Freedom Quotes

"I believe the Patriot Act strikes the right balance needed to protect our freedom and security"

Bill Owens, Politician

"The most important issue we have to deal with is freedom of movement"

Anna Lindh, Politician

"I think my first album opened a lot of doors for me to push the freedom of speech to the limit"

Eminem, Musician

"Whenever men take the law into their own hands, the loser is the law. And when the law loses, freedom languishes"

Robert Kennedy, Politician

"I am a Republican, a black, dyed in the wool Republican, and I never intend to belong to any other party than the party of freedom and progress"

Frederick Douglass, Author

"Ultimately, America's answer to the intolerant man is diversity, the very diversity which our heritage of religious freedom has inspired"

Robert Kennedy, Politician

"A mere forty years ago, beach volleyball was just beginning. No bureaucrat would have invented it, and that's what freedom is all about"

Newt Gingrich, Politician

"I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom"

Simone de Beauvoir, Writer

"Responsibility and respect of others and their religious beliefs are also part of freedom"

Horst Koehler, Statesman

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

Boyd Rice, Artist

"We have built our State on the freedom of personal adventure"

John Grierson, Director

"American movies and music deliver themes of freedom, innocence, and power that appeal to others - partly because America itself was put together out of a multiplicity of national traditions"

Todd Gitlin, Sociologist

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

Frederick Douglass, Author

"We are driven by five genetic needs: survival, love and belonging, power, freedom, and fun"

William Glasser, Psychologist

"I've returned to being an amateur without any ties or strings attached, which gives me a freedom I never had before"

Cat Stevens, Musician

"Obedience is detachment from the self. This is the most radical detachment of all. But what is the self? The self is the principle of reason and responsibility in us. It is the root of freedom, it is what makes us men"

Bede Griffiths, Clergyman

"If the Resurrection is resurrection from the dead, all hope and freedom are in spite of death"

Paul Ricoeur, Philosopher

"Tyranny is always better organized than freedom"

Charles Peguy, Philosopher

"Freedom is a system based on courage"

Charles Peguy, Philosopher

"I do not want art for a few any more than education for a few, or freedom for a few"

William Morris, Designer

"I will never understand people who think that the way to show their righteous opposition to sexual freedom is to write letters full of filthy words"

Anna Quindlen, Journalist

"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"

Joseph Ratzinger, Clergyman

"Freedom of choice is more to be treasured than any possession earth can give"

David O. McKay, Clergyman

"There aren't traditions of freedom in a place like Iraq. They're going to have to come to grips with a concept that they hadn't been allowed to conceive before"

Malcolm Wallop, Politician

"Judgment traps you within the limitations of your comparisons. It inhibits freedom"

Willie Stargell, Athlete

"Freedom is an indivisible word. If we want to enjoy it, and fight for it, we must be prepared to extend it to everyone, whether they are rich or poor, whether they agree with us or not, no matter what their race or the color of their skin"

Wendell Willkie, Lawyer

"Even though we know freedom as an idea we're not really as free as we think we are"

Richard O'Brien, Actor

"Not to mention the fact that of course terrorists hate freedom. I think they do hate. But believe me, I don't think they sit there abstractly hating freedom"

Zbigniew Brzezinski, Politician

"When people say 'What are underground comics?' I think the best way you can define them is just the absolute freedom involved... we didn't have anyone standing over us"

Robert Crumb, Artist

"There are considerable advantages to using many degrees of freedom to store information, stability and controllability being perhaps the most important"

Seth Lloyd, Educator

"I regard the principle of conscription of life as a flat contradiction of all our cherished ideals of individual freedom, democratic liberty and Christian teaching"

Roger Nash Baldwin, Activist

"The freedom to connect to the world anywhere at anytime brings with it the threat of unscrupulous predators and criminals who mask their activities with the anonymity the Internet provides to its users"

Mike Fitzpatrick, Politician

"At 6 years old, the ice became a place for me to express myself. Because I was so shy off the ice, it became my safe haven, with music and freedom and self-expression. That was my emotional outlet"

Kristi Yamaguchi, Athlete

"Freedom Summer, the massive voter education project in Mississippi, was 1964. I graduated from high school in 1965. So becoming active was almost a rite of passage"

Danny Glover, Actor

"I have always been a firm believer in the longstanding American principle of having the right to bear arms and I will remain committed to see that this freedom is not infringed upon, revoked, or limited in any way"

Jeff Miller, Politician

"The challenge as we saw in the Nigerian project was to restructure the economy decisively in the direction of a modern free market as an appropriate environment for cultivation of freedom and democracy and the natural emergence of a new social order"

Ibrahim Babangida, Statesman

"Freedom is always and exclusively freedom for the one who thinks differently"

Rosa Luxemburg, Activist

"Bush is morally a universalist. For instance, he says the freedom is good, the same thing is good, all over the world. So in that sense he's a universalist"

Peter Singer, Philosopher

"The fact is that we cannot drill our way to independence. We cannot drill our way to freedom, and we cannot drill our way to create jobs in this country"

Jay Inslee, Politician

"When I began we did not really have a lot of First Amendment law. It is really surprising to think of it this way, but a lot of the law - most of the law that relates to the First Amendment freedom of the press in America - is really within living memory"

Floyd Abrams, Lawyer

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