Quotes About Freedom

It is best to erase all personal history because that would make us free from the encumbering thoughts of other people

As an artist you are free to use any image, any style, any idea from any culture and any period of history.

History is at once freedom and necessity.

We must be the great arsenal of Democracy.

The real movement of history, it turns out, is fueled not by matter but by spirit, by the will to freedom.

If you figure a way to live without serving a master, any master, then let the rest of us know, will you? For you'd be the first person in the history of the world.

The Declaration of Independence is a sacred part of American history.

Throughout history, even the harshest and most shameful measures are regularly accompanied by professions of noble intent - and rhetoric about bestowing freedom and independence.

They can shout down the head of the physics department at Cal Tech.

I enjoy doing different kinds of things. I just enjoy being not tied too much. I feel that I'm tied to myself as a kind of traditional musician and a singer, and the history that I have ties me down.

The victory of liberalism enables them to sue their victors.

One who comes to the Court must come to adore, not to protest. That's the new gloss on the First Amendment.

History may be servitude. History may be freedom. See, now they vanish. The faces and places, with the self which, as it could, loved them, to become renewed, transfigured, in another pattern.

To write history one must be more than a man, since the author who holds the pen of this great justiciary must be free from all preoccupation of interest or vanity.

Trial by jury must be preserved. It is the best system ever invented for a free people in the world's history.

At various periods in American history, people get pretty rambunctious when it comes to our democratic debate.

We know from our own history that democratic institutions take decades to mature, and we know from past conflicts that freedom is not free.

Our history is an inevitable component of our being. One thing only can release us from the grip of our history. That one thing is forgiveness.

The trial of Ernst Zundel has gone down in Canadian history.

Emancipation was a proclamation, but not a fact.

We have many times led Europe in the fight for freedom. It would be an ignoble end to our long history if we tamely accepted to perish by degrees.

The history of this country was made largely by people who wanted to be left alone. Those who could not thrive when left to themselves never felt at ease in America.

We are the prisoners of history. Or are we?

History...a release from the troublesome promiscuous present.