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Quotes About Freedom

Like other important immigrant communities, the Jewish experience in the United States represents the ideal of freedom and the promise and opportunity of America.
~ Jan Schakowsky
In America, writers are afforded the freedom to express themselves in unlimited manners. Creative liberty is a privilege.
~ Michael Graves
There are many evils in this country. The only remedy for every one of them is freedom for the nation.
~ Kalki Krishnamurthy
Liberty, then, about which so many volumes have been written is, when accurately defined, only the power of acting.
~ Voltaire
There are all too many who, on account of their notorious ineptitude, thrive better in a rationalist system than in freedom. Freedom is one of those difficult things.
~ Carl Jung
I'm getting hassled by a couple of people to release the CRU station temperature data. Don't any of you three tell anybody that the UK has a Freedom of Information Act.
~ Phil Jones
The human race finds itself in a better situation when it has the higher level of freedom.
~ Dante Alighieri
If I write for myself, I write a song and I bring in the musicians that are best suited to play it. There's a freedom there.
~ Paul Stanley
To bargain freedom for security is the devil's bargain. Having made the bargain, one enjoys neither freedom nor security.
~ Gerry Spence
I will not stop fighting against Islam until I have achieved freedom for our country.
~ Geert Wilders
O What A Freedom Is Thine! Freedom from Condemnation. Freedom to the Promises, Freedom to the Throne of Grace, and at last Freedom to Enter Heaven!
~ Charles Spurgeon
Direct and easy communications — freedom of speech in all forms and in its broadest sense — has become vital to the very survival of a civilized humanity.
~ Walt Disney
It is often safer to be in chains than to be free.
~ Franz Kafka
Freedom, peace, and inner joy will continue to elude us until we become aware of our real truth, without hiding ourselves or being ashamed of what we are.
~ Lynn Grabhorn
To no form of religion is woman indebted for one impulse of freedom.
~ Susan B. Anthony
Everywhere that freedom stirs, let tyrants fear.
~ George W. Bush
This was freedom. Losing all hope was freedom.
~ Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
Censorship is the child of fear and the father of ignorance.
~ Laurie Halse Anderson, Speak
I think my first album opened a lot of doors for me to push the freedom of speech to the limit.
~ Eminem
Who is more to be pitied, a writer bound and gagged by policemen or one living in perfect freedom who has nothing more to say?
~ Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
I suggest to my students that they write under a pseudonym for a week. That allows young men to write as women, and women as men. It allows them a lot of freedom they don't have ordinarily.
~ Joyce Carol Oates
True freedom is the capacity for acting according to one's true character, to be altogether one's self, to be self-determined and not subject to outside coercion.
~ Corliss Lamont
One certain effect of war is to diminish freedom of expression.
~ Howard Zinn
I can remember when Democrats believed that it was the duty of America to fight for freedom over tyranny.
~ Zell Miller