Quotes About Freedom

I think Billie is the kind of girl who would let her hips swing loose.

But if I feel comfortable swinging in a short skirt or shorts, if I feel athletic and strong and confident, I can do that, and you shouldn't call me certain names for it.

History has always been a series of pendulum swings, but the individual doesn't have to get caught in that.

It's all right with me if Roman Polanski is freed by the Swiss authorities who have detained him at the request of the United States - if first I get a chance to bust him one in the mouth.

Most of us are imprisoned by something. We're living in darkness until something flips on the switch.

It's great to just disappear, grab a suitcase, switch the answering machine on and just go somewhere else.

There's some freedom that you get with indie films that you don't get with the big-budget ones. There's just a different style. I hope I can switch back and forth for the rest of my career, but I've kind of grown up on indies, and there's nothing better than working with these directors so closely and and being such a huge part of the process.

The best thing about switching from being an actor to being a director is that you don't have to shave or hold your stomach in anymore.

The censor's sword pierces deeply into the heart of free expression.

Israel was not created in order to disappear - Israel will endure and flourish. It is the child of hope and the home of the brave. It can neither be broken by adversity nor demoralized by success. It carries the shield of democracy and it honors the sword of freedom.

To this wonderful page in our country's history another more glorious still will be added, and the slave shall show at last to his free brothers a sharpened sword forged from the links of his fetters.

I think the I.R.S. is a Sword of Damocles over the First Amendment, and I think it is a menace.

In America it's live by the sword of freedom of expression and be will to die by it as well.

I was extremely close with my parents. Breaking away from that is a double-edged sword: It's something you need to do, but it's hard to cut the apron strings.

I have sworn eternal opposition to slavery, and by the blessing of God, I will never go back.

We have not even sworn off. Instead, the problem has been removed. It does not exist for us.

The enemies of freedom are waging an all-out assault on the Second Amendment to the Constitution, which we have sworn to protect and defend.

When I was 23, I went backpacking around Australia for three months. I saved up a few grand, quit my job and flew to Sydney, then went to Melbourne and up the East Coast, which was an incredible experience. I remember running out of money and getting my mum to send me a few hundred quid, which helped me get by.

Dick Gregory used every syllable, every metaphor, every joke, every march, every incarceration, every hour of his life, to embarrass this country into providing a more perfect, perfect union.

Like any art, what is the most imprisoning thing is also the most delivering thing. If an actor knows he only has 12 syllables in a line, the challenge is, 'How can I interpret the meaning and contain it without going one syllable over?'

The rainbow flag is a symbol of freedom and liberation that we made for ourselves.

The American flag is the most recognized symbol of freedom and democracy in the world.

My country will be a symbol of free human society.

Now, do I think there has to be shared sacrifice among other nations in the world who want a stable and secure world? Absolutely, there has to be. But I don't think that America can ever abdicate its leadership role in the world because of who we are and where we've come from. We are the symbol for the world for freedom and liberty.