Freedom Quotes

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.

That happens every time I get behind a guitar, regardless of what I'm saying, 'cause music is freedom and being free is the closest I've ever felt to being spiritual.

Well, if crime fighters fight crime and fire fighters fight fire, what do freedom fighters fight? They never mention that part to us, do they?

None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free.

What is the essence of America? Finding and maintaining that perfect, delicate balance between freedom "to" and freedom "from."

I believe in trying to get a balance between individual freedom on the one hand and social responsibility on the other.

I think that we could be more careful about what we're saying to young women in terms of their expectations. It's unrealistic to expect people to always be in designer clothes. Girls growing up deserve more freedom in how they look and how they feel about how they look.

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

The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission.

Human freedom involves our capacity to pause, to choose the one response toward which we wish to throw our weight.

Ironically, it is exactly because we are a city that embraces freedom, that welcomes everyone and encourages their dreams, that New York remains on the front lines in the war on terror.

I envision a future where there'll be 300 million reporters, where anyone from anywhere can report for any reason. It's freedom of participation absolutely realized.

Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.

The family is the test of freedom; because the family is the only thing that the free man makes for himself and by himself.

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

I regard the principle of conscription of life as a flat contradiction of all our cherished ideals of individual freedom, democratic liberty and Christian teaching.

What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.

The best road to progress is freedom's road.

Freedom is a universal value.