Freedom Quotes

I grew up in a socialist country. And I have seen what that does to people. There is no hope, no freedom. No pride in achievement.

It was so much fun to have the freedom to wander America, with no assignments. For 25 or 30 years I never had an assignment. These were all stories I wanted to do myself.

Freedom from militarism will give the German people the opportunity, if they will but seize it, to apply their great energies and abilities to the works of peace.

Freedom is a muscle... you have to exercise it.

I shall stand for freedom of thought and expression in a place where it has been trampled and penalized.

We believe it wrong ever to take a dollar from a free citizen without a very necessary public purpose, because each such taking diminishes the freedom to spend that dollar as its owner would prefer.

I would hope to inspire in my listeners a feeling of freedom - of speech, thought and political activity.

We've seen a massive attack on the freedom of the web. Governments are realizing the power of this medium to organize people and they are trying to clamp down across the world, not just in places like China and North Korea; we're seeing bills in the United States, in Italy, all across the world.

Many politicians are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim.

You can't put democracy and freedom back into a box.

What do you think, that a dollar in a savings account is freedom? Maybe you have understood nothing I have said.

I do not want art for a few any more than education for a few, or freedom for a few.

I made my own assessment of my life, and I began to live it. That was freedom.

The only freedom supposed to be left to the masses is that of grazing on the ration of simulacra the system distributes to each individual.

A renewed commitment to the freedom and opportunity of our people is the touchstone of our time. In this new century, where tests are many and challenges change with the shifting of the wind, we must hold fast to the principles that have made our nation the envy of the world.

I want freedom and I realize that the only way to get it is to quit breaking the law.

Native Americans are the original inhabitants of the land that now constitutes the United States. They have helped develop the fundamental principles of freedom of speech and separation of powers that form the foundation of the United States Government.

Americans are so enamored of equality that they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom.

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

Freedom is a system based on courage.

We thought the church had withdrawn from interfering in Italian politics... but instead there is a terrible resurgence. These are ugly signs for freedom of expression.

Responsibility and respect of others and their religious beliefs are also part of freedom.

Government has the role of suiting people for freedom. People aren't made for freedom spontaneously. There's sort of a 19-year race between when people are born and when they become adults. And government has a role in making them, at the end of 19 years, suited to be upright, trustworthy repositories of popular sovereignty.

So why am I facing a recall election? Simple: the big government union bosses from Washington want their money. They don't like the fact that I did something fundamentally pro-worker; something that's truly about freedom.

You cannot expect so much freedom in a land of 1.3 billion people.

Freedom has cost too much blood and agony to be relinquished at the cheap price of rhetoric.

Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err.

The course of this conflict is not known, yet its outcome is certain. Freedom and fear, justice and cruelty, have always been at war, and we know that God is not neutral between them.

One of my great joys in life is being a pilot. There is a great sense of freedom in soaring through the sky. You get a different perspective up there. Seeing things that aren't so apparent from the ground.

A major source of objection to a free economy is precisely that group thinks they ought to want. Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.