Freedom Quotes

"So sometimes the facts are good and sometimes the facts are bad, the important thing from the point of view of a principle as broad and important as freedom of speech is that the courts articulate and set forth in a very protective way what those principles are"

Floyd Abrams, Lawyer

"For the freedoms our founding fathers not only dreamed about, but made into reality. It is that same pursuit of freedom today that is helping to make our world a safer place"

John M. McHugh, Politician

"But on the other side I am very glad that I can at least enjoy some freedom"

Mordechai Vanunu, Scientist

"All stories interest me, and some haunt me until I end up writing them. Certain themes keep coming up: justice, loyalty, violence, death, political and social issues, freedom"

Isabel Allende, Writer

"My father described this tall lady who stands in the middle of the New York harbor, holding high a torch to welcome people seeking freedom in America. I instantly fell in love"

Yakov Smirnoff, Comedian

"The part which American friendship played in helping us to win the freedom we enjoy in this part of Ireland has been gratefully recognized and acknowledged by our people"

Eamon de Valera, Statesman

"The terrorist attacks of September 11th and the courageous actions of our armed forces in Afghanistan and Iraq remind us that friends of tyranny and enemies of freedom still exist"

Carl Levin, Politician

"Beware how you trifle with your marvelous inheritance, this great land of ordered liberty, for if we stumble and fall, freedom and civilization everywhere will go down in ruin"

Henry Cabot Lodge, Politician

"With courage and character, American soldiers continue to put themselves on the line to defend our freedom, and so many have paid the ultimate sacrifice"

Dan Lipinski, Politician

"People should be allowed the freedom to make their own choices. They should be able to buy or not buy porn and be monogamous or promiscuous as they see fit"

Chester Brown, Cartoonist

"They gave us the freedom just to play and have fun"

Anthony Anderson, Actor

"We still believe in the America that is a land of opportunity and a beacon of freedom. We believe in the America that challenges each of us to be better and bigger than ourselves"

Mitt Romney, Politician

"The freedom to make a fortune on the stock exchange has been made to sound more alluring than freedom of speech"

John Mortimer, Novelist

"It's insanity for a party that believes in freedom to allow some Republicans to seize an agenda that is totally alien to the agenda that was established in the election"

Malcolm Wallop, Politician

"Today, our brave military men and women, just as those who have gone before them, stand on alert, securing freedom at home and guarding the innocent abroad"

Conrad Burns, Politician

"New ideas should confront old ideas. We must refer to the example of Europe. People have fought to make Europe what it is today. Freedom is not something that is served up on a plate"

Tahar Ben Jelloun, Poet

"I don't think the only place to fight for freedom is in the halls of Congress"

Malcolm Wallop, Politician

"Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it"

John Quincy Adams, President

"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, Philosopher

"A growing number of young women who have the freedom to decide have decided that career can wait, and the delicious early years of their children's lives can't"

Suzanne Fields

"All respect for the office of the presidency aside, I assumed that the obvious and unadulterated decline of freedom and constitutional sovereignty, not to mention the efforts to curb the power of judicial review, spoke for itself"

Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Judge

"Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting"

Alan Dean Foster, Author

"If we want to talk about freedom, we must mean freedom for others as well as ourselves, and we must mean freedom for everyone inside our frontiers as well as outside"

Wendell Willkie, Lawyer

"I believe firmly that in making ethical decisions, man has the prerogative of true freedom of choice"

Corliss Lamont, Philosopher

"There is a crying need today to have this truth heralded throughout the land that youth especially may appreciate and hold the freedom of the individual as sacred as did our revolutionary fathers"

David O. McKay, Clergyman

"Slavery and freedom cannot exist together"

Ernestine L. Rose

"While it's really hard to do, at the same time, I'm escaping my body, which I really want to do. I'm living someone else's life. I get very intensely into the story, into the interviews and the research. I'm experiencing things along with my subjects. I have a freedom I don't have in my physical life"

Laura Hillenbrand, Author

"As precious as life itself is our heritage of individual freedom, for man's free agency is a God-given gift"

David O. McKay, Clergyman

"There is only one cure for the evils which newly acquired freedom produces, and that cure is freedom"

Thomas B. Macaulay, Historian

"I loved the feeling of freedom in running, the fresh air, the feeling that the only person I'm competing with is me"

Wilma Rudolph, Athlete

"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, Lawyer

"Most importantly, nothing has happened to change my conviction that freedom and the love of liberty remain the essential defining attributes of our national character as a people"

Ibrahim Babangida, Statesman

"The problem of freedom in America is that of maintaining a competition of ideas, and you do not achieve that by silencing one brand of idea"

Max Lerner, Journalist

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

Robert Wyatt, Musician

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

Omar Bongo, Statesman

"The increased presence of Muslims in Italy and in Europe is directly proportional to our loss of freedom"

Oriana Fallaci, Journalist

"We should silence anyone who opposes the right to freedom of speech"

Boyle Roche, Politician

"When we talk of freedom and opportunity for all nations, the mocking paradoxes in our own society become so clear they can no longer be ignored"

Wendell Willkie, Lawyer

"Fortunately, somewhere between chance and mystery lies imagination, the only thing that protects our freedom, despite the fact that people keep trying to reduce it or kill it off altogether"

Luis Bunuel, Director

"If you allow one single germ, one single seed of slavery to remain in the soil of America... that germ will spring up, that noxious weed will thrive, and again stifle the growth, wither the leaves, blast the flowers and poison the fair fruits of freedom"

Ernestine L. Rose

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