Freedom Quotes

"Freedom is the sure possession of those alone who have the courage to defend it"

"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

"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

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

Robert Wyatt, Musician

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

Oriana Fallaci, Journalist

"There are days when solitude is a heady wine that intoxicates you with freedom, others when it is a bitter tonic, and still others when it is a poison that makes you beat your head against the wall"

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette, Novelist

"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

"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

"One of the best kept secrets in America is that people are aching to make a commitment, if they only had the freedom and environment in which to do so"

John Naisbitt, Businessman

"No! on Human Rights and Freedom, on a subject that is as self-evident as that two and two make four, there is no need of any written authority"

Ernestine L. Rose

"Heresy is another word for freedom of thought"

Graham Greene, Playwright

"I am known for a life spent in the struggle for freedom, and freedom includes the freedom of religion"

Oriana Fallaci, Journalist

"All Americans value the freedom of speech and the freedom of the press, and I believe this is essential for our continued way of life. But with this freedom comes responsibility. That responsibility has been abdicated here by some in the media and some in the government"

Steven Hatfill, Scientist

"There is a bright spot or two for the Spaniards. French toast has become freedom toast on the Air Force One breakfast menu, but the Spanish omelet is still a Spanish omelet"

Suzanne Fields

"We've got to understand that the whole nature of the way American democracy guards its freedom has been changed"

John Ashcroft, Public Servant

"I lost in the second round of the French Open and had 10 days off. I went to the Hard Rock Cafe. It was exciting to be away from my parents, to stay in a hotel. Hotels at 17 meant freedom"

Boris Becker, Athlete

"Individuality is the aim of political liberty. By leaving the citizen as much freedom of action and of being as comports with order and the rights of others, the institutions render him truly a freeman. He is left to pursue his means of happiness in his own manner"

James F. Cooper, Novelist

"You have to struggle a bit, hustle a little, and be willing to go bankrupt. Once you're willing to do that, everything opens up and you get the freedom. My joke is that next year, I'll make the first film that costs zero dollars"

Nick Nolte, Actor

"Today's Constitution is a realistic document of freedom only because of several corrective amendments. Those amendments speak to a sense of decency and fairness that I and other Blacks cherish"

Thurgood Marshall, Judge

"Fashion is an imposition, a reign on freedom"

Golda Meir, Leader

"The American flag is the symbol of our freedom, national pride and history"

Mike Fitzpatrick, Politician

"We have convinced over one billion members of the Islamic faith that we are prejudiced against their religion, that we would deny them freedom of religion, that we want suppress their culture and invade their governments"

Theodore C. Sorensen, Lawyer

"There are more people living in freedom today than at any other time in the history of the human race"

Mike Rounds, Politician

"Ultimately, freedom and democracy are stronger than fear and tyranny"

Gijs de Vries, Politician

"As Taiwan's friend and ally, I believe it is important for the United States to monitor the situation in the Taiwan Strait very carefully to help ensure Taiwan is not forced into a position which would endanger its freedom or its democracy"

Jim Costa, Politician

"But please know, whether you believe campaign contributions are speech or property, that I learned to love very dearly the right of free expression when I lived without that freedom for a while a long time ago"

John McCain, Politician

"I remain optimistic. What we've seen in Europe and the rest of the world is that freedom has a much stronger attraction than radical fundamentalism"

Gijs de Vries, Politician

"At one level you're condemned to the voice you have. But within those confines, you have a certain amount of freedom to range among your possible voices"

David Guterson, Author

"There should be a sympathy with freedom, a desire to give it scope, founded not upon visionary ideas, but upon the long experience of many generations within the shores of this happy isle, that in freedom you lay the firmest foundations both of loyalty and order"

William E. Gladstone, Leader

"I come bearing an olive branch in one hand, and the freedom fighter's gun in the other. Do not let the olive branch fall from my hand"

Yasser Arafat, Leader

"The necessity to conceptualise has to come very early on, and defining a vector of development for that film also at the beginning of the process will allow you much more freedom as you go along"

Walter Salles, Director

"The films that I've done before were original stories most of the time, I did two adaptations before this, but they were mostly original stories where I had complete freedom to evolve in the direction I wanted"

Walter Salles, Director

"Trade creates jobs and lifts people out of poverty. And when that happens, societies stabilize and grow. And there is nothing like a stable society to fight terrorism and strengthen democracy, freedom and rule of law"

Dennis Hastert, Politician

"There is something akin to freedom in having a lover who has no control over you, except that which he gains by kindness and attachment"

Harriet Ann Jacobs, Writer

"The man or country that fights priestcraft and priests is to my mind striking deeper for freedom than can be struck anywhere"

George Meredith, Novelist

"I do not think we should be trying to save our freedom by killing the safeguards that keep our liberties"

Eliot Engel, Politician

"As one gets older one sees many more paths that could be taken. Artists sense within their own work that kind of swelling of possibilities, which may seem a freedom or a confusion"

Jasper Johns, Artist

"Strong, generous, and confident, she has nobly served mankind. Beware how you trifle with your marvellous 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

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