Freedom Quotes

Freedom. Freedom of religion. Freedom to speak their mind. Freedom to build a life. And yes, freedom to build a business. With their own hands. This is the essence of the American experience.

Most men, after a little freedom, have preferred authority with the consoling assurances and the economy of effort it brings.

Well, since I produce and pay for my own albums, it is the ultimate freedom.

Before anything else, we need a new age of Enlightenment. Our present political systems must relinquish their claims on truth, justice and freedom and have to replace them with the search for truth, justice, freedom and reason.

Two hundred years ago, our precursors in Haiti struck a blow for freedom, which was heard around the world, and across centuries.

It is for each of us freely to choose whom we shall serve, and find in that obedience our freedom.

Today is a celebration of hope for the Iraqi people. The Iraqi people can now take control of their government and their future by creating a society that protects the rights endowed to us by our creator - life, liberty and freedom.

I do get angry some time, but if I let that feeling take over it would only cloud my thinking and disable me from making the right decision when it counts the most. I just try to think about my mother, children, God, and of course my freedom.

There are considerable advantages to using many degrees of freedom to store information, stability and controllability being perhaps the most important.

Five or six hundred heads cut off would have assured your repose, freedom and happiness.

I am in favor of complete freedom of information and of free access to the new communication tools, in particular the Internet.

If governments let themselves be fully bound by the decisions of their parliaments without protecting their own freedom to act, a breakup of Europe would be a more probable outcome than deeper integration.

I am truly free only when all human beings, men and women, are equally free. The freedom of other men, far from negating or limiting my freedom, is, on the contrary, its necessary premise and confirmation.

I am a Republican, a black, dyed in the wool Republican, and I never intend to belong to any other party than the party of freedom and progress.

The search for human freedom can never be complete without freedom for women.

The freedom to criticize judges and other public officials is necessary to a vibrant democracy. The problem comes when healthy criticism is replaced with more destructive intimidation and sanctions.

The humor is essentially dark for a cartoon and sophisticated. But at the same time, being a cartoon gives the writers more freedom than in a normal sitcom. It always pushes the line that, despite human failings, the Simpsons are really decent people.

Real change isn't found in some new way to think about yourself, but in freedom from the need to think about yourself at all.

I hope my work has inspired young artists. I have always tried to maintain my freedom as an artist and I feel it is one of the main reasons I have been successful.

That's part of American greatness, is discrimination. Yes, sir. Inequality, I think, breeds freedom and gives a man opportunity.

If the Resurrection is resurrection from the dead, all hope and freedom are in spite of death.

If a film is very clever and well-written, that's what gives you freedom as a director.

Power in defense of freedom is greater than power in behalf of tyranny and oppression.

Freedom is coming to mean little more than the right to ask permission.

If you scratch below the surface and ask what really makes me tick, it's the liberalism of trying to promote freedom and opportunity. Promoting social mobility is one of the keys to that.

When I was younger, I was listening to a lot of Armenian music, you know, revolutionary music about freedom and protest. In the 70s I was listening to soul and the Bee Gees and ABBA, and funk.

Bahrain 's margin of freedom is growing day after day as we head into the future with steady steps.

Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride.

For science must breathe the oxygen of freedom.

We do not consecrate the flag by punishing its desecration, for in doing so, we dilute the freedom this cherished emblem represents.