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Quotes About Freedom

Strength is measured not by holding on, but by letting go.
~ Lenny Santos
The strength of the genie comes from being in a bottle.
~ Richard Wilbur
Right motives give pinions to thought, and strength and freedom to speech and action.
~ Mary Baker Eddy
The grandeur and strength or our people and democracy are as big as a forest.
~ Chen Shui-bian
Lend your voices only to sounds of freedom, no longer lend your strength to that which you wish to be free from. Fill your life with love and bravery, and you shall live a life uncommon.
~ Jewel
[Magna Carta provided] "a system of checks and balances which would accord the monarchy its necessary strength, but would prevent its perversion by a tyrant or a fool.
~ Winston Churchill
It is a good idea to obey all the rules when you're young just so you'll have the strength to break them when you're old.
~ Mark Twain
Openness without strength is useless; strength without openness is oppression.
~ DANIELE BOLELLI
O how sweet it is to enjoy life, Living in honesty and strength! And wisdom is sweet, And freedom.
~ Gautama Buddha
It's being willing to walk away that gives you strength and power - if you're willing to accept the consequences of doing what you want to do.
~ Whoopi Goldberg
Nelson Mandela was a man of incomparable honor, unconquerable strength, and unyielding resolve---a saint to many, a hero to all who treasure liberty, freedom and the dignity of humankind.
~ Morgan Freeman
So long as we govern our nation by the letter and spirit of the Bill of Rights, we can be sure that our nation will grow in strength and wisdom and freedom.
~ Dwight D. Eisenhower
I would like to be a free artist and nothing else, and I regret God has not given me the strength to be one.
~ Anton Chekhov
One thing I've learned in life is that I can speak for myself, that I can fight my own battles. I don't like anyone telling me how I'm supposed to feel or think or what I'm supposed to say.
~ Hope Solo
The net has provided a level playing field for criticism and comment - anyone and everyone is entitled to their opinion - and that is one of its greatest strengths.
~ Sara Sheridan
We can take full comfort in realizing the continuing strength of our nation. Americas lands remain radiantly rich with diversity, and freedom still reigns.
~ Ben Nelson
An awakened people who rely upon their nonviolent strength are independent in the face of any conceivable combination of the armed powers.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Strong souls Live like fire-hearted suns to spend their strength In farthest striving action; breathe more free In mighty anguish than in trivial ease.
~ George Eliot
Those who spend their strength in field and factory would rather hear that their emancipation is bound to come than that it is something to be hazardously purchased by struggle and sacrifice.
~ Sylvia Townsend Warner
Knowledge-full, unfettered knowledge of its own heritage, of freedom's enemies, of the whole world of men and ideas-this knowledge is a free people's surest strength.
~ Dwight D. Eisenhower
Our strength lies, not alone in our proving grounds and our stockpiles, but in our ideals, our goals, and their universal appeal to all men who are struggling to breathe free.
~ Adlai Stevenson I
Don't give up the fight, Stand up for your rights.
~ Bob Marley
I don't need to be tame, because dragons choose their partner by themselves.
~ Olivia Sinaga
Meditation is the only way to freedom from stress as it is a dimension beyond the mind. All the stress and struggle are of the mind.
~ Jaggi Vasudev