Freedom Quotes

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.

There's something contagious about demanding freedom.

The 'Bird's Nest' National Stadium, which I helped to conceive, is designed to embody the Olympic spirit of 'fair competition.' It tells people that freedom is possible but needs fairness, courage and strength.

For more than 20 years, on every one of the great issues of freedom and security, John Kerry has been more wrong, more weak and more wobbly than any other national figure.

Freedom in a commons brings ruin to all.

The growing tide of anti-Semitism shocks the conscious of everyone who values freedom, and the ugly, hateful acts particularly stain the character of democracies where liberty and religious freedom are supposed to be respected.

I'm up here in Cleveland tonight and there are a lot of folks who are concerned about it. Twenty-five percent of the people up here get their health care through religious organizations and so that religious freedom issue is very important to them.

You measure a democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists.

People want the freedom. They want to be able to shop. If you don't like the shop trading hours and you're a shop owner, you don't have to open.

You have an absolute freedom in Mexican writing today in which you don't necessarily have to deal with the Mexican identity. You know why? Because we have an identity... We know who we are. We know what it means to be a Mexican.

Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.

Freedom only for the members of the government, only for the members of the Party - though they are quite numerous - is no freedom at all.

The show is a satire, which gives us freedom to do anything we want. Satire is the magic word that wipes away any culpability. The media is jealous of this freedom.

The South resented giving the Afro-American his freedom, the ballot box and the Civil Rights Law.

Once I know people know who I am, it gives me a lot of licence and freedom to behave in ways I wouldn't normally.

I am just absolutely convinced that the best formula for giving us peace and preserving the American way of life is freedom, limited government, and minding our own business overseas.