Freedom Quotes

Our forefathers got it; they got it, man. They took godly principles and they put them into action, and they developed our Constitution - the land of freedom where each man is accountable and responsible for his actions.

There is no doubt that Iraqis, like Australians and Americans, love and desire freedom. However, if freedom doesn't mean the right to complete self-determination, unfettered by interests other than one's own, then that freedom is less than worthless - it's oppression.

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.

Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.

The Vietnamese people deeply love independence, freedom and peace. But in the face of United States aggression they have risen up, united as one man.

You make a movie for 9k for the freedom it allows you.

I can say now: all the combatants who participated in the fight for freedom in South America came to Algeria; it's from there that all those who fought left. We trained them, we arranged for the weapons to reach them, we created networks.

What we have at present is a system of loss socialism. Whatever goes wrong is shouldered by the general public and anything that works is privatised. Worshippers of market freedom have suspended the most important economic principle: Risk and liability go hand in hand.

It should be clear by now that my focus here is not freedom of speech or the press. This freedom is all too often an exaggeration. At the very least, blind references to freedom of speech or the press serve as a distraction from the critical examination of other communications policies.

We who officially value freedom of speech above life itself seem to have nothing to talk about but the weather.

Freedom means the opportunity to be what we never thought we would be.

Pursuing your passion is fulfilling and leads to financial freedom.

Freedom from the desire for an answer is essential to the understanding of a problem.

I stand for freedom of expression, doing what you believe in, and going after your dreams.

A nation which makes the final sacrifice for life and freedom does not get beaten.

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.

We must also win really sufficient and, above all, practical, guarantees for the freedom of the seas and for the further fulfilment of our economic and political tasks throughout the world.

Central authority is bad. The bias should be for freedom. And without a central authority, there are lots of little authorities, and we learn which ones to trust.

Freedom of navigation through international waterways is critical to the international community and to nations in the region, including Iran.

Bush is morally a universalist. For instance, he says the freedom is good, the same thing is good, all over the world. So in that sense he's a universalist.

All theory is against freedom of the will; all experience for it.

The fifth freedom is freedom from ignorance.

Thus the public use of reason and freedom is nothing but a dessert, a sumptuous dessert.

Religious freedom opens a door for Americans that is closed to too many others around the world. But whether we walk through that door, and what we do with our lives after we do, is up to us.

With Napster and the sharing of music, of course, there are going to be people who exploit it. Greed has no end. But there's a lot of good that could happen. We shouldn't let the economic concerns of the major labels infringe on our freedom to share music.

People should have freedom in their pilgrimages and tours. They should come and visit historical monuments and sites - let's say the sites around Iran - where they can easily engage in wide- scale contacts with others.

How absurd men are! They never use the liberties they have, they demand those they do not have. They have freedom of thought, they demand freedom of speech.

Now, one of the most essential branches of English liberty is the freedom of one's house.

Only the freedom of mind can prevent the state from becoming totalitarian and from issuing totalitarian demands.

Freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed choices.