Freedom Quotes

It is easy to believe in freedom of speech for those with whom we agree.

Our society is illuminated by the spiritual insights of the Hebrew prophets. America and Israel have a common love of human freedom, and they have a common faith in a democratic way of life.

Our economic freedom is founded on individual property rights; government should never be permitted to take those away.

From you we have learned what we, at least, value, to separate Church and State; and from you we gather inspiration at all times in our devotion to learning, to religious liberty, and to individual and National freedom.

If happiness truly consisted in physical ease and freedom from care, then the happiest individual would not be either a man or a woman; it would be, I think, an American cow.

There are more people living in freedom today than at any other time in the history of the human race.

With freedom comes responsibility, and I can think of no responsibility greater than putting on a U.S military uniform and standing in the gap between an enemy threat and civilian life.

Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom.

The freedom of all is essential to my freedom.

The problem for Rome, then, is how and when the intervention should be done with a sense of the possibility of going too far in limiting the freedom of theologians. This is not an easy time - neither for Rome nor for the theologians.

I was interested by the idea that artists working in a totalitarian dictatorship or tsarist autocracy are secretly and slightly shamefully envied by artists who work in freedom. They have the gratification of intense interest: the authorities want to put them in jail, while there are younger readers for whom what they write is pure oxygen.

I never had any childhood, for the word means sunshine and freedom from care. I had a starved and pinched little childhood, as far as love and merriment go.

We must plan for freedom, and not only for security, if for no other reason than that only freedom can make security secure.

The elections in Iraq are a victory for freedom and the Iraqi people, and a blow to the transnational network of terrorists who have tried to prevent this day from happening.

Grace is the beauty of form under the influence of freedom.

The freedom to be an individual is the essence of America.

In the beginning, I loved being famous, but now I am tired of it and I would like to go back to my freedom.

But in Christianity, by contrast, the freedom of the children of God was also freedom from all important worldly interests, from all art and science, etc.

The poet's spoken discourse often depends on a mystique, on the spiritual freedom that finds itself enslaved on earth.

When I was teaching in the 1960s in Boston, there was a great deal of hope in the air. Martin Luther King Jr. was alive, Malcolm X was alive; great, great leaders were emerging from the southern freedom movement.

Freedom is a man's natural power of doing what he pleases, so far as he is not prevented by force or law.

To me, the American Dream is being able to follow your own personal calling. To be able to do what you want to do is incredible freedom.

It is true you cannot eat freedom and you cannot power machinery with democracy. But then neither can political prisoners turn on the light in the cells of a dictatorship.

There are days when solitude is a heady wine that intoxicates you with freedom, others when it is a bitter tonic, and still others when it is a poison that makes you beat your head against the wall.

The freedom to make a fortune on the stock exchange has been made to sound more alluring than freedom of speech.

But please know, whether you believe campaign contributions are speech or property, that I learned to love very dearly the right of free expression when I lived without that freedom for a while a long time ago.

Take young researchers, put them together in virtual seclusion, give them an unprecedented degree of freedom and turn up the pressure by fostering competitiveness.

Perfect freedom is reserved for the man who lives by his own work and in that work does what he wants to do.

And we know that once we have a majority that are dependent upon the government, we will lose our freedom; it says we go into bondage. That's the next stage.

But, based on my friendship with Evie as young mothers, I started going on freedom rides in 1966.