Quotes About Freedom

Dad would often say "The next generation will follow anyone who will promise personal peace and affluence. If they are asked to make a choice between freedom and security they'll choose security. It will be the new fascism.

As an ultimate fuck you to rule-keeping scripture zealots everywhere, Jesus hung out with whores.

The Best Things In Life Are Free" The moon belongs to everyone, The best things in life are free. The stars belong to everyone, They gleam there for you and me. The flowers in spring, the robins that sing, The moonbeams that shine, they're yours, they're mine. And love can come to everyone, The best things in life are free.

If you possess something but you can't give it away, then you don't possess it ... it possesses you.

Someone once said that you don't hold a grudge. It holds you. Holding a grudge is self-inflicted pain. Consequently, bitterness doesn't imprison those who hurt you. It imprisons you.

Sometimes when we think we are keeping a secret, the secret is actually keeping us.

Someday I will have nothing left to lose. I can't wait.

I don't feel like I have to conform when I'm with you.

I read your secrets to escape from my own.

Search fearlessly for every sin, for out of sin comes joy.

If you end up with a boring miserable life because you listened to your mom, your dad, your teacher, your priest, or some guy on television telling you how to do your shit, then you deserve it.

The illusion of freedom will continue as long as it's profitable to continue the illusion. At the point where the illusion becomes too expensive to maintain, they will just take down the scenery, they will pull back the curtains, they will move the tables and chairs out of the way and you will see the brick wall at the back of the theater.

There is no such thing as a dirty word. Nor is there a word so powerful, that it's going to send the listener to the lake of fire upon hearing it.

We must remember that any oppression, any injustice, any hatred, is a wedge designed to attack our civilization

Freedom of speech is of no use to a man who has nothing to say and freedom of worship is of no use to a man who has lost his God.

We, too, born to freedom, and believing in freedom, are willing to fight to maintain freedom. We, and all others who believe as deeply as we do, would rather die on our feet than live on our knees.

The winds that blow through the wide sky in these mounts, the winds that sweep from Canada to Mexico, from the Pacific to the Atlantic - have always blown on free men.

We are moving forward to greater freedom, to greater security for the average man than he has ever known before in the history of America.

Men are not prisoners of fate, but prisoners of their own minds.

We look forward to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms. The first is freedom of speech and expression—everywhere in the world. The second is freedom of every person to worship God in his own way—everywhere in the world. The third is freedom from want… everywhere in the world. The fourth is freedom from fear… anywhere in the world.

The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.

Out of this modern civilization economic royalists carved new dynasties…. The royalists of the economic order have conceded that political freedom was the business of the Government, but they have maintained that economic slavery was nobody's business.

Those who have long enjoyed such privleges as we enjoy forget in time that men have died to win them.

Books can not be killed by fire. People die, but books never die. No man and no force can abolish memory... In this war, we know, books are weapons. And it is a part of your dedication always to make them weapons for man's freedom.