Freedom Quotes

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.

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 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.