Quotes About Freedom

Freedom means the supremacy of human rights everywhere.

Freedom has a price. Most people aren't willing to pay it.

I cling like a miser to the freedom that disappears as soon as there is an excess of things.

As long as I have any choice in the matter, I shall live only in a country where civil liberty, tolerance and equality of all citizens before the law prevail.

I am not aspiring to be a senior bureaucrat. It would limit my freedom.

Of old sat Freedom on the heights The thunders breaking at her feet: Above her shook the starry lights; She heard the torrents meet.

Back a hundred years ago, especially around Woodrow Wilson, what happened in this country is we took freedom and we chopped it into pieces.

I think that freedom is sometimes a state of mind. Sometimes, mind you, but not always.

If you can make people understand why freedom is so important through the arts, that would be a big help.

For Castro, freedom starts with education. And if literacy alone were the yardstick, Cuba would rank as one of the freest nations on Earth.

To my mind the single essential element on which all discoveries will be dependent is human freedom.

The key to freedom is accepting my own autonomy as an individual, and respecting the autonomy of other individuals, with all of what that means - whatever that means.

You don't have freedom because you are a hyphenated American; you have freedom because you are an individual, and that should be protected.

It seems very obvious that a vast majority of the American people are sick and tired of political correctness and prevailing partisanship that does not serve the American people or freedom well.

Those who see their lives as spoiled and wasted crave equality and fraternity more than they do freedom. If they clamor for freedom, it is but freedom to establish equality and uniformity.

Let it never be said of this generation of Americans that we became so obsessed with failure that we refused to take risks that could further the cause of peace and freedom in the world.

If you don't allow freedom, then you can't have freedom.

It's in the private places of the heart that freedom is made or unmade by the discipline we create there.

What we call the freedom of the individual is not just the luxury of one intellectual to write what he likes to write but his being a voice which can speak for those who are silent.

The current motto for all of us can only be this: without giving up anything on the plane of justice, yield nothing on the plane of freedom.

And statesmen at her council met Who knew the seasons, when to take Occasion by the hand, and make The bounds of freedom wider yet.

[Freedom is] the societal condition that exists when every individual has 100% control of his own property.

The famous are balloons far up in the sky, to be envied for their quiet freedom or shot down as enemies.

There's a real sense of freedom now. It's a good time to finish, I think. As much as I'm going to miss it I'm ready to move on and do different things.