Quotes About Freedom

Free government is founded in jealousy, and not in confidence; it is jealousy, and not confidence, which prescribes limited constitutions, to bind down those whom we are obliged to trust with power.

Health, contentment, and trust are your greatest possessions. And freedom your greatest joy.

When there's writing that you really trust, it's very freeing as an artist.

Trust me, there are as many ways of living as there are men, and one is no more fit to lead another, than a bird to lead a fish, or a fish a quadruped.

Nobody can be trusted with unlimited power. The more power a regime has, the more likely people will be killed. This is a major reason for promoting freedom.

In Ethiopia, the problem is that you don't know who's who. You don't know who to trust. You don't have any freedom.

I feel as if I could trust my happiness to carry me; as if it had grown out of me like wings.

He who would save liberty must put his trust in democracy.

I am tired of clinging. Though I cannot see it with my eyes, I trust that the current knows where it is going. I shall let go, and let it take me where it will. Clinging, I shall die of boredom.

It is trust, but it is also courage - that you can leave an individual to his own devices and say "explore and experiment" and think, "It's okay, I'll see what it sounds like when I come back."

Love needs two things: it has to be rooted in freedom and it has to know the art of trust.

Not everyone is lucky enough to be given space and trust.

We view our Nation's strength and security as a trust, upon which rests the hope of free men everywhere.

-She is like the wind, open and free. If I cage the wind, would it die? -Then don't cage it, Mikhail. Trust it to stay beside you.

I am a free spirit. I am very impulsive. I put the most trust in people chance after chance, regardless of how they treat me.

In order to grow you have to let go of all that you are and all that you know.

The further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it.

Sometimes it seem like to tell the truth today is to run the risk of being killed. But if I fall, I'll fall five feet four inches forward in the fight for freedom. I'm not backing off.

The truth is like a lion; you don't have to defend it. Let it loose; it will defend itself.

Before the TRUTH can set you free,you must first recognize which LIES are holding you hostage.

It is only the TRUTH that can make a man FREE, it is only the TRUTH that can make a man LIVE.

Education means emancipation. It means light and liberty. It means the uplifting of the soul of man into the glorious light of truth, the light by which men can only be made free.

The most tyrannical of governments are those which make crimes of opinions, for everyone has an inalienable right to his thoughts.

The spiritual journey is individual, highly personal. It can't be organized or regulated. It isn't true that everyone should follow one path. Listen to your own truth.