Freedom Quotes

Humans were free before the word freedom became necessary.

We are free to yield to truth.

Government is a guarantor of liberty and is compatible with liberty only if its range is adequately restricted to the preservation of what is called economic freedom.

I think everyone on the planet is a fan of a painting because everyone is a fan of visual stimulation, but I've had freedom in the world [of painting] because I've kept it to myself.

Freedom must be gained step by step, slowly. Freedom is a food which must be carefully administered when people are too hungry for it.

The fear of God is freedom, joy, and peace; And makes all ills that vex us here to cease.

Socialism in Russia has not brought about an improvement in the conditions of the average man which can be compared with the improvement of conditions, during the same period, in the United States.

No matter how much the government controls the economic system, any problem will be blamed on whatever small zone of freedom that remains.

There is no kind of freedom and liberty other than the kind which the market economy brings about.

Remember the refrain: We always build on the past; the past always tries to stop us. Freedom is about stopping the past, but we have lost that ideal.

Freedom is about stopping the past.

I like to work in costumes, makeup, and hair that allow me tremendous freedom.

One of the booby traps of freedom - which is bordered on all sides by isolation - is that we think so well of ourselves. I now see that I have helped myself to the best cuts at life's banquet.

Western civilization is based upon the libertarian principle, and all its achievements are the results of the action of free men.

Democracy is alive, and like any other living thing it either flourishes and grows or withers and dies. There is no in-between. It is freedom and life or dictatorship and death.

The flip side of freedom is this: When you're completely free, you're also completely on your own.

Kick is seeing things from a special angle. Kick is momentary freedom from the claims of the aging, cautious, nagging, fightened flesh.

There is a time and a place for creativity.

Without peace, there is no freedom, individual or national. War and hostilities are a form of slavery.

We have to yet really seriously debate the constitutional issues and whether or not we're willing to give up more freedom in order to have more security.

Terrorism is escalating to the point that Americans soon may have to choose between civil liberties and more intrusive means of protection.

No charter of freedom will be worth looking at which does not ensure the same measure of freedom for the minorities as for the majority.

Armies under the control of ... a sovereign State cannot bring freedom to anyone.

Land where my fathers died, Land of the pilgrims' pride, From every mountainside Let freedom ring!

All special charters of freedom must be abrogated where the universal law of freedom is to flourish.

Freedom is an endless meeting.

You cannot barter security for freedom, or freedom for security.

My country, 'tis of thee, Sweet land of liberty, Of thee I sing . . . Long may our land be bright, With freedom's holy light; Protect us by Thy might, Great God, our King.

Creation is too grand, complex, and mysterious to be captured in a narrow creed. That is why we cherish individual freedom of belief.

Americans are very good at animating voices. I don't know why. They have a freedom with them that we British actors find more difficult to get to.

The embattled gates to equal rights indeed opened up for modern women, but I sometimes think to myself; that is not what I meant by freedom, it is only social progress.

Freedom for me is a strict frame, and inside that frame are all the variations possible.

A mind that is disciplined, controlled, is free within its own pattern; but that is not freedom. The end of discipline is conformity; its path leads to the known, and the known is never the free.

For you who no longer possess it, freedom is everything, for us who do, it is merely an illusion.

We hold that the Constitution does not forbid the states minor intrusions into an individual's body under stringently limited conditions.

It is very hard to stay in touch with our true identity because those who want our money, our time, and our energy profit more from our insecurity and fears than from our inner freedom.

you can muffle the drum, and you can loosen the strings of the lyre, but who shall command the skylark not to sing?

I now see Norman Thomas as indeed a liberal, but as a real, old-fashioned, unreconstructed liberal who believes in freedom and justice for everybody.

When personal freedom's being abused, you have to move to limit it.

An acknowledged love sanctifies every little freedom; and little freedoms beget great ones.

The blood and sweat shed by United States and United Nations troops proved to be the prime mover behind the realisation of freedom throughout the post-war period.

My grandfather, in 1848, had fled from Germany to find political freedom in the United States.

Absolute discretion is a ruthless master. It is more destructive of freedom than any of man's other inventions.

The fifth freedom is freedom from ignorance.

I have only to let myself go! So I have said all my life, yet I have never fully done it.

Our partnership has been built on four pillars The first pillar is peace. The second pillar is freedom. The third pillar is respect. The fourth pillar is cooperation.

The very forces that liberty has set free work against the dangerous consequences of liberty.

Man must choose whether to be rich in things or in the freedom to use them.

Every afternoon, I was in the pasture with cattle or fishing and shooting my BB gun. That kind of freedom allows imagination to develop.

Knowing yourself as the awareness behind the voice is freedom.