Freedom Quotes

But it required a disastrous, internecine war to bring this question of human freedom to a crisis, and the process of striking the shackles from the slave was accomplished in a single hour.

~ Wendell Willkie

I was raised in the '70s, and I've worked with people I love, and I've been on sets with my parents, with people who run a set and require of actors a sense of liberty and freedom and exploration and failure into brave achievement.

~ Laura Dern

We know there is no such thing as freedom without the risk of failure.

~ Rick Perry

My failure to lay aside the sin that so easily entangles is the direct result of my refusal to die to my natural proclivity toward attaining my own freedom, meaning, value, worth, and righteousness - not believing that, by virtue of my Spirit - wrought union with Christ, everything I need, I already possess.

~ Tullian Tchividjian

Young players need freedom of expression to develop as creative players... they should be encouraged to try skills without fear of failure.

~ Arsene Wenger

Is anarchism possible? The failure of attempts to attain freedom does not mean the cause is lost.

~ Johann Most

Love myself I do. Not everything, but I love the good as well as the bad. I love my crazy lifestyle, and I love my hard discipline. I love my freedom of speech and the way my eyes get dark when I'm tired. I love that I have learned to trust people with my heart, even if it will get broken. I am proud of everything that I am and will become.

~ Johnny Weir

Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself - and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine with them. That's what real love amounts to - letting a person be what he really is.

~ Jim Morrison

We, the People, recognize that we have responsibilities as well as rights; that our destinies are bound together; that a freedom which only asks what's in it for me, a freedom without a commitment to others, a freedom without love or charity or duty or patriotism, is unworthy of our founding ideals, and those who died in their defense.

~ Barack Obama

To know yourself as the Being underneath the thinker, the stillness underneath the mental noise, the love and joy underneath the pain, is freedom, salvation, enlightenment.

~ Eckhart Tolle

Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.

~ Rabindranath Tagore

A man can be himself only so long as he is alone, and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom, for it is only when he is alone that he is really free.

~ Arthur Schopenhauer

There is nothing wrong with America that faith, love of freedom, intelligence, and energy of her citizens cannot cure.

~ Dwight D. Eisenhower

Children should have enough freedom to be themselves - once they've learned the rules.

~ Anna Quindlen

One of the biggest challenges we have, folks, is making liberty and freedom cool.

~ Rush Limbaugh

Growing up, it was uncool to admit that your family had any money. And then, instantly, money was cool. In Reagan's parlance, it was about freedom of the individual, which was freedom to be greedy... individual versus society. There was a weird seduction in that, which I still feel.

~ John Cameron Mitchell

We've seen over time that countries that have the best economic growth are those that have good governance, and good governance comes from freedom of communication. It comes from ending corruption. It comes from a populace that can go online and say, 'This politician is corrupt, this administrator, or this public official is corrupt.'

~ Ramez Naam

Magical realism allows an artist like myself to inject layers of meaning without being obvious. In American culture, where there is freedom of expression, this approach may seem forced, unnecessary and misunderstood. But this system of communication has become very Iranian.

~ Shirin Neshat

I am in favor of complete freedom of information and of free access to the new communication tools, in particular the Internet.

~ Omar Bongo

There's a lot to love about America - freedom, the melting pot of diversity, individualism - all attractive concepts, especially to an introvert. In fact, the introverts were probably the first to feel crowded in England and to daydream about all the space they would find in the New World. Peace! Quiet!

~ Laurie Helgoe

That sacred space of conscience where you can exercise your rights in terms of religious freedom and deeply-held, reasonable beliefs is the core of human dignity. In fact, that's the basis for civilization itself. And when you lose that fundamental principle... you have no basis on which to build.

~ Jeff Fortenberry

A just laicism allows religious freedom. The state does not impose religion but rather gives space to religions with a responsibility toward civil society, and therefore it allows these religions to be factors in building up society.

~ Pope Benedict Xvi

I loved climbing because of the freedom, and having time and space. I remember coming off Everest for the last time, thinking of Dad and wishing that he could have seen what I saw. He would have loved it.

~ Bear Grylls

I suppose there's a melancholy tone at the back of the American mind, a sense of something lost. And it's the lost world of Thomas Jefferson. It is the lost sense of innocence that we could live with a very minimal state, with a vast sense of space in which to work out freedom.

~ George Will

Westerns are simple stories where there's good and there's evil and where people had a sense of space and freedom. Growing up in the city, as a kid, you've never really seen that before. It's a beautiful dream to go from concrete to big skies, dirt and horses.

~ Antoine Fuqua

When I launched the development of the GNU system, I explicitly said the purpose of developing this system is so we can use our computers and have freedom, thus if you use some other free system instead but you have freedom, then it's a success. It's not popularity for our code but it's success for our goal.

~ Richard Stallman

You have riches and freedom here but I feel no sense of faith or direction. You have so many computers, why don't you use them in the search for love?

~ Lech Walesa

As we see thousands of public and private Christmas trees and nativity displays around the country, they remind us again of the powerful American value built into our Constitution: our freedom of religion.

~ James Lankford

Financial freedom is available to those who learn about it and work for it.

~ Robert Kiyosaki

Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. And so we must straighten our backs and work for our freedom. A man can't ride you unless your back is bent.

~ Martin Luther King

Freedom without rules doesn't work. And communities do not work unless they are regulated by etiquette.

~ Judith Martin

When you're not concerned with succeeding, you can work with complete freedom.

~ Larry David

In the beginning, I loved being famous, but now I am tired of it and I would like to go back to my freedom.

~ Roberto Cavalli

Dr. King's famous 'I Have a Dream' speech was delivered at 'The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom,' a call to justice beyond the traditional civil rights movement's focus.

~ Charles B. Rangel

Being big and famous doesn't get you more freedom, it gets you less.

~ Robert Wyatt

Born a slave, Harriet Tubman was determined not to remain one. She escaped from her owners in Maryland on the Underground Railroad in 1849 and then fearlessly returned thirteen times to help guide family members and others to freedom as the most famous conductor of the Underground Railroad.

~ Susan Campbell Bartoletti

Just living is not enough... one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.

~ Hans Christian Andersen

As human beings, we are endowed with freedom of choice, and we cannot shuffle off our responsibility upon the shoulders of God or nature. We must shoulder it ourselves. It is our responsibility.

~ Arnold J. Toynbee

As long as men are free to ask what they must, free to say what they think, free to think what they will, freedom can never be lost and science can never regress.

~ Marcel Proust

Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.

~ Baruch Spinoza