Quotes About Freedom

So, first you have to be able to play with a metronome. Then you take your freedom. If you play in an orchestra, you got to watch the conductor, he is like a metronome, but it is more difficult because he can change rhythms.

She goes through the vale of death alone, each time a babe is born. As it is the right neither of man nor the state to coerce her into this ordeal, so it is her right to decide whether she will endure it.

One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes a revolution in order to establish a dictatorship.

In the East, the main object is to have a well-ordered society so that everybody can have maximum enjoyment of his freedoms. This freedom can only exist in an ordered state and not in a natural state of contention and anarchy.

In Cyberspace, the First Amendment is a local ordinance.

What people don't understand is this is something that we only have in America. There is no other country in the world where the ordinary citizen can go out and enjoy hunting and fishing. There's no other nation in the world where that happens. And it's very much a part of our heritage.

I had a dream of music and art and the big city in which I would get lost, where no one would know me and I wouldn't know anyone, where I would work at some ordinary job, and if one day I got up in the morning and decided I wasn't going to go to work anymore, no one would ask questions.

'Ordinary Grace' freed me. I don't have to write only Cork O'Connor novels now. I'm liberated. I can write whatever I want to write.

If you're going to have a free economy, one in which the ordinary citizen can dispose of his own income, you're going to have people who dispose of it in an anti-social way.

The Constitution was made for ordinary people.

There are certain things that ordinary people have that celebrities don't have.

But I don't believe in organised politics, organised religion, organised music, organised anything.

I don't believe in organised happiness.

You don't want to go around willy-nilly suing news organizations. That's probably self-defeating.

Freedom means the right of people to assemble, organize, and debate openly.

Fundamental is the need for governments to protect the space for citizens to claim their rights, organize, and express themselves.

People have a fundamental right to organize. It's rooted very much in the Constitution and people's right to free association.

The great thing about being a novelist is that you organize your own day.

I well remember a leading Egyptian liberal saying to me in 2003 that she did not favor free elections right then in Egypt; she favored them in a decade's time if she and others had those 10 years to organize freely.

I've always broken out in hives when I go into any organized religious situation.

No one should be discriminated against because of their sexual orientation.

I wouldn't want anyone to tell me that I couldn't marry the person I loved, and I don't want to do that to anyone else regardless of sexual orientation.

I believe that individuals in our country should not face discrimination for their sex or their gender or their sexual orientation.

The federal government has no business in restricting basic human rights based on sexual orientation, and I am ready to protect equality at every turn in Congress.