Freedom Quotes

I know of no country in which there is so little independence of mind and real freedom of discussion as in America.

Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.

Freedom requires no effort to enjoy but requires heroic efforts to preserve.

To increase aid to the Pakistan government when religious freedom is not upheld is tantamount to an anti-Christian foreign policy.

Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.

I believe in that connection between freedom and the city.

There's a glorious sense of freedom in comedy, just allowing myself to tell jokes, allowing myself to interrupt myself and tell old African folk stories that I made up - or didn't - and Jamaican stories.

True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.

Rock and roll music - the music of freedom frightens people and unleashes all manner of conservative defense mechanisms.

Freedom is a possession of inestimable value.

When the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the Affordable Care Act, Sarah Palin tweeted, 'Obama lies; freedom dies.' She's referring, I guess, to the freedom to go without health care when you're sick.

Freedom means the freedom to behave coarsely, basely, foolishly.

Laying tracks gives you freedom without being too obvious.

Who is more to be pitied, a writer bound and gagged by policemen or one living in perfect freedom who has nothing more to say?

The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom.

In many ways, my attachment to human freedom was completely compatible with my right to live freely as a homosexual.

You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.

Freedom granted only when it is known beforehand that its effects will be beneficial is not freedom.

True independence and freedom can only exist in doing what's right.

The old Romans all wished to have a king over them because they had not yet tasted the sweetness of freedom.

Everywhere that the struggle for national freedom has triumphed, once the authorities agreed, there were military coups d'etat that overthrew their leaders. That is the result time and time again.

I suffered evils, but without allowing them to rob me of the freedom to expand.

To see for themselves what the United States has been willing to undertake in the name of freedom. We should all visit Normandy. We should pay homage to those brave Americans who stormed ashore at Omaha Beach and gave their lives for the freedom of others.

Money won't create success, the freedom to make it will.

We cannot cut and run. If we are to ensure freedom and democracy, it is essential that we follow through on our obligation to bring about stability in Iraq.

The love of freedom has been the quality of Western man.

Democracy may have arisen in the West as the way of striving for the universal aspiration to dignity and freedom, but it isn't alien to the underlying concepts that infuse religion and moral philosophy everywhere.

Freedom in general may be defined as the absence of obstacles to the realization of desires.

I know that throughout their history, the people of the United States defended their freedom, their liberty, their justice, and their rights - if need be - with their lives. I think their courage is so admirable.

The perfection of our union, especially our commitment to equality of opportunity, has been a story of constant striving to live up to our Founding principles. This is what Abraham Lincoln meant when he said, 'In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free - honorable alike in what we give, and what we preserve.'