Freedom Quotes

The precondition to freedom is security.

~ Rand Beers

The thing is this: You got to have fun while you're fightin' for freedom, 'cause you don't always win.

~ Molly Ivins

But I do believe that a woman's truest place is in a home, with a husband and with children, and with large freedom, pecuniary freedom, personal freedom, and the right to vote.

~ Lucy Stone

I chose America as my home because I value freedom and democracy, civil liberties and an open society.

~ George Soros

If one more 'journalist' makes a cavalier statement about me and my band, I will personally or with my fans' help, greet them at their home and discover just how much they believe in their freedom of speech.

~ Marilyn Manson

For more than four decades, the Libyan people have been ruled by a tyrant - Moammar Gaddafi. He has denied his people freedom, exploited their wealth, murdered opponents at home and abroad, and terrorized innocent people around the world - including Americans who were killed by Libyan agents.

~ Barack Obama

People are responsible adults at home. Why do we suddenly transform them into adolescents with no freedom when they reach the workplace?

~ Ricardo Semler

What good to me is the festive garment of freedom when I am in a slave's smock at home?

~ Johann Georg Hamann

Our nation was built by pioneers - pioneers who accepted untold risks in pursuit of freedom, not by pioneers seeking offshore profits at the expense of American workers here at home.

~ Ted Strickland

No phone. No pool. No pets. No cigarettes. Ultimate freedom... No longer to be poisoned by civilization, he flees, and walks alone upon the land to become Lost in the Wild.

~ Christopher Mccandless

Singing provides a true sense of lightheartedness. If I sing when I am alone, I feel wonderful. It's freedom.

~ Andrea Bocelli

Freedom of being alone is intoxicating.

~ Kangana Ranaut

I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do. I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.

~ Robert A. Heinlein

Within the soul of America is freedom of mind and spirit in man. Here alone are the open windows through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit. Here alone is human dignity not a dream but an accomplishment. Perhaps it is not perfect, but it is more full in realization here than any other place in the world.

~ Herbert Hoover

The right to be let alone is indeed the beginning of all freedoms.

~ William O. Douglas

If I have freedom in my love, And in my soul am free, - Angels alone that soar above, Enjoy such liberty.

~ Richard Lovelace

The more decisions that you are forced to make alone, the more you are aware of your freedom to choose.

~ Thornton Wilder

I've used the prestige and influence of having been a president of the United States as effectively as possible. And secondly, I've still been able to carry out my commitments to peace and human rights and environmental quality and freedom and democracy and so forth.

~ Jimmy Carter

There's every reason to think that whatever their political leanings, Americans will be highly receptive to numerous reforms designed to improve health, safety, economic security, environmental quality and democratic self-government - at least if those reforms do not eliminate their freedom of choice.

~ Cass Sunstein

Time after time we're told corporations should have freedom from pesky job safety regulations, environmental protections and labor standards - giving working people the freedom to be crushed in collapsing mines, choke on filthy air and get paid too little to live on.

~ Richard Trumka

Two things form the bedrock of any open society - freedom of expression and rule of law. If you don't have those things, you don't have a free country.

~ Salman Rushdie

If society fits you comfortably enough, you call it freedom.

~ Robert Frost

Humanism: an exaltation of freedom, but one limited by our need to exercise it as an integral part of nature and society.

~ John Ralston Saul

In many respects, the United States is a great country. Freedom of speech is protected more than in any other country. It is also a very free society.

~ Noam Chomsky

I defend both the freedom of expression and society's right to counter it. I must pay the price for differing. It is the natural way of things.

~ Naguib Mahfouz

Freedom without virtue isn't freedom - it will eventually destroy a society.

~ Rush Limbaugh

Remove advertising, disable a person or firm from proclaiming its wares and their merits, and the whole of society and of the economy is transformed. The enemies of advertising are the enemies of freedom.

~ David Ogilvy

The very moment you understand that being a Muslim and being American or European are not mutually exclusive, you enrich your society. Promote the universal principles of justice and freedom, and leave the societies elsewhere to find their model of democracy based on their collective psychology and cultural heritage.

~ Tariq Ramadan

An open society is a society which allows its members the greatest possible degree of freedom in pursuing their interests compatible with the interests of others.

~ George Soros

Much of the misgiving that Muslims feel for the West stems from our strong emphasis on freedom, always a risky enterprise. I've heard some say they would rather rear their children in a closely guarded Islamic society than in the United States, where freedom so often leads to decadence.

~ Philip Yancey

I think this society suffers so much from too much freedom, too many rights that allow people to be irresponsible.

~ Boyd Rice

I believe we can, and must, strike a balance between our shared American values of religious liberty and freedom from discrimination. My concerns lie with the possible consequences of politically-driven legislation which claims to promote religious liberty but instead rolls back the legal protections held by LGBT Americans.

~ Gary Johnson

So the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund is out there preserving and fighting for, and sometimes winning and sometimes losing, the fight for First Amendment rights in comics and, more generally, for freedom of speech.

~ Neil Gaiman

'Network neutrality' is sometimes called 'Internet freedom' or 'Internet openness' and is a legal principle that would forbid cable and phone companies like AT&T, Verizon, and Comcast from blocking some websites or providing special priority to others.

~ Marvin Ammori

Coercion may prevent many transgressions; but it robs even actions which are legal of a part of their beauty. Freedom may lead to many transgressions, but it lends even to vices a less ignoble form.

~ Wilhelm Von Humboldt

The legal difference between the sit-ins and the Freedom Riders was significant.

~ Constance Baker Motley

Sometimes, being a single mother, I miss the freedom. I see my other friends with kids, and when they go out for a drink, it is the dad that stays in.

~ Julia Restoin Roitfeld