Quotes About Freedom

It's lovely to live on a raft. We had the sky up there, all speckled with stars, and we used to lay on our backs and look up at them, and discuss about whether they was made or only just happened.

I think this society suffers so much from too much freedom, too many rights that allow people to be irresponsible.

All stories interest me, and some haunt me until I end up writing them. Certain themes keep coming up: justice, loyalty, violence, death, political and social issues, freedom.

Only freedom from prejudice and tireless zeal avail for the most holy of the endeavours of mankind, the practice of the true art of healing.

I think the freedom to express one's views is more important than intellectual property.

They may take our lives, but they'll never take our freedom!

I don't think that artists of any kind would or could sacrifice their artistic freedom by being more responsible with their influence on people, especially young people.

Absolute freedom of the press to discuss public questions is a foundation stone of American liberty.

We are living in the excesses of freedom. Just take a look at 42nd Street and Broadway.

When the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free and was never free again.

Any time we deny any citizen the full exercise of his constitutional rights, we are weakening our own claim to them.

The framers of our Constitution meant we were to have freedom of religion, not freedom from religion.

Without freedom of the press, there can be no representative government.

It is bad to be oppressed by a minority, but it is worse to be oppressed by a majority.

Blood and tears are going to be our lot, whether we like them or not. Our blood and tears will flow; maybe the parched soil of India needs them so that the fine flower of freedom may grow again.

Dream the impossible. Know that you are born in this world to do something wonderful and unique; don't let this opportunity pass by. Give yourself the freedom to dream and think big.

Freedom cannot be granted. It must be taken.

The reason why I hated school so intensely [was that] it interfered with my freedom.

Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage's whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free from men.

Only oppression should fear the full exercise of freedom.

Medicare will usher in federal programs that will invade every area of freedom as we have know it in this country.

I believe we are here on the planet Earth to live, grow up and do what we can to make this world a better place for all people to enjoy freedom.

Music means freedom to me. But in acting you can pretend to be someone else and I like that.

The day before the anniversary of D-Day, we lost a man who was equaled by few and surpassed by none as a leader in the cause of freedom: Ronald Reagan.