Freedom Quotes

The tradition of freedom of the high seas has its roots in an era when there were too few people to seriously violate the oceans - but in hindsight that era ended some 150 years ago.

I just hope that I get a chance to keep making pictures in the atmosphere of freedom to make mistakes, and to find those magical things. Then I don't care what else happens.

While some misuse their freedom to perpetrate evil, millions respond by feeling compelled to use their freedom to do good.

The Libertarian position on the freedom of speech is a strong support of freedom of speech, and we oppose government intervention in controlling what is or is not moral.

Marriage partners, not government, should define the terms and spiritual orientation of their union in accordance with our nation's guarantee of religious freedom.

Everything drops away, comes to be unimportant in the dark. It's like sleep almost. A freedom from self, from ugliness.

So let freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire.

The shallow, as intimated, consider liberty a release from all law, from every constraint. The wise see in it, on the contrary, the potent Law of Laws.

Without forgiveness, there can be no real freedom to act within a group.

The disconnection of Church and State was a master stroke for freedom and harmony.

The dignity of man is in free choice.

I do most of my business on that dirty Internet that you were just talking about, where I find there is a lot of freedom to report exactly what I want.

What do you suppose will satisfy the soul, except to walk free and own no superior?

Writing is a solitary occupation, and one of its hazards is loneliness. But an advantage of loneliness is privacy, autonomy and freedom.

For nothing is more unbearable, once one has it, than freedom.

The principal fact of life is the free mind.

Yes there's a lady that stands in a harbor for what we believe. And there's a bell that still echoes the price that it cost to be free.

When you change the way you look at a thing, the thing itself changes...By mastering feelings, she had come to understand the meaning of discipline and its reward: freedom and power.

When we succumb to believing that we are victims of our circumstances and yield to the plight of determinism, we lose hope, we lose drive, and we settle into resignation and stagnation.

We are bound together by the most powerful of all ties, our fervent love for freedom and independence, which knows no homeland but the human heart.

I don't have to tell you how fragile this precious gift of freedom is. Every time we hear, watch, or read the news, we are reminded that liberty is a rare commodity in this world.

The first amendment protects free speech, but if you don't have freedom of thought, do you really have freedom of speech?

Freedom of religion has been replaced by freedom from religion.

Loaves of bread remind us of sunlight, but when we are inside that orb,we lose interest in building ovens,in millwork and the preparation of fields before the planting.

In the long, fierce struggle for freedom of opinion, the press, like the Church, counted its martyrs by thousands.

There is a crying need today to have this truth heralded throughout the land that youth especially may appreciate and hold the freedom of the individual as sacred as did our revolutionary fathers.

We’ve always been involved with issues that deal with the fundamental human rights of people, whether that means the right to political freedom or the right to breathe air that’s clean.

Just laws are no restraint upon the freedom of the good, for the good man desires nothing which a just law will interfere with.

Despite much talk in this land about religious freedom, churches and their schools now confront grave difficulties.

The freedom to kill is not a true freedom, but a tyranny that reduces human beings to slavery.

Look, freedom is an overwhelming American notion. The idea that we want to see the world, the peoples of the world free is something that all of us subscribe to.

The less of one's life one must exchange for money, the more freedom one may enjoy.

I certainly do have this feeling of affection for the absolute sense of intellectual freedom that exists as a live nerve, a live wire, right through the center of American life.

More and more Chinese intend to embrace freedom of speech and human rights as their birthright, not some imported American privilege.

New York Times v. Sullivan was about the suppression of speech in the South [during the 1960s]. Today's version of suppression is just another verse of the same song.

If we cannot give freedom to every creature, let us do nothing that will impose slavery upon any other creature.

The fire was followed by a period of grieving and then by an incredible lightness, freedom, and mobility.

We are trying to persuade all the Iraqi opposition to come breathe freedom in Iraq and use liberated Kurdistan as a base for our common struggle.

It is necessary to ensure that the requirement to combat terrorism is not used to clamp down on freedom of expression, legitimate dissent, freedom of association and so on.

[On Chinese Internet,] freedom is a targeted and precise window.

When God takes your straw, it isn’t because he wants you to remain a slave. It’s because he wants you to take another step toward freedom.

Hell is God's great compliment to the reality of human freedom and the dignity of human choice.

We'll have freedom, love and health/When the grand red flag is flying, In the Workers' Commonwealth.

To feed men and not to love them is to treat them as if they were barnyard cattle. To love them and not respect them is to treat them as if they were household pets.

We were proclaiming ourselves political hypocrites before the world, by thus fostering Human Slavery and proclaiming ourselves, at the same time, the sole friends of Human Freedom.

Enron and 9/11 marked the end of an era of individual freedom and the beginning of personal responsibility.

We have the most religious freedom of any country in the world, including the freedom not to believe.

In short, individual freedom of speech leads to a stronger society. But knowing that principle is not enough. You have to know how to put it to use on the Net.

Unless a man has the talents to make something of himself, freedom is an irksome burden.

Impeccability of the word can lead you to personal freedom, to huge success and abundance; it can take away all fear and transform it into joy and love.