Freedom Quotes

If you have total freedom, then you are in trouble. It's much better when you have some obligation, some discipline, some rules. When you have no rules, then you start to build your own rules.

The ultimate freedom we have as human beings is the power to select what we will allow or require our minds to dwell upon.

Holiness is not freedom from temptation, but power to overcome temptation.

Unnecessary laws are not good laws, but traps for money.

My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together.

My vision is a future for humanity where we will be completely free to pursue activities outside of our planet.

The first maxim of a man who loves liberty, should be never to grant to rulers an atom of power that is not most clearly and indispensably necessary for the safety and well being of society.

People willing to trade their freedom for temporary security deserve neither and will lose both.

The more we reduce ourselves to machines in the lower things, the more force we shall set free to use in the higher.

Instead of the god of security, we bow to the greater god of freedom, the freedom to take risks and master danger in order to be intensely alive.

Sometimes the lack of substantive freedoms relates directly to economic poverty

It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.

Freedom is not the absence of commitments, but the ability to choose - and commit myself to - what is best for me.

Independence, the freedom of a self-governing nation, is in my estimation the highest political good, for which any disadvantage, if need be, and any sacrifice are a cheap price.

Our ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide how anybody or anything outside ourselves will affect us.

But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin.

A simple line painted with the brush can lead to freedom and happiness.

The liberty to make our laws does not give us the freedom nor the license to break our laws!

The air has finally gotten to the place that we can breathe it together.

Bad officials are the ones elected by good citizens who do not vote.

The way towards 'wisdom' or towards 'freedom' is the way towards your inner being. This is the simplest definition of metaphysics.

I think that not being perfect has given me the freedom to keep getting better.

Freedom will cost you the mask you have on, the mask that feels so comfortable and is so hard to shed off, not because it fits so well but because you have been wearing it so long.

You have the freedom to be yourself, your true self, here and now, and nothing can stand in your way".

To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don't grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float.

The laws of democracy remain a dead letter, its freedom is anarchy, its equality the equality of unequals

In a society where the rights and potential of women are constrained, no man can be truly free. He may have power, but he will not have freedom.

The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.

I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and democracy - but that could change.

We are driven by five genetic needs: survival, love and belonging, power, freedom, and fun.

American style is about confidence, independence, diversity and free expression.

Prosperity or egalitarianism -- you have to choose. I favor freedom -- you never achieve real equality anyway: you simply sacrifice prosperity for an illusion.

This I must fight against: any idea, religion, or government which limits or destroys the individual.

Freedom itself was attacked this morning by a faceless coward, and freedom will be defended.

Young players need freedom of expression to develop as creative players... they should be encouraged to try skills without fear of failure.

Superstition is, always has been, and forever will be, the foe of progress, the enemy of education and the assassin of freedom.

I am the American heartbreak- The rock on which Freedom Stumped its toe.

It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears.

I was ecstatic they re-named 'French Fries' as 'Freedom Fries'. Grown men and women in positions of power in the U.S. government showing themselves as idiots.

Money is power, freedom, a cushion, the root of all evil, the sum of blessings.

The anchor in our world today is freedom, holding us steady in times of change, a symbol of hope to all the world.

Pakistan not only means freedom and independence but the Muslim Ideology which has to be preserved, which has come to us as a precious gift and treasure and which, we hope other will share with us.

Rock and roll music - the music of freedom frightens people and unleashes all manner of conservative defense mechanisms.

...let us continue to work together to develop and nurture in future generations a culture of human rights, to promote freedom, security and peace in all nations.

What the Idaho Health Freedom Act says is that the citizens of our state won't be subject to another federal mandate or turn over another part of their life to government control.

Let it be whatever it will be. Give up trying to manipulate. This is Freedom.

I certainly was one of the instigators in the 1960s of freedom of expression.

When you release the wrongdoer from the wrong, you cut a malignant tumor out of your inner life. You set a prisoner free, but you discover that the real prisoner was yourself.

Freedom of the Press, if it means anything at all, means the freedom to criticize and oppose

If the psychic energies of the average mass of people watching a football game or a musical comedy could be diverted into the rational channels of a freedom movement, they would be invincible.