Quotes About Freedom

We must defend freedom of expression and if I had to chose, I prefer the excess of caricature over the excess of censure.

Freedom has nothing to do with having the right to vote for your oppressor; freedom is not having any form of oppression.

The real measure of our power is the freedom and opportunity we create for others.

I preach deliverance to others, I tell them there is freedom, while I hear my own chains clang.

What is the conservative movement? It's pretty straightforward. We believe that the way prosperity is created is when people have the freedom and the opportunity to pursue their dreams.

How absurd men are! They never use the liberties they have, they demand those they do not have. They have freedom of thought, they demand freedom of speech.

I wanted to get far away from those who believed in cruelty, so then I went to France, a land of true freedom, democracy, equality and fraternity.

The goal of the EU is to form a region of freedom, security and justice. Freedom in this connection cannot be just the freedom of the strong, but it must be combined with fraternity and equality.

The threat or fear of violence should not become an excuse or justification for restricting freedom of speech.

The very aim and end of our institutions is just this: that we may think what we like and say what we think.

Animals see the unobstructed world with their whole eyes. But our eyes, turned back upon themselves, encircle and seek to snare the world, setting traps for freedom.

If you say, I'm living in America and I have freedom of speech but I choose not to use it because it's going to cost me, well, you're not living in freedom. You're not free.

Our fate is matched by the total freedom we have to react to our fate. It is as if we were dealt a hand of card. Once we have them, we are free to play them as we choose.

The most persistent threat to freedom, to the rights of Americans, is fear.

Sketching is the breath of art: it is the most refreshing of all the more impulsive forms of creative self-expression and, as such, it should be as free, and happy, as a song in the bath.

I don't like the spirit of socialism - I think freedom is the basis of everything.

Fear is the memory of pain. Addiction is the memory of pleasure. Freedom is beyond both.

Old age, calm, expanded, broad with the haughty breadth of the universe, old age flowing free with the delicious near-by freedom of death.

As far as I am concerned, freedom summer never really ended.

Freedom and slavery, the one is the name of virtue, and the other of vice, and both are acts of the will.

Perhaps the biggest tragedy of our lives is that freedom is possible, yet we can pass our years trapped in the same old patterns.

You cannot legislate the poor into freedom by legislating the wealthy out of freedom.

The oppression of any people for opinion's sake has rarely had any other effect than to fix those opinions deeper, and render them more important.

We have had no specific or credible threats, but we don't take that as any kind of comfort. We know we need to be ready and we know that, that vigilance is the price of freedom.