Quotes About Freedom

It is with your aid, as the people, that I think we shall be able to preserve - not the country, for the country will preserve itself, but the institutions of the country - those institutions which have made us free, intelligent and happy - the most free, the most intelligent, and the happiest people on the globe.

Summer is the time when one sheds one's tensions with one's clothes, and the right kind of day is jeweled balm for the battered spirit. A few of those days and you can become drunk with the belief that all's right with the world.

If we are to keep our democracy, there must be one commandment: 'Thou shalt not ration justice.'

By the will art thou lost, by the will art thou found, by the will art thou free, captive, and bound.

Why hast thou made me born in this country, The inhabitant of which is satisfied with being a slave?

If we are to keep democracy, there must be a commandment: Thou shalt not ration justice.

I can think that you are mistaken, but I have to be ready to give my life to maintain your right to make mistakes. I have to, though, have the right to say that you're mistaken. This is the principal of the liberal society.

There is never a shortage anywhere of lawyers eager to attack the First Amendment, as though it were nothing more than a clause in a lease from a crooked slumlord.

You will be pleased to know I stand obediently for the national anthem, though of course I would defend your right to remain seated should you so decide.

Let a hundred flowers bloom, let a hundred schools of thought contend.

I never thought I would see the outside of Chicago.

I've always thought it'd be nice to be seaweed, kind of just floating about.

I would hope to inspire in my listeners a feeling of freedom - of speech, thought and political activity.

I have always thought of music as a highway with many lanes.

There are necessary evils. Money is an important thing in terms of representing freedom in our world. And now I have a daughter to think about. It's really the first time I've thought about the future and what it could be.

When I was little I thought, isn't it nice that everybody celebrates on my birthday? Because it's July 4th.

If I start playing by the rules, I will inhibit myself of the possibilities that lie beyond. I don't like to be framed or given borders to operate in or curtail my thought process and as a writer it's not only my choice but also my need to go beyond the given framework.

Beyond any question, the way the American founders consistently linked faith and freedom, republicanism and religion, was not only deliberate and thoughtful, it was also surprising and anything but routine.

Judy Miller is the most innocent person in this case. I really thought that was outrageous that she was jailed and we needed as journalists to draw a line in the sand in a strong but thoughtful way.

I'm very big into just feeling good and doing what I want; I'm not very calculated or thoughtful about my moves.

Don't join the book burners. Do not think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed.

Next thing you know they'll take your thoughts away.

Having a book censored means something. It means you have deeply offended one or more people who felt they needed to protect unsuspecting readers from your inflammatory words, thoughts, and images.

Our pain hides beneath these fluttering, random thoughts that run through our heads in an endless loop. But there's so much freedom in getting to know what's under there, the bedrock.