Famous Quotes
- We must face the fact that the preservation of individual freedom is incompatible with a full satisfaction of our views of distributive justice.
- Friedrich August Von Hayek on Freedom
- We must guard against the overreaching hand of big government trying to take away our freedom. And we must always protect the environment in a manner consistent with our values.
- Steve Forbes on Freedom
- We must plan for freedom, and not only for security, if for no other reason than that only freedom can make security secure.
- Karl Popper on Freedom
- We need international support so that our people live a life of normality, of dignity, of liberty and freedom. I hope that our cry for freedom may be heard.
- Mahmoud Abbas on Freedom
- We need the children of Indonesia and the Philippines to manufacture our freedom of choice.
- Marc Maron on Freedom
- We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower on Freedom
- We should favor innovation and freedom over regulation.
- George Allen on Freedom
- We still believe in the America that is a land of opportunity and a beacon of freedom. We believe in the America that challenges each of us to be better and bigger than ourselves.
- Mitt Romney on Freedom
- We who officially value freedom of speech above life itself seem to have nothing to talk about but the weather.
- Barbara Ehrenreich on Freedom
- We will not be intimidated or pushed off the world stage by people who do not like what we stand for, and that is, freedom, democracy and the fight against disease, poverty and terrorism.
- Madeleine Albright on Freedom
- We will not waver we will not tire we will not falter, and we will not fail. Peace and Freedom will prevail.
- George W. Bush on Freedom
- We're giving our freedoms away. The American experiment was about freedom. Freedom to be stupid, freedom to fail, freedom to succeed.
- Glenn Beck on Freedom
- We've got to understand that the whole nature of the way American democracy guards its freedom has been changed.
- John Ashcroft on Freedom
- We, the People, recognize that we have responsibilities as well as rights that our destinies are bound together that a freedom which only asks what's in it for me, a freedom without a commitment to others, a freedom without love or charity or duty or patriotism, is unworthy of our founding ideals, and those who died in their defense.
- Barack Obama on Freedom
- Wealth is a tool of freedom, but the pursuit of wealth is the way to slavery.
- Frank Herbert on Freedom
- Well, I'm a libertarian conservative, so I believe in limited government/maximum individual freedom.
- John Bolton on Freedom
- Well, if crime fighters fight crime and fire fighters fight fire, what do freedom fighters fight? They never mention that part to us, do they?
- George Carlin on Freedom
- Well, one thing, you got to stand in a courtroom and listen to a judge sentencing you to 25 years in prison before you realize that freedom of expression can no longer be taken for granted.
- Larry Flynt on Freedom
- Well, the first thing is that truth and power for me form an antithesis, an antagonism, which will hardly ever be resolved. I can define in fact, can simplify the history of human society, the evolution of human society, as a contest between power and freedom.
- Wole Soyinka on Freedom
- What Churchill described as the twin marauders of war and tyranny have been almost entirely banished from our continent. Today, hundreds of millions dwell in freedom, from the Baltic to the Adriatic, from the Western Approaches to the Aegean.
- David Cameron on Freedom
- What creates freedom? A revolution in the streets? Mass protest? Civil war? A change of government? The ousting of the old guard and its replacement by the new? History, more often than not, shows that hopes raised by such events are often dashed, sooner rather than later.
- Jonathan Sacks on Freedom
- What does it mean to be an American? While each of us may have our own specific answer to that question, we likely can agree on the basic principles of America: freedom, equal opportunity, and rights accompanied by responsibilities.
- Ben Nelson on Freedom
- What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.
- Salman Rushdie on Freedom
- What is ominous is the ease with which some people go from saying that they don't like something to saying that the government should forbid it. When you go down that road, don't expect freedom to survive very long.
- Thomas Sowell on Freedom
- What is our freedom fight about? Is it about the liberation of children or just having sex with them?
