail your expectations of us as a new nation dedicated to peace, democracy, and freedom.

The power to gossip is more democratically distributed than power, property, and income, and, certainly, than the freedom to speak openly.

O how sweet it is to enjoy life, Living in honesty and strength! And wisdom is sweet, And freedom.

He who fox-like got his rank, Is wolf-like in his office.

Football is a whole skill to itself. A whole world. A whole universe to itself. Me love it because you have to be skilful to play it! Freedom! Football is freedom.

It [freedom] is a thing of the spirit. Men must be free to worship, to think, to hold opinions, to speak without fear. They must be free to challenge wrong and oppression with the surety of justice.

It is capitalist America that produced the modern independent woman. Never in history have women had more freedom of choice in regard to dress, behavior, career, and sexual orientation.

The answer to subversion of democracy is more democracy, more freedom, more justice.

The men and women who serve in our military have won for us every hour we live in freedom, sometimes at the expense of the very hours of the lifetimes they had hoped to live.

I believe that the high rates of property crime (and some of the increase in violent crime) are part of the price you pay for freedom.

There's no subtext in Harry Potter really; it's all magic, anything can happen. Why do I say this? Because it's a magic spell. It's quite nice in a way. There is a real freedom to it.

Freedom is not an ideal, it is not even a protection, if it means nothing more than freedom to stagnate, to live without dreams, to have no greater aim than a second car and another television set.

Lend your voices only to sounds of freedom, no longer lend your strength to that which you wish to be free from. Fill your life with love and bravery, and you shall live a life uncommon.

We live in a land like no other - a land of freedom and opportunity unparalleled on the face of the globe.

Tomorrow will be better for as long as America keeps alive the ideals of freedom and a better life.

Gnawing with my teeth my bonds in sunder, I gain'd my freedom.

I've discovered that the more freedom I have to be creative, the more creative I become.

General rebellions and revolts of a whole people never were encouraged now or at any time. They are always provoked.

Oh, Liberty! thou goddess heavenly bright! Profuse of bliss, and pregnant with delight! Eternal pleasures in thy presence reign, And smiling plenty leads thy wanton train.

The intense happiness of our union is derived in a high degree from the perfect freedom with which we each follow and declare our own impressions.

You believe in freedom of speech for communists because what they say is true. You do not believe in freedom of speech for fascists because what they say is a lie.

To prove that the Americans ought not to be free, we are obliged to deprecate the value of freedom itself.

Both the American people and nations that censor the internet should understand that our government is committed to helping promote internet freedom.

True freedom doesn't lie in the maximization of choice, but, ironically, is most easily found in a life where there is little choice.

I lost in the second round of the French Open and had 10 days off. I went to the Hard Rock Cafe. It was exciting to be away from my parents, to stay in a hotel. Hotels at 17 meant freedom.

We clearly realize that freedom's inner kingdom cannot be touched by exterior attacks.

Liberty is the great parent of science and of virtue; and a nation will be great in both in proportion as it is free.

Freedom's soil hath only place For a free and fearless race!

The spirit of liberty is the spirit that is not quite sure it is right.

They have called Operation Iraqi Freedom a war of choice that isn't part of the real war on terror. Someone should tell that to al Qaeda.

To be alone is to be free, and freedom was the only happiness accessible to my nature.

We must be free or die, who speak the tongue That Shakespeare spake; the faith and morals hold Which Milton held.

The nice thing about the world that I've been able to inhabit for the last couple of years is that I'm given a lot of freedom. Not all artists really get that.

Everyone longs to be free. Freedom is our essential nature, so my ultimate prayer is that the world is set free to experience the truth and the beauty of our own being.

We have been born under a monarchy; to obey God is freedom.

With freedom comes responsibility, and I can think of no responsibility greater than putting on a U.S military uniform and standing in the gap between an enemy threat and civilian life.

The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one