Freedom Quotes

Don't ever dare to take your college as a matter of course - because, like democracy and freedom, many people you'll never know have broken their hearts to get it for you.

Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth; when perfect sincerity is expected, perfect freedom must be allowed; nor has anyone who is apt to be angry when he hears the truth any cause to wonder that he does not hear it.

I was inspired to write this book by those who are sceptical of the power of freedom to change the world.

Since the Revolution, eight generations of America's veterans have established an unbroken commitment to freedom.

If one more 'journalist' makes a cavalier statement about me and my band, I will personally or with my fans' help, greet them at their home and discover just how much they believe in their freedom of speech.

Freedom of expression is the matrix, the indispensable condition, of nearly every other form of freedom.

A new breeze is blowing, and a world refreshed by freedom seems reborn; for in man's heart, if not in fact, the day of the dictator is over. The totalitarian era is passing, its old ideas blown away like leaves from an ancient, lifeless tree.

When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists; but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more.

I believe in freedom of speech, but I believe we should also have the right to comment on freedom of speech.

If this liberal potential is properly channeled, we may expect the area of freedom of the United States to increase. The problem is to spend up our rate of social invention in the service of the welfare of all the people.

People demand freedom only when they have no power.

With one man, there was a freedom and liberation. That was with Michael Hutchence, my partner in life.

When truth is no longer free, freedom is no longer real: the truths of the police are the truths of today.

I don't think that artists of any kind would or could sacrifice their artistic freedom by being more responsible with their influence on people, especially young people.

Freedom is living without chains.

To be able to love and live in freedom means to be able to make godly decisions. To make godly decisions we have to surrender our egos and all the falsity and shame that goes with it.

The wisest use of American strength is to advance freedom.

Israel was born under the British mandate. We learned from the British what democracy means, and how it behaves in a time of danger, war and terror. We thank Britain for introducing freedom and respect of human rights both in normal and demanding circumstances.

No one who has lived even for a fleeting moment for something other than life in its conventional sense and has experienced the exaltation that this feeling produces can then renounce his new freedom so easily.

We don't appreciate what we have until it's gone. Freedom is like that. It's like air. When you have it, you don't notice it.

And it's one thing to give people freedom and something else to deny the rights of Christians to assert their faith in order to keep Hindus from feeling upset.

I can say now: all the combatants who participated in the fight for freedom in South America came to Algeria; it's from there that all those who fought left. We trained them, we arranged for the weapons to reach them, we created networks.

I have tasted freedom. I will not give up that which I have tasted.

We know there is no such thing as freedom without the risk of failure.

To silence criticism is to silence freedom.

I will always vote on the side of freedom and our right to keep and bear arms.

If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom, and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too.

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

I'm interested in anything about revolt, disorder, chaos, especially activity that appears to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom.

I will never understand people who think that the way to show their righteous opposition to sexual freedom is to write letters full of filthy words.