Quotes About Freedom

A great work is made out of a combination of obedience and liberty.

Somebody was asking me the other day - President Bush is now talking about freedom for the Arab world. I say, well, that's great. I was talking about that fifty years ago.

The Swiss are well armed and enjoy great freedom.

If freedom makes social progress possible, so social progress strengthens and enlarges freedom. The two are inseparable partners in the great adventure of humanity.

In Kenya you've got the great birds and monkeys leaping through the trees overhead. It's a chance to remember what the world is really like.

That's free enterprise, friends: freedom to gamble, freedom to lose. And the great thing - the truly democratic thing about it - is that you don't even have to be a player to lose.

An audience sabotages my freedom, devastates my innocence, corrupts my integrity, inhibits my great joy - and of course gives me further to fall.

It is a paradoxical statement, but it takes incredible personal discipline to play with great freedom.

If you disagree with me, fine! Because that's the great thing about America, we can disagree!

I have great confidence in the universal value and in basic human rights and I have great confidence that referenda will eventually take root and become part of our daily lives in Taiwan.

Many great ideas need refreshment and deeper analysis. "Freedom," for example, is a great idea but it has become a cliché.

I am one of those that always get accidentally guillotined when the Great Day of Liberation comes, because ... I guess ... I am full of parentheses. Revolutions can't abide parentheses.

Great research universities must insist on independence from government and on the exercise of academic freedom.

The fundamentals that founded our great nation included the freedom of speech and religion.

One of the great things about working for Netflix is that they haven't placed any restrictions on content or artistically.

For me, fiction's great gift - to writer and reader, alike - is freedom.

I have great confidence in Taiwan's democracy.

Always, at every period, the few were the banner bearers of a great idea, of liberating effort. Not so the mass, the leaden weight of which does not let it move.

For me reading was always the great escape without getting your fingers burnt.

Envy is more irreconcilable than hate. It is the most corroding of all political vices and also a great power in our land. The friends of freedom are content to be envied, but envy not.

Don't let anyone tell you that great things can't happen in America... Barriers can come down. Justice and equality can win.

Despotism accomplishes great things illegally; liberty doesn't even go to the trouble of accomplishing small things legally.

in this great war [WWI] ... they had, all of them, on all sides, lost their freedom. The freedom to think hopefully of the future.

We have a lot of options. America is a great country.