Freedom Quotes

Now you know my credo: Free-market capitalism is the best path to prosperity. And let me add to that from our Founding Fathers: Our Creator endowed us with the inalienable rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. In other words, freedom.

~ Lawrence Kudlow

Makeup is no different than clothes and accessories - it's embellishments for your face. And it also gives you creative freedom. You get to have that moment in front the mirror every morning and give yourself self-love. You're making yourself up beautiful, which is essentially self-love.

~ Michelle Phan

Freedom itself was attacked this morning by a faceless coward, and freedom will be defended.

~ George W. Bush

One is a painter because one wants so-called freedom one doesn't want to go to the office every morning.

~ Marcel Duchamp

We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought.

~ Bertrand Russell

I now bid farewell to the country of my birth - of my passions - of my death a country whose misfortunes have invoked my sympathies - whose factions I sought to quell - whose intelligence I prompted to a lofty aim - whose freedom has been my fatal dream.

~ Thomas Francis Meagher

We are in this business, whether it be intelligence or the government, to protect freedom, democracy and liberty, not to violate that.

~ John O. Brennan

Because of the terrorist threat, the FBI and CIA have become as important as the military in preserving our freedom. Yet while thanking our military is standard practice in American life, no one thinks of thanking the FBI, the CIA, or the rest of the intelligence community for keeping us safe since 9/11.

~ Ronald Kessler

The family is the test of freedom because the family is the only thing that the free man makes for himself and by himself.

~ Gilbert K. Chesterton

While we may be of different faiths, we have a strong sense of faith, family, community. We hold the values of freedom and human rights very high and I think that those are all a part of a very strong quilt that binds us together.

~ Bob Menendez

As straight Americans we have two choices: we can choose to sit back and enjoy our rights as we have them, or we can realize that it is actually not freedom at all when our friends, family, neighbors, and colleagues do not share these basic rights.

~ Jack Antonoff

When you look at the world, everyone in the world who cares about his or her family wants to have a major portion of their assets in the United States because we are the growth country and the freedom loving country.

~ Arthur Laffer

I come from a political family. My father was a freedom fighter. He was a prominent leader of the locality and member of the Congress party. He spent 10 years in British prisons. In the evening, in our living room, the only subject we used to discuss was politics. So politics was not unfamiliar to me.

~ Pranab Mukherjee

Charles was very intent to use his years as Prince of Wales to make his mark while he still had freedom of maneuver that he wouldn't have as King. The first subject he really went for was architecture. It made an impact.

~ Anthony Holden

I practised as an architect for 10 years. I qualified in 1973 with a fellowship diploma of architecture. World Series Cricket gave me the freedom to go out and pursue architecture.

~ Max Walker

Everyone should be able to build, and as long as this freedom to build does not exist, the present-day planned architecture cannot be considered art at all.

~ Friedensreich Hundertwasser

Every human has four endowments - self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom... The power to choose, to respond, to change.

~ Stephen Covey

True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.

~ Franklin D. Roosevelt

The United Nations is designed to make possible lasting freedom and independence for all its members.

~ Harry S Truman

True independence and freedom can only exist in doing what's right.

~ Brigham Young

What then is freedom? The power to live as one wishes.

~ Marcus Tullius Cicero

The Vietnamese people deeply love independence, freedom and peace. But in the face of United States aggression they have risen up, united as one man.

~ Hồ Chí Minh

I know of no country in which there is so little independence of mind and real freedom of discussion as in America.

~ Alexis De Tocqueville

True freedom is the capacity for acting according to one's true character, to be altogether one's self, to be self-determined and not subject to outside coercion.

~ Corliss Lamont

I became an actor in that important drama with an inflexible resolution to persevere through the last scene, when we might be permitted and acknowledged to enjoy what we had so nobly declared we would possess, or lose with our lives - Freedom and Independence!

~ Deborah Sampson

Here was buried Thomas Jefferson Author of the Declaration of American Independence Of the Statute of Virginia for religious freedom & Father of the University of Virginia.

~ Thomas Jefferson

The freedom fighters in India's long struggle for independence from British rule, or members of the African National Congress, were once classed as terrorists. History, as they say, is written by victors, but history also has many cunning corridors - how much time must elapse before all those tricky side-passages are revealed?

~ Neel Mukherjee

A free and truly independent press - fiercely independent when necessary - is the red beating heart of freedom and democracy.

~ Dan Rather

New Hampshire is one of the birthplaces of American freedom and independence - a place with a love and a passion for liberty.

~ Marsha Blackburn

It is probable that England will look favorably upon the independence of the Philippines, for it will open their ports to her and afford greater freedom to her commerce.

~ José Rizal

Let me reassure that the Kingdom of Cambodia a country with independence, neutrality, peace, freedom, democracy and human rights as you all have seen, shall be existing with no end.

~ Hun Sen

Freedom of religion is a principle that is central to our Nation's Declaration of Independence. Congress has taken this positive step to protect our freedom to express allegiance to America's flag and the ideals it represents.

~ Ron Lewis

The house of Austria has publicly used every effort to deprive the country of its legitimate Independence and Constitution, designing to reduce it to a level with the other provinces long since deprived of all freedom, and to unite all in a common sink of slavery.

~ Lajos Kossuth

Independence is fun, especially when there's a beloved waiting in the wings, and freedom makes you a more interesting person. Having separate lives brings fresh air into a relationship.

~ Deborah Moggach

Great research universities must insist on independence from government and on the exercise of academic freedom.

~ Alan Dershowitz

I had fought for my independence and fought for my freedom to do as I chose.

~ Kris Kristofferson

I believe in being a happy conservative: that you're happy because your policies will give people greater freedom, greater independence. But you have to explain why your policy makes life better.

~ Kevin Mccarthy

An unlimited America was the vision for the nation set forth by our Founding Fathers. It is the vision enshrined in those two great charters of freedom: our Declaration of Independence and our Constitution. Many of America's most intractable problems stem from the fact that we have strayed from that vision - and lost direction.

~ Sam Brownback

National independence, and the preceding political struggles, helped create the space for literary creation in many post-colonial countries. Much of modern Indian or Chinese literature is inconceivable without the political movement for freedom from foreign rule.

~ Pankaj Mishra

The Declaration of Independence was always our vision of who we wanted to be, our ideal of freedom and justice, how we were going to be different, and what the American experiment was going to be about.

~ Marian Wright Edelman