Freedom Quotes

Religious liberty is the first freedom in our Constitution. And whether the cause is justice for the persecuted, compassion for the needy and the sick, or mercy for the child waiting to be born, there is no greater force for good in the nation than Christian conscience in action.

The framers of our Constitution meant we were to have freedom of religion, not freedom from religion.

Freedom of the press is not an end in itself but a means to the end of achieving a free society.

Ultimately we know deeply that the other side of every fear is freedom.

Widespread state control over art and culture has left no room for freedom of expression in the country. For more than 60 years, anyone with a dissenting opinion has been suppressed. Chinese art is merely a product: it avoids any meaningful engagement. There is no larger context. Its only purpose is to charm viewers with its ambiguity.

I think I'm mostly looking forward to the college life. I'm looking forward to more freedom. Here everything is really structured and scheduled, but in college you've got to be more responsible and you can get things done on your own time. I'm really looking forward to that.

It is easy to believe in freedom of speech for those with whom we agree.

Our society is illuminated by the spiritual insights of the Hebrew prophets. America and Israel have a common love of human freedom, and they have a common faith in a democratic way of life.

Our economic freedom is founded on individual property rights; government should never be permitted to take those away.

From you we have learned what we, at least, value, to separate Church and State; and from you we gather inspiration at all times in our devotion to learning, to religious liberty, and to individual and National freedom.

If happiness truly consisted in physical ease and freedom from care, then the happiest individual would not be either a man or a woman; it would be, I think, an American cow.

There are more people living in freedom today than at any other time in the history of the human race.

With freedom comes responsibility, and I can think of no responsibility greater than putting on a U.S military uniform and standing in the gap between an enemy threat and civilian life.

Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom.

The freedom of all is essential to my freedom.

The problem for Rome, then, is how and when the intervention should be done with a sense of the possibility of going too far in limiting the freedom of theologians. This is not an easy time - neither for Rome nor for the theologians.

I never had any childhood, for the word means sunshine and freedom from care. I had a starved and pinched little childhood, as far as love and merriment go.

We must plan for freedom, and not only for security, if for no other reason than that only freedom can make security secure.

The elections in Iraq are a victory for freedom and the Iraqi people, and a blow to the transnational network of terrorists who have tried to prevent this day from happening.

Grace is the beauty of form under the influence of freedom.

The freedom to be an individual is the essence of America.

In the beginning, I loved being famous, but now I am tired of it and I would like to go back to my freedom.

But in Christianity, by contrast, the freedom of the children of God was also freedom from all important worldly interests, from all art and science, etc.

The poet's spoken discourse often depends on a mystique, on the spiritual freedom that finds itself enslaved on earth.

When I was teaching in the 1960s in Boston, there was a great deal of hope in the air. Martin Luther King Jr. was alive, Malcolm X was alive; great, great leaders were emerging from the southern freedom movement.

Freedom is a man's natural power of doing what he pleases, so far as he is not prevented by force or law.

To me, the American Dream is being able to follow your own personal calling. To be able to do what you want to do is incredible freedom.

It is true you cannot eat freedom and you cannot power machinery with democracy. But then neither can political prisoners turn on the light in the cells of a dictatorship.

There are days when solitude is a heady wine that intoxicates you with freedom, others when it is a bitter tonic, and still others when it is a poison that makes you beat your head against the wall.

The freedom to make a fortune on the stock exchange has been made to sound more alluring than freedom of speech.