Quotes About Freedom

Let me say that if the political arena is your choice as you work to keep our democracy strong and our essential freedoms accessible for all, then that is what you should do, and I salute you. We need champions in all walks of our civic discourse.

I reserve the right to tell shaggy dog stories or even common jokes as part of what I'm doing. I don't give a damn if half the audience walks out.

Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!

When the Berlin Wall came down the Americans cried, 'Victory,' and walked off the field.

When someone says 'Yasss queen!' to me, I turn around and, X-Men style, run through a wall. You'll never hear from me again.

Ruby inherited the Perl philosophy of having more than one way to do the same thing. I inherited that philosophy from Larry Wall, who is my hero actually. I want to make Ruby users free. I want to give them the freedom to choose.

No slavery can be abolished without a double emancipation, and the master will benefit by freedom more than the freed-man.

I'm not a Christian for your benefit. I'm a Christian for my benefit, and how I walk my walk is my business, and how you walk your walk is your business.

Honestly, there's so many great benefits of wearing a kilt: It's very free, it's got its own aeration, and they're very comfortable.

I'll do what I've got to do in my own career and my own life. For my own happiness. I'm not gonna be bent over a barrel and told what to do.

Always be your husband's best friend, make him laugh and give him a little bit of freedom - you can't suffocate him.

The best way that I can give my best advice is not to be encumbered with any job with any administration.

I do my best work alone. I travel alone a lot.

Stephen's belief was that if you were free to do your absolute best work, you would be rewarded. My belief was that if you gave all of yourself to what you believed was right, then that would be enough.

I've got like a week and a half left, all bets are off.

The world would be a much better place if everyone was doing what they wanted to do.

If I can bicycle, I bicycle.

I love a bicycle, and I haven't been without at least one since I was three years old.

It's only in the United States that they make a big deal about nudity.

First, it was a big deal for girls to dress more like guys. Then it was a big deal for straight men to be metereosexuals and care about their appearance in the way that a gay man would. Now we have to take it a step further - men should be able to not wear men's clothes if they don't want to.

I believe with my sage and epigrammatic friend P. J. O'Rourke that a government big enough to give you everything you want is also big enough to take it all away.

I'm not a big fan of people telling each other what to do, I'll say that.

I think I have enough of a sense to know what works for me and what doesn't, without going into some big thing and analyzing what I do. I'm in a position that allows me to do what I want to do, and I do it.

I'd always had a big thing for the '60s.