Freedom Quotes

If one wanted to find a modern symbol of personal freedom, the motor car is right there near the top of the list. But a car has come to mean much more than that. It has become a powerful statement about who you are and how much you earn.

~ Martin Jacques

VW has held a beloved place in American culture. When I graduated from college, many of my friends drove across the country, and most hit the road in a VW van or Bug. Through the years, these cars have represented youth, freedom and quirkiness.

~ Frances Beinecke

You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.

~ Malcolm X

In South Africa, we could not have achieved our freedom and just peace without the help of people around the world, who through the use of non-violent means, such as boycotts and divestment, encouraged their governments and other corporate actors to reverse decades-long support for the Apartheid regime.

~ Desmond Tutu

We will not waver; we will not tire; we will not falter, and we will not fail. Peace and Freedom will prevail.

~ George W. Bush

In peace, the Middle East, the ancient cradle of civilization, will become invigorated and transformed. Throughout its lands there will be freedom of movement of people, of ideas, of goods.

~ Menachem Begin

Before we went on any protest, whether it was sit-ins or the freedom rides or any march, we prepared ourselves, and we were disciplined. We were committed to the way of peace - the way of non-violence - the way of love - the way of life as the way of living.

~ John Lewis

Everything I want to do, and to accomplish, is on the other side of the universe. That's peace of mind, energy, freedom. And I'm making myself ready to go, joyfully and willingly. I think I'm ready to be everybody's friend, and to do anything for anybody. It's heavy.

~ Richie Havens

I most sincerely wish that the world in which we live be free from the threat of a nuclear holocaust and from the ruinous arms race. It is my cherished desire that peace be not separated from freedom which is the right of every nation. This I desire and for this I pray.

~ Lech Walesa

Today, hundreds of millions dwell in freedom, from the Baltic to the Adriatic, from the Western Approaches to the Aegean. And while we must never take this for granted, the first purpose of the European Union - to secure peace - has been achieved and we should pay tribute to all those in the EU, alongside Nato, who made that happen.

~ David Cameron

The plan shows that the twenty million people in the German democratic Republic and in the democratic sector of Berlin think only of peace, and that they are working for freedom and peaceful prosperity.

~ Walter Ulbricht

The days of the Pentagon Papers debates seem long past, when a sudden transparency yielded insight into fights over war and peace and freedom and security; the transparency afforded by Twitter and Facebook yields insights that extend no further than a lawmaker's boundless narcissism and a culture's pitiless prurience.

~ Nancy Gibbs

To avoid the trap of Europe fragmenting on the economy, security, and identity, we have to return to the original promises of the European project: peace, prosperity and freedom. We should have a real, adult, democratic debate about the Europe we want.

~ Emmanuel Macron

This enemy of peace in the world today is unlike any we have seen in the past, and our military is learning from, and building on, previous successes while carrying peace and freedom into the future.

~ Mark Kennedy

Instead of trying to make your life perfect, give yourself the freedom to make it an adventure, and go ever upward.

~ Drew Houston

As opposed to trying to make a kiss look romantic or sweet or passionate, it's kind of fun to just have the freedom to make it look weird, goofy and awkward.

~ Gillian Jacobs

In a relationship, it's important to make each other laugh. To give each other freedom, support each other and be proud of each other.

~ Caroline Winberg

Justice is never given; it is exacted and the struggle must be continuous for freedom is never a final fact, but a continuing evolving process to higher and higher levels of human, social, economic, political and religious relationship.

~ A. Philip Randolph

How much we need, in the church and in society, witnesses of the beauty of holiness, witnesses of the splendour of truth, witnesses of the joy and freedom born of a living relationship with Christ!

~ Pope Benedict Xvi

Do you remember any instance where tyranny was destroyed and freedom established on its ruins, among a people possessing so small a share of virtue and public spirit? I recollect none, and this more than the British arms makes me fearful of final success, without a reform.

~ Patrick Henry

One of the rewards of success is freedom, the ability to do whatever you like.

~ Sting

Freedom is poetry, taking liberties with words, breaking the rules of normal speech, violating common sense. Freedom is violence.

~ Norman O. Brown

Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.

~ Frederick Douglass

It does not take a majority to prevail... but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men.

~ Samuel Adams

Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage's whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free from men.

~ Ayn Rand

Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.

~ Thomas Paine

If we desire a society in which men are brothers, then we must act towards one another with brotherhood. If we can build such a society, then we would have achieved the ultimate goal of human freedom.

~ Bayard Rustin

All free men, wherever they may live, are citizens of Berlin. And therefore, as a free man, I take pride in the words 'Ich bin ein Berliner!'

~ John F. Kennedy

None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but licence.

~ John Milton

Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.

~ Frederick Douglass

As soon as laws are necessary for men, they are no longer fit for freedom.

~ Pythagoras

Men are freest when they are most unconscious of freedom. The shout is a rattling of chains, always was.

~ D. H. Lawrence

Freedom of expression is tested during times of anger and conflict and enables all opinions and outraged expressions of dissent that we may not want to hear. But even for this there have to be limits.

~ Yair Lapid

I decided to write 'True Refuge' during a major dive in my own health. Diagnosed with a genetic disease that affected my mobility, I faced tremendous fear and grief about losing the fitness and physical freedom I loved.

~ Tara Brach

People don't realize what's really going on in this country. There are a lot things that are going on that are unjust. People aren't being held accountable for. And that's something that needs to change. That's something that this country stands for: freedom, liberty and justice for all.

~ Colin Kaepernick

I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and democracy - but that could change.

~ Dan Quayle

Honoring the sacrifices many have made for our country in the name of freedom and democracy is the very foundation of Veterans Day.

~ Charles B. Rangel

Our soldiers have nobly fought to protect freedom since our country's birth, and have fought to protect those that could not protect themselves, even in foreign lands when called upon.

~ John Linder

America's Veterans have served their country with the belief that democracy and freedom are ideals to be upheld around the world.

~ John Doolittle

Tragically, the effort to make America and the world safer and to defend freedom around the world is not without an enormous cost to this Nation in terms primarily of lost lives and those who bear the scars and the wounds of war, and their families who must bear these losses.

~ John Warner