Freedom Quotes

The idea that men are created free and equal is both true and misleading: men are created different; they lose their social freedom and their individual autonomy in seeking to become like each other.

Whatever your image is, it's probably not you, but it affords you the freedom to live up to it.

Freedom is not something that one people can bestow on another as a gift. Thy claim it as their own and none can keep it from them.

Human beings the world over need freedom and security that they may be able to realize their full potential.

As long as a government can come and shoot you, you can't jump on the Internet to freedom.

Love and freedom are vital to the creation and upbringing of a child.

It does not take a majority to prevail... but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men.

Freedom lies in being bold.

Hamas is a terrorist organization dedicated to annihilating the Jewish state. It runs a theocratic totalitarian state in Gaza, with no individual liberty, and no freedom of speech or press.

Violent means will give violent freedom. That would be a menace to the world and to India herself.

America has never seen itself as a national state like all others, but rather as an experiment in human freedom and democracy.

The only freedom which deserves the name is that of pursuing our own good, in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs, or impede their efforts to obtain it.

There must be freedom for all to live, to think, to worship, no book, no avenue must be closed.

A filmmaker has almost the same freedom as a novelist has when he buys himself some paper.

Our Founders warned against this. They said don't... that your liberty is only as secure as the people are. Because once they, um, get the ability to vote themselves entitlements from the largesse of the government, liberty is done; freedom is over with. We were warned. We are there.

When we are unwilling to draw clear moral lines between free societies and fear societies, when we are unwilling to call the former good and the latter evil, we will not be able to advance the cause of peace because peace cannot be disconnected from freedom.

We gain freedom when we have paid the full price.

I never felt comfortable in real life very well. It's always been an awkward kind of thing for me and so when I hit the stage I just sensed freedom. I sensed here's a place that I can have all the experiences of life and not feel uncomfortable about it.

Art is the daughter of freedom.

Justice is never given; it is exacted and the struggle must be continuous for freedom is never a final fact, but a continuing evolving process to higher and higher levels of human, social, economic, political and religious relationship.

As we continue to fight the war on terror, we express our gratitude to our troops whose valor over the last three years provided freedom to the Iraqis, while protecting our liberty here at home.

If society fits you comfortably enough, you call it freedom.

When I was in jail, I was a lot of people's favorite person. I practically ran the jail. I had more freedom than the police.

I came out of the Soviet Union no longer a communist, because I believed in personal freedom.

The goal of the EU is to form a region of freedom, security and justice. Freedom in this connection cannot be just the freedom of the strong, but it must be combined with fraternity and equality.

America, to me, is freedom.

I keep telling myself to calm down, to take less of an interest in things and not to get so excited, but I still care a lot about liberty, freedom of speech and expression, and fairness in journalism.

Freedom without limits is just a word.

One of the things that bothers me most is the growing belief in the country that security is more important than freedom. It ain't.

It is the people who scream the loudest about America and Freedom who see to be the most intolerant for a differing point of view.