Freedom Quotes

The vision of a nation formed from many different peoples bound together by a common love of freedom was staked out long before our lifetimes or even our parents' or grandparents' lifetimes.

The revelation of thought takes men out of servitude into freedom.

Being big and famous doesn't get you more freedom, it gets you less.

I was determined to achieve the total freedom that our history lessons taught us we were entitled to, no matter what the sacrifice.

Human beings want to be free and however long they may agree to stay locked up, to stay oppressed, there will come a time when they say 'That's it.' Suddenly they find themselves doing something that they never would have thought they would be doing, simply because of the human instinct that makes them turn their face towards freedom.

I have said democracy and freedom do not work too well if you are hungry, if you are starving.

Wherever on this planet ideals of personal freedom and dignity apply, there you will find the cultural inheritance of England.

Since Castro took power, the Cuban people have been denied basic human freedoms. No freedom of religion, no freedom of the press, no political freedom. And the regime uses brutality and violence to suppress these freedoms and impose its will.

Somebody was asking me the other day - President Bush is now talking about freedom for the Arab world. I say, well, that's great. I was talking about that fifty years ago.

If it's total freedom, I guess the ultimate thing you can go into is total silence between the audience and performer, with the performer projecting something he doesn't even have to play.

Books were my pass to personal freedom. I learned to read at age three, and soon discovered there was a whole world to conquer that went beyond our farm in Mississippi.

The man or country that fights priestcraft and priests is to my mind striking deeper for freedom than can be struck anywhere.

We must remember that the people for whom this change represents a first taste of freedom and a new and brighter future did not allow their resolution to falter, no matter how great the suffering by which they bought this independence.

I've come to realize that protecting freedom of choice in our everyday lives is essential to maintaining a healthy civil society.

The quest for freedom, dignity, and the rights of man will never end.

Usually, it is not my habit to address religious issues on the floor. I strongly believe in a person's right to religious freedom, as well as the separation of church and state.

I say there is not more happiness for me than the freedom of my Homeland.

I am not an anti to anything which will bring freedom to my class.

Children should have enough freedom to be themselves - once they've learned the rules.

Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose.

One of the best kept secrets in America is that people are aching to make a commitment, if they only had the freedom and environment in which to do so.

Victorious living does not mean freedom from temptation, nor does it mean freedom from mistakes.

In the beginning, we had a great deal of freedom, and Jerry wrote completely out of his imagination - very, very freely. We even had no editorial supervision to speak of, because they were in such a rush to get the thing in before deadline. But later on we were restricted.

The nice thing about the world that I've been able to inhabit for the last couple of years is that I'm given a lot of freedom. Not all artists really get that.

Remember the refrain: We always build on the past; the past always tries to stop us. Freedom is about stopping the past, but we have lost that ideal.

Yes, we have the freedom to do what we please, but it only works because we don't do everything we might please - we should exercise some degree of personal, and corporate, responsibility.

Let me reassure that the Kingdom of Cambodia a country with independence, neutrality, peace, freedom, democracy and human rights as you all have seen, shall be existing with no end.

I've returned to being an amateur without any ties or strings attached, which gives me a freedom I never had before.

The claim that the World Trade Center and the Pentagon were attacked because fundamentalists hate our prosperity and freedom is a ridiculous lie.

And Marx spoke of the fact that socialism will be the kingdom of freedom, where man realizes himself in a way that humankind has never seen before. This was an inspiring body of literature to read.