Famous Quotes
- Today's Constitution is a realistic document of freedom only because of several corrective amendments. Those amendments speak to a sense of decency and fairness that I and other Blacks cherish.
- Thurgood Marshall on Freedom
- Today, hundreds of millions dwell in freedom, from the Baltic to the Adriatic, from the Western Approaches to the Aegean. And while we must never take this for granted, the first purpose of the European Union - to secure peace - has been achieved and we should pay tribute to all those in the EU, alongside Nato, who made that happen.
- David Cameron on Freedom
- Too much freedom can lead to the soul's decay.
- True freedom is the capacity for acting according to one's true character, to be altogether one's self, to be self-determined and not subject to outside coercion.
- Corliss Lamont on Freedom
- True freedom is where an individual's thoughts and actions are in alignment with that which is true, correct, and of honor - no matter the personal price.
- Bryant H. McGill on Freedom
- True freedom requires the rule of law and justice, and a judicial system in which the rights of some are not secured by the denial of rights to others.
- Jonathan Sacks on Freedom
- True human goodness, in all its purity and freedom, can come to the fore only when its recipient has no power.
- Milan Kundera on Freedom
- True independence and freedom can only exist in doing what's right.
- Brigham Young on Freedom
- True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt on Freedom
- Ultimately we know deeply that the other side of every fear is freedom.
- Marilyn Ferguson on Freedom
- Ultimately, America's answer to the intolerant man is diversity, the very diversity which our heritage of religious freedom has inspired.
- Robert Kennedy on Freedom
- Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.
- Milton Friedman on Freedom
- Unnecessary possessions are unnecessary burdens. If you have them, you have to take care of them! There is great freedom in simplicity of living. It is those who have enough but not too much who are the happiest.
- Peace Pilgrim on Freedom
- Until you have lost your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was or what freedom really is.
- Margaret Mitchell on Freedom
- Value your freedom or you will lose it, teaches history. 'Don't bother us with politics', respond those who don't want to learn.
- Richard Stallman on Freedom
- Victorious living does not mean freedom from temptation, nor does it mean freedom from mistakes.
- E. Stanley Jones on Freedom
- Violent means will give violent freedom. That would be a menace to the world and to India herself.
- Mahatma Gandhi on Freedom
- War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.
- George Orwell on Freedom
- Watching President Obama apologize last week for America's arrogance - before a French audience that owes its freedom to the sacrifices of Americans - helped convince me that he has a deep-seated antipathy toward American values and traditions.
- Rick Santorum on Freedom
- We all have the right of freedom of speech under the First Amendment. We all don't have to agree with one another on our opinions. Everyone in my circle, that I run around with, we all feel the same about God, country, integrity and character.
- Luke Scott on Freedom
- We are a nation in which freedom is alive in the squares and streets, in the daily work of the communications media, in the open relationship between the governing and the governed.
- Vicente Fox on Freedom
- We are all different. Yet we are all God's children. We are all united behind this country and the common cause of freedom, justice, fairness, and equality. That is what unites us.
- Barbara Boxer on Freedom
- We are driven by five genetic needs: survival, love and belonging, power, freedom, and fun.
- William Glasser on Freedom
- We are expected to believe that anyone who objects to the Department of Homeland Security or the USA Patriot Act is a terrorist, and that the only way to preserve our freedom is to hand it over to the government for safekeeping.
- L. Neil Smith on Freedom
- We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought.
- Bertrand Russell on Freedom
- We are living in the excesses of freedom. Just take a look at 42nd Street and Broadway.
- Will Durant on Freedom
- We are willing enough to praise freedom when she is safely tucked away in the past and cannot be a nuisance. In the present, amidst dangers whose outcome we cannot foresee, we get nervous about her, and admit censorship.
- E. M. Forster on Freedom
- We believe in individual initiative, personal responsibility, opportunity, freedom, small government, the Constitution. These principles, these American principles are key to getting our economy back to being successful and leading the world.
- Mitt Romney on Freedom
- We believe it wrong ever to take a dollar from a free citizen without a very necessary public purpose, because each such taking diminishes the freedom to spend that dollar as its owner would prefer.
- Mitch Daniels on Freedom
- We believe that salvation is to be found in wholesome work in a beloved land. Work will provide our people with the bread of tomorrow, and moreover, with the honor of the tomorrow, the freedom of the tomorrow.
- Theodor Herzl on Freedom
- We call our country home of the brave and land of the free, but it's not. We give a false portrayal of freedom. We're not free - if we were, we'd allow people their freedom.
- Jesse Ventura on Freedom
- We can be thankful to a friend for a few acres, or a little money and yet for the freedom and command of the whole earth, and for the great benefits of our being, our life, health, and reason, we look upon ourselves as under no obligation.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca on Freedom
- We can't equate democracy with Christianity because the largest democracy on earth is India, which is primarily Hindu. The third largest democracy is Indonesia, which is Islamic. Democracy and freedom are not dependent on Christian beliefs.
- Jimmy Carter on Freedom
- We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home.
- Edward R. Murrow on Freedom
- We cannot expect that all nations will adopt like systems, for conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.
- John F. Kennedy on Freedom
- We chose more freedom instead of more government. We chose the principles of our founding to solve the challenges of our time. We chose a special man to lead us in a special time. We chose Mitt Romney to lead our nation.
- Marco Rubio on Freedom
- We clearly realize that freedom's inner kingdom cannot be touched by exterior attacks.
- Vernon Howard on Freedom
- We do not commonly see in a tax a diminution of freedom, and yet it clearly is one.
- Herbert Spencer on Freedom
- 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.
- Boris Yeltsin on Freedom
- We don't have an Official Secrets Act in the United States, as other countries do. Under the First Amendment, freedom of the press, freedom of speech, and freedom of association are more important than protecting secrets.
- Alan Dershowitz on Freedom
- We gain freedom when we have paid the full price.
- Rabindranath Tagore on Freedom
- We have convinced over one billion members of the Islamic faith that we are prejudiced against their religion, that we would deny them freedom of religion, that we want suppress their culture and invade their governments.
- Theodore C. Sorensen on Freedom
- We hold our heads high, despite the price we have paid, because freedom is priceless.
- Lech Walesa on Freedom
- We in the United States should be all the more thankful for the freedom and religious tolerance we enjoy. And we should always remember the lessons learned from the Holocaust, in hopes we stay vigilant against such inhumanity now and in the future.
- Charlie Dent on Freedom
- We know from our own history that democratic institutions take decades to mature, and we know from past conflicts that freedom is not free.
- Jim DeMint on Freedom
- We know the road to freedom has always been stalked by death.
- Angela Davis on Freedom
- We know there is no such thing as freedom without the risk of failure.
- Rick Perry on Freedom
- We know what works. Freedom Works. We know what's right. Freedom is right.
- George H. W. Bush on Freedom
- We live in a land like no other - a land of freedom and opportunity unparalleled on the face of the globe.
- We must be willing to pay a price for freedom.
- H. L. Mencken on Freedom
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