Freedom Quotes

To be listened to is... a nearly unique experience for most people. It is enormously stimulating... Man clamors for the freedom to express himself and for knowing that he counts.

Because it is a radical act of freedom, creative achievement is a heroic process that requires, in all its permutations, specific strengths of character.

It is hard to find something where you can go off as much as I do in stand-up, but I think stand-up allows me that freedom where you can really go off and have a good time.

This personal freedom to think and feel and speak authentically and to be conscious of so doing is the quality that distinguishes us as human.

For the people of Israel and America are historic partners in the global quest for human dignity and freedom. We will always remain at each other's side.

There can be no greater good than the quest for peace, and no finer purpose than the preservation of freedom.

It is the people who scream the loudest about America and Freedom who see to be the most intolerant for a differing point of view.

What stands if Freedom fail? What dies of England live?

You know, you don't retreat in the defense of freedom. You don't retreat in the defense of moral government and limited government. You don't retreat because people are going to defend bad things.

There has always been a part of me that saw wilderness and risk-taking as the path to freedom.

Freedom is something that we got to achieve inside ourselves. Nobody can achieve it outside oneself.

Discourse says, 'You are.' Rhetoric preserves the freedom to say, 'I am not.

We are all free spirits. We must choose to practice freedom.

Freedom is not an individual effort. Yours comes only when you grant others theirs

Even in the midst of devastation, something within us always points the way to freedom.

To whom should we marry Freedom, to make it multiply?

Let freedom ka-ching...Corporations do everything people do except breathe, die and go to jail for dumping 1.3 million pounds of PCBs in the Hudson River.

Interdependency follows independence.

Eternal vigilance, as they say, is the price of freedom. Add intellectual integrity to the cost basis.

We do not credit to the ideal of religious freedom when we talk as though religious belief is something of which public-spirited adults should be ashamed.

With America's role in the world, we have the ability to help protect the freedom of religion around the globe.

One may gain political and social independence, but if one is a slave to his passions and desires, one cannot feel the pure joy of real freedom

Not one atom can rest until it finds its freedom.

We must always bear in mind that we are not going to be free, but are free already. Every idea that we are bound is a delusion.

Man's free agency is not of the mind, for that is bound. There is no freedom there.

Oh, to live even for a day in the full light of freedom, to breathe the free air of simplicity! Isn't that the highest purity?

The mind enters itself, and God the mind, And one is One, free in the tearing wind.

Freedom is not a gift which can be enjoyed save by those shown themselves worthy of it.

The cost of freedom is eternal vigilance

Freedom [is] the first-born daughter of science

To be ordinary is not a choice: It is the usual freedom of men without visions.

Voters never have to question where I stand - my principles or priorities. I am a pro-freedom, pro-America and pro-life conservative.

Truth is more important, freedom is more complex, and Jesus is more liberating than you think.

I don't think you can call yourself a freedom-loving American and be a Democrat.

And although I'm all for freedom of expression and against censorship, there are certain things I'm not willing to go to jail for.

We've got to maintain freedom of navigation of the seas and in the air.

What do you plan to do with all your freedom?

The wise man does not discriminate; he gathers all the shreds of light, from wherever they may come.

Before I can embrace freedom, I should be aware of what duties I have.

Any society that values wealth above freedom will lose its freedom, and will ultimately lose its wealth as well

You see, money to you means freedom; to me it means bondage.

I thank God and America for the right to live and raise my family under the flag of tolerance, democracy and freedom.

From this hour, freedom! Going where I like, my own master.

Freedom to speak... can be maintained only by promoting debate.

Monsanto doesn't care about feeding the world. We have to think about the wage slavery of migrant workers and salary slavery of those who are desperately unhappy.

He who dares not (reason), is a slave.

Progress, the growth of power, is the end and boon of liberty; and, without this, a people may have the name, but want the substance and spirit of freedom.

History will remember Nelson Mandela as a champion for human dignity and freedom, for peace and reconciliation.

No people can be truly happy... if abridged of the freedom of their consciences

Faced by the actual practice of freedom, the French and American revolutions would be forced to stand by their words.