Quotes About Freedom

People can get crazier as they get older. I can just be weird whenever I want, and there's the freedom of not caring what people think.

I have lost the freedom of not having an opinion.

Sales were lukewarm. Back home there was no freedom, but there were readers. Here there was freedom enough, but readers were missing.

To know yourself as the Being underneath the thinker, the stillness underneath the mental noise, the love and joy underneath the pain, is freedom, salvation, enlightenment.

When truth is no longer free, freedom is no longer real: the truths of the police are the truths of today.

Nature smiles at the union of freedom and equality in our utopias. For freedom and equality are sworn and everlasting enemies, and when one prevails the other dies.

As our federal government has grown too large and too powerful, the real loss has been the freedom of people to govern their own lives and participate fully in the American dream.

You see, freedom has a way of destroying things.

The cloud is free only to go with the wind. The rain is free only in falling.

Freedom is taking control of the rudder of your life.

The American experience influenced my understanding of individuality, basic human rights, freedom of expression and the rights and responsibilities of citizens.

I know of no country in which there is so little independence of mind and real freedom of discussion as in America.

We want freedom for our country, but not at the expense or exploitation of others, not so as to degrade other countries.

An almost hysterical antagonism toward the gold standard is one issue which unites statists of all persuasions. They seem to sense... that gold and economic freedom are inseparable.

There are tensions abroad where people don't understand our attachment to the freedom of speech, we've seen the protests, and I would say that in France all beliefs are respected.

Our plans protect freedom and opportunity, and our blueprint is the Constitution of the United States.

I'm all about freedom in art. I'm from Texas, so when someone tells you which way to ride your horse, you think 'I'll just go to a different ranch. You guys are riding it backwards anyway.

Freedom really means the freedom to make mistakes.

Freedom unexercised may become freedom forfeited.

The hardest task needs the lightest hand or else its completion will not lead to freedom but to a tyranny much worse than the one it replaces.

Freedom comes from seeing the ignorance of your critics and discovering the emptiness of their virtue.

The general interest of the masses might take the place of the insight of genius if it were allowed freedom of action.

Running away will never make you free.

Pay off your debt first. Freedom from debt is worth more than any amount you can earn.