- Kate Millett on Freedom
- What is the conservative movement? It's pretty straightforward. We believe that the way prosperity is created is when people have the freedom and the opportunity to pursue their dreams.
- Marco Rubio on Freedom
- What is the essence of America? Finding and maintaining that perfect, delicate balance between freedom 'to' and freedom 'from.'
- Marilyn Vos Savant on Freedom
- What then is freedom? The power to live as one wishes.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero on Freedom
- What we have at present is a system of loss socialism. Whatever goes wrong is shouldered by the general public and anything that works is privatised. Worshippers of market freedom have suspended the most important economic principle: Risk and liability go hand in hand.
- Sigmar Gabriel on Freedom
- Whatever the immediate gains and losses, the dangers to our safety arising from political suppression are always greater than the dangers to the safety resulting from political freedom. Suppression is always foolish. Freedom is always wise.
- Alexander Meiklejohn on Freedom
- When a truth is not given complete freedom, freedom is not complete.
- Vaclav Havel on Freedom
- When freedom does not have a purpose, when it does not wish to know anything about the rule of law engraved in the hearts of men and women, when it does not listen to the voice of conscience, it turns against humanity and society.
- Pope John Paul II on Freedom
- When I launched the development of the GNU system, I explicitly said the purpose of developing this system is so we can use our computers and have freedom, thus if you use some other free system instead but you have freedom, then it's a success. It's not popularity for our code but it's success for our goal.
- Richard Stallman on Freedom
- When I was in jail, I was a lot of people's favorite person. I practically ran the jail. I had more freedom than the police.
- Flavor Flav on Freedom
- 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.
- Jonathan Kozol on Freedom
- 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.
- Serj Tankian on Freedom
- When I went off to the army when I was 17 years old, I believed in America and the rights of freedom. But today I believe my government is lying to the American people and that my president, George Bush, is a criminal.
- Jack Herer on Freedom
- When one makes a Revolution, one cannot mark time one must always go forward - or go back. He who now talks about the 'freedom of the press' goes backward, and halts our headlong course towards Socialism.
- Vladimir Lenin on Freedom
- When others stood idly by, you and your families gave your all, in defence of a risen people and in pursuit of Irish freedom and unity.
- Gerry Adams on Freedom
- 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.
- John Adams on Freedom
- When public access to voting is impaired or when public confidence in voting is diluted, democracy suffers and our freedom is less secure.
- DeForest Soaries on Freedom
- When the United States was founded, the very idea of a nation premised on democratic principles of freedom and tolerance was viewed by the vast majority of the world as an experiment doomed to fail. Dictatorships, monarchies, and theocracies had for many centuries ruled the world.
- Eliot Spitzer on Freedom
- When there is state there can be no freedom, but when there is freedom there will be no state.
- Vladimir Lenin on Freedom
- When we are unwilling to draw clear moral lines between free societies and fear societies, when we are unwilling to call the former good and the latter evil, we will not be able to advance the cause of peace because peace cannot be disconnected from freedom.
- Natan Sharansky on Freedom
- When we lose the right to be different, we lose the privilege to be free.
- Charles Evans Hughes on Freedom
- When we talk of freedom and opportunity for all nations, the mocking paradoxes in our own society become so clear they can no longer be ignored.
- Wendell Willkie on Freedom
- When we, through our educational culture, through the media, through the entertainment culture, give our children the impression that human beings cannot control their passions, we are telling them, in effect, that human beings cannot be trusted with freedom.
- Alan Keyes on Freedom
- When you're not concerned with succeeding, you can work with complete freedom.
- Larry David on Freedom
- Whenever men take the law into their own hands, the loser is the law. And when the law loses, freedom languishes.
- Robert Kennedy on Freedom
- Where globalization means, as it so often does, that the rich and powerful now have new means to further enrich and empower themselves at the cost of the poorer and weaker, we have a responsibility to protest in the name of universal freedom.
- Nelson Mandela on Freedom
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