Freedom Quotes

"Usually, it is not my habit to address religious issues on the floor. I strongly believe in a person's right to religious freedom, as well as the separation of church and state"

Alcee Hastings, Politician

"A big part of financial freedom is having your heart and mind free from worry about the what-ifs of life"

Suze Orman, Author

"Workers of France, it is for the freedom of the prisoners that you will go to work in Germany! It is for our country that you will go in large numbers!"

Pierre Laval, Politician

"I've never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It's probably because they have forgotten their own"

Margaret Atwood, Novelist

"No one who has lived even for a fleeting moment for something other than life in its conventional sense and has experienced the exaltation that this feeling produces can then renounce his new freedom so easily"

Andre Breton, Poet

"The case for freedom, the case for our constitutional principles the case for our heritage has to be made anew in each generation. The work of freedom is never done"

Anthony Kennedy, Judge

"Money buts many things... The best of which is freedom"

Mary Renault, Novelist

"We have to make sure that we are a force for peace and stability in the world, and that we're prepared to defend freedom and the security of the American people"

Thad Cochran, Politician

"The river flows at its own sweet will, but the flood is bound in the two banks. If it were not thus bound, its freedom would be wasted"

Vinoba Bhave, Educator

"We all have the right of freedom of speech under the First Amendment. We all don't have to agree with one another on our opinions. Everyone in my circle, that I run around with, we all feel the same about God, country, integrity and character"

Luke Scott, Athlete

"Whatever your image is, it's probably not you, but it affords you the freedom to live up to it"

Macy Gray, Musician

"This inevitability of conflict motivates us today and echoes the reminder that freedom is not given away and our national security is not achieved without sacrifice"

Jim Walsh, Politician

"I need this wild life, this freedom"

Zane Grey, Author

"The hope and change the Democrats had in mind was nothing more than a retread of the failed and discredited socialist policies that have been the enemy of freedom for centuries all over the world. I fear America is teetering towards tyranny"

Jim DeMint, Politician

"It is the people who scream the loudest about America and Freedom who see to be the most intolerant for a differing point of view"

Rosanne Cash, Musician

"Bisexuality means I am free and I am as likely to want to love a woman as I am likely to want to love a man, and what about that? Isn't that what freedom implies?"

June Jordan, Writer

"I should like to be remembered as the man who raised a voice against... placing limitations on the freedom of the individual"

Dennis Chavez, Politician

"Those religions that are oppressive to women are also against democracy, human rights, and freedom of expression"

Taslima Nasrin, Writer

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

Thomas B. Macaulay, Historian

"But, based on my friendship with Evie as young mothers, I started going on freedom rides in 1966"

June Jordan, Writer

"As a consequence of the victories we have registered during our first ten years of freedom, we have laid a firm foundation for the new advances we must and will make during the next decade"

Thabo Mbeki, Statesman

"I needed freedom to really express myself. That's really what Justified is about"

Justin Timberlake, Musician

"Our safety at home and the cause of freedom abroad is largely contingent upon our success in Iraq"

Ron Lewis, Politician

"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, Politician

"May we think of freedom, not as the right to do as we please, but as the opportunity to do what is right"

Peter Marshall, Clergyman

"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

"In the kingdom of consumption the citizen is king. A democratic monarchy: equality before consumption, fraternity in consumption, and freedom through consumption"

Raoul Vaneigem, Philosopher

"I believe in the freedom of God's sons and daughters"

Pat Buckley, Clergyman

"I don't do commissions and I like the freedom to create what my heart or mind tells me to"

Richard MacDonald, Sculptor

"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

"It serves notice that President Bush is serious about promoting freedom, because free societies are a lot more peaceable than dictatorships and monarchies"

Tony Snow, Journalist

"Our Founders warned against this. They said don't... that your liberty is only as secure as the people are. Because once they, um, get the ability to vote themselves entitlements from the largesse of the government, liberty is done; freedom is over with. We were warned. We are there"

Sharron Angle, Politician

"Free speech carries with it some freedom to listen"

Warren E. Burger, Judge

"The abortion license has not brought freedom and security to women. Rather, it has ushered in a new era of irresponsibility toward women and children, one that now begins before birth"

Robert Casey, Politician

"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

"There is no such thing as a little freedom. Either you are all free, or you are not free"

Walter Cronkite, Journalist

"It's just so much fun to make up characters, situations, and everything else about a story. I have so much freedom and flexibility to do whatever I want"

Margaret Haddix, Author

"If I can feel freedom then I can create"

Marc Newson, Designer

"What the Idaho Health Freedom Act says is that the citizens of our state won't be subject to another federal mandate or turn over another part of their life to government control"

Butch Otter, Politician

"In America it's live by the sword of freedom of expression and be will to die by it as well"

Vince McMahon, Entertainer

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