Quotes About Freedom

Americans are always moving on. It's an old Spanish custom gone astray, A sort of English fever, I believe, Or just a mere desire to take French leave, I couldn't say. I couldn't really say. But, when the whistle blows, they go away. Sometimes there never was a whistle blown, But they don't care, for they can blow their own Whistles of willow-stick and rabbit-bone, Quail-calling through the rain A dozen tunes but only one refrain, "We don't know where we're going, but we're on our way!"

We had a rock to defend, and we defended it. And the name of that rock is Liberty, and in that name I speak.

For Liberty can be lost by the practical men whose hearts are too shrunken to contain it. Liberty can be bartered away by the greedy minds who cannot see beyond their own day. Liberty can be stolen away by the robber and the brute. But Liberty grows like grass in the hearts of the common people, from the blood of their martyrs. And the tyrants rage and are gone, but the dream and the deed endure.

I call the brave to the battle-line, I call the sane to the council -- I call the free millions of earth to the century ahead -- the century of the common man, established by you, the people. For this world cannot endure, half slave and half free.

The very first things that I did, even in theater, were bad guys. They are meaty roles for the most part. With the bad guy you have more freedom to experiment and go further out than with a good guy.

The truth is that men are tired of liberty.

Liberty is a duty, not a right

Gracias a Dios!, al fin salió esa loca.

mar donde el pensamiento navega a su antojo sin llegar jamás a ninguna orilla;

Qué sientes tú cuando estás alegre? —¿Cuándo estoy libre, contigo, solos los dos en el campo? —Sí. —Pues siento que me nace dentro del pecho una frescura, una suavidad dulce... —¡Ahí te quiero ver! ¡Madre de Dios! Pues ya sabes cómo brilla el sol.

A University should be a place of light, of liberty, and of learning.

This had to be kept secret, of course, since only Catholic artists were allowed to work inside the Vatican, and especially in the pope's chapel. If it had been discovered that Buonarroti had denied the Church and veered into Valdesian Protestantism, he would not only have lost his career, but also his freedom—and possibly his life.

It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature and everlasting beauty of monotony.

It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness & of pain: of strength & freedom. The beauty of disappointment & never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature, & everlasting beauty of monotony.

Here's a nation, one of the founding pillars was freedom of speech and freedom of expression. And yet, we have imposed upon people restrictions on what they can say, on what they can think. And the media is the largest proponent of this, crucifying people who say things really quite innocently.

You can't allow the forces of political correction to shut you up. I mean, why are people afraid to say, 'Merry Christmas?' Give me a break. If people don't like it, yeah, they can go do something else.

Resist this war on God, freedom of religion and freedom of speech.

Don't let anyone turn you into a slave. You're a slave if you let the media tell you that sports and entertainment are more important than developing your brain.

If political authority is not limited, the division of powers, ordinarily the guarantee of freedom, becomes a danger and a scourge.

Fools keep their moral code in a compact and indivisible whole so that it may interfere as little as possible with their actions and leave them their freedom in all matters of detail.

Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter.

All is mystery; but he is a slave who will not struggle to penetrate the dark veil.

We, today, stand on the shoulders of our predecessors who have gone before us. We, as their successors, must catch the torch of freedom and liberty passed on to us by our ancestors. We cannot lose this battle.

I am not unconscious of the persuasive power exerted by these considerations to drag men along in the current but I am not at liberty to travel that road.