Freedom Quotes

With my government, we engaged in bringing our help to fights for national freedom. At that precise moment, several countries were still colonised or had barely overcome colonisation. This was the case in practically all of Africa. We supported them.

I enjoy being given a certain amount of freedom in order to interpret or to come up with stuff, but I do enjoy collaboration. I seek and thrive on projects where I am going to learn from the people I'm working with.

If they want to hang me, let them. And on the scaffold I will shout Freedom for the working class!

Our constitutional liberties shall not be sacrificed in our search for greater security, for that is what our enemies and all enemies of freedom and democracy hope to achieve.

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.

Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.

You know, painting has given me a lot of freedom, because for some reason, I've been able to paint things, organize things in a way that I see that don't have any buffers or compromises in them.

One should never put on one's best trousers to go out to battle for freedom and truth.

I've never let producers tell me what to do. Even when I was making television, I always did what I wanted to do, and if I couldn't, I didn't do it. It was a freedom that, these days, young directors starting out don't have.

But on the other side I am very glad that I can at least enjoy some freedom.

I am in favor of complete freedom of information and of free access to the new communication tools, in particular the Internet.

Freedom is secured every day by our men and women in uniform. We must build a future worthy of their sacrifice.

I started skydiving because I loved the idea of freedom.

The secret of freedom lies in educating people, whereas the secret of tyranny is in keeping them ignorant.

Freedom of speech, freedom of the press, and freedom of religion all have a double aspect - freedom of thought and freedom of action.

With my government, we engaged in bringing our help to fights for national freedom. At that precise moment, several countries were still colonised or had barely overcome colonisation. This was the case in practically all of Africa. We supported them.

Everywhere that freedom stirs, let tyrants fear.

In my youth I stressed freedom, and in my old age I stress order. I have made the great discovery that liberty is a product of order.

Hero-worship is strongest where there is least regard for human freedom.

We believe that salvation is to be found in wholesome work in a beloved land. Work will provide our people with the bread of tomorrow, and moreover, with the honor of the tomorrow, the freedom of the tomorrow.

I chose America as my home because I value freedom and democracy, civil liberties and an open society.

Freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought.

It is not the simple statement of facts that ushers in freedom; it is the constant repetition of them that has this liberating effect. Tolerance is the result not of enlightenment, but of boredom.

What is ominous is the ease with which some people go from saying that they don't like something to saying that the government should forbid it. When you go down that road, don't expect freedom to survive very long.

I do have the freedom to choose what I want to do and I'll continue to do that.

Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same.

Fiction is such a world of freedom, it's wonderful. If you want someone to fly, they can fly.

As the Constitution endures, persons in every generation can invoke its principles in their own search for greater freedom.

The Election Assistance Commission represents a major, unprecedented commitment from the federal government to sustained freedom and vibrant democracy. I am humbled by the prospect of being one its charter members.

We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home.