Freedom Quotes

"The progress of freedom depends more upon the maintenance of peace, the spread of commerce, and the diffusion of education, than upon the labors of cabinets and foreign offices"

Richard Cobden, Businessman

"The road to freedom lies not through mysteries or occult performances, but through the intelligent use of natural forces and laws"

Ernest Holmes, Theologian

"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, Historian

"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

"The two major things that changed the makeup of all professional sports are money generated by television and courts that players went to in order to win their freedom as free agents"

Will McDonough, Writer

"Freedom goes hand-in-hand with mutual respect"

Kay Rala Xanana Gusmao, Politician

"We know from our own history that democratic institutions take decades to mature, and we know from past conflicts that freedom is not free"

Jim DeMint, Politician

"Real change isn't found in some new way to think about yourself, but in freedom from the need to think about yourself at all"

Guy Finley, Writer

"We have to recognize that the freedom of the individual has to be protected not only from the power of the state, but even more so from economic and societal power"

Gustav Heinemann, Politician

"Whether or not we establish freedom rests with ourselves"

Florence E. Allen

"As a result of America's efforts to realize the ideals of equality and freedom, blacks in America are now the freest and richest black people anywhere on the face of the earth including all of the nations that are ruled by blacks"

David Horowitz, Writer

"I have complete freedom, and there's no way to get pigeonholed or bored. What could be better than that?"

Richard Marx, Musician

"Those are serious questions of war and peace, of freedom or tyranny, whether or not there is ever going to be a hope of us instilling some democratic systems in a part of the world that frankly is breeding hate and destruction directed right at us"

Zach Wamp, Politician

"Somebody was asking me the other day - President Bush is now talking about freedom for the Arab world. I say, well, that's great. I was talking about that fifty years ago"

Lakhdar Brahimi, Public Servant

"The freedom that women were supposed to have found in the Sixties largely boiled down to easy contraception and abortion; things to make life easier for men, in fact"

Julie Burchill, Journalist

"Freedom without limits is just a word"

Terry Prachett, Author

"So I think that if I do feel more freedom right now in my career, it's not so much because I have less at stake but more a sense that I've learned more"

Mary Chapin Carpenter, Musician

"Not to get overly psychological about this, but it's probably why I became an actress in the first place: for that kind of freedom and refuge, as well as for the fact that I just love acting so much"

Marisa Tomei, Actress

"As we look forward to freedom, the shining city on the hill and the best days of America lying ahead, it is the men and women in uniform who protect, defend and make us proud to whom we should look and give thanks every night"

Robin Hayes, Politician

"I will always vote on the side of freedom and our right to keep and bear arms"

Mel Martinez, Politician

"Money to me is just the biggest blessing in the world that allows me freedom"

Linda Evans, Actress

"We should favor innovation and freedom over regulation"

George Allen, Politician

"I shall stand for freedom of thought and expression in a place where it has been trampled and penalized"

Jalal Talabani, Politician

"Talk about national interests: When we went in with Operation Iraqi Freedom, some of our allies, Turkey, for example, would not let us through. How much trouble did that cause us, because we were not able to go into Iraq through Turkey?"

Roger Wicker, Politician

"I grew up with too much freedom. You can't define yourself"

Moon Unit Zappa, Musician

"School gives you the freedom to explore different philosophies, religions, aspects of yourself, and subjects"

Leigh Steinberg, Businessman

"I live in America. I have the right to write whatever I want. And it's equaled by another right just as powerful: the right not to read it. Freedom of speech includes the freedom to offend people"

Brad Thor, Novelist

"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

"It's hard to generalize, because they're all different. When I started, I decided to take as much advantage as I could of the freedom offered by the SF field"

Walter Jon Williams, Writer

"When writing isn't going well-then the bad thing about being a writer is that I also have the freedom and flexibility to do something badly, and no one else can fix it for me"

Margaret Haddix, Author

"I most sincerely wish that the world in which we live be free from the threat of a nuclear holocaust and from the ruinous arms race. It is my cherished desire that peace be not separated from freedom which is the right of every nation. This I desire and for this I pray"

Lech Walesa, Activist

"The nice thing about the world that I've been able to inhabit for the last couple of years is that I'm given a lot of freedom. Not all artists really get that"

Brad Paisley, Musician

"Democracy may have arisen in the West as the way of striving for the universal aspiration to dignity and freedom, but it isn't alien to the underlying concepts that infuse religion and moral philosophy everywhere"

Flora Lewis, Journalist

"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

"Those who today still feel a sense of impotence can do something: they can support Amnesty International. They can help it to stand up for freedom and justice"

Peter Benenson, Lawyer

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