Freedom Quotes

Freedom is control in your own life.

I think a lot of nice things happen when you're driving, or when you're on a plane, or whatever. There's a certain freedom that comes along with motion.

Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. And so we must straighten our backs and work for our freedom. A man can't ride you unless your back is bent.

As a boy, I believed freedom for America meant freedom for me. There was a time I believed every word spoken.

The precondition to freedom is security.

My grandfather was a man, when he talked about freedom, his attitude was really interesting. His view was that you had obligations or you had responsibilities, and when you fulfilled those obligations or responsibilities, that then gave you the liberty to do other things.

We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought.

I have achieved an inner freedom.

For the freedoms our founding fathers not only dreamed about, but made into reality. It is that same pursuit of freedom today that is helping to make our world a safer place.

The freedom now desired by many is not freedom to do and dare but freedom from care and worry.

All real freedom springs from necessity, for it can be gained only through the exercise of the individual will, and that will can be roused to energetic action only by the force of necessity acting upon it from the outside to spur it to effort.

In the democratic western countries so-called capitalism leads a saturnalia of "freedom," like a bastard brother of reform.

Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.

Freedom was conditioned by man's physical body, heredity, and environment.

The real movement of history, it turns out, is fueled not by matter but by spirit, by the will to freedom.

That's an amazing feeling, to walk onstage, and you're not thinking about anything, you're not thinking about your lines or what you're supposed to do - your body, your brain knows, so there's freedom. There's not fear, there's not nerves.

The films that I've done before were original stories most of the time, I did two adaptations before this, but they were mostly original stories where I had complete freedom to evolve in the direction I wanted.

I spent a great deal of time with Che Guevara while I was in Havana. I believe he was far less a mercenary than he was a freedom fighter.

The transfer is a monumental occasion as the Iraqi people take control of their government and their future and forge ahead with creating a society governed by the tenets of life, liberty and freedom.

I don't believe in firing professors. They have academic freedom.

We all have the right of freedom of speech under the First Amendment. We all don't have to agree with one another on our opinions. Everyone in my circle, that I run around with, we all feel the same about God, country, integrity and character.

I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and democracy - but that could change.

Money to me is just the biggest blessing in the world that allows me freedom.

It all felt like a terribly long time. It would have meant that I had to make five movies in five years and if you don't like the movies, too bad. I guess I just wanted my freedom, and I think my life has been incredibly enhanced as a result.

Back then I didn't think a woman like that, or a relationship like that, could exist with complete freedom and no jealousy or possessiveness. I thought it sounded too good to be true and I was certainly convinced it wasn't the life for me!

For us, holding on to religious rules, and following them, and refraining from what's forbidden, and being diligent with our duties, what do we call that? That's what we call freedom.

We must guard against the overreaching hand of big government trying to take away our freedom. And we must always protect the environment in a manner consistent with our values.

Perfect freedom is as necessary to the health and vigor of commerce as it is to the health and vigor of citizenship.

The freedom to convert is fundamental to freedom of religion.

Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.