Freedom Quotes

"Freedom is always the freedom of dissenters"

"More than anything else, let me be clear - we need to be willing to fight for freedom, and free markets, and traditional moral values. That's what the American people want to see this movement and this party return to"

Mike Pence, Politician

"Freedom is coming to mean little more than the right to ask permission"

Joseph Sobran, Activist

"I don't like definitions, but if there is a definition of freedom, it would be when you have control over your reality to transform it, to change it, rather than having it imposed upon you. You can't really ask for more than"

Mark Knopfler, Musician

"I believe that being an actress or being involved in a movie has to be a life experience, otherwise why go for it? I have to change me, and I have to learn things, and I have to push me and my limits. By acting, I find a freedom inside of a prison in a way"

Juliette Binoche, Actress

"When we say that the persistence of competition is ensured by fate, we mean that individual freedom is so guaranteed. The one thing to which fate binds us is liberty"

John Bates Clark, Economist

"America must be the moral leader. It is not enough to have power. Power must be used to protect freedom and give all people hope for the opportunity to see the fruit of their own labor"

Jesse Helms, Politician

"I do have the freedom to choose what I want to do and I'll continue to do that"

Moira Kelly, Actress

"I'm the age now that Rock was when he picked me up, so I can understand how he felt - how his fame limited his freedom. You get kinder as you go along"

Armistead Maupin, Novelist

"Jerry often says that Slam Bradley was really the forerunner of Superman, because we turned it out with no restrictions, complete freedom to do what we wanted; the only problem was that we had a deadline"

Joe Shuster, Artist

"A couple of seats at a good picture house cost comparatively little but give a generous return in the shape of freshened minds and freedom from the worries that even the best regulated homes cannot always avoid"

Ivor Novello, Musician

"There must be freedom for all to live, to think, to worship, no book, no avenue must be closed"

James Larkin, Activist

"I want our government to encourage and protect freedom as well as our traditions of faith and family"

Jesse Helms, Politician

"For the saddest epitaph which can be carved in memory of a vanished freedom is that it was lost because its possessors failed to stretch forth a saving hand while there was still time"

George Sutherland, Judge

"To declaim freedom verses seems like a poem within a poem; freedom requires guns, it requires arms, but no feet"

Franz Grillparzer, Poet

"When public access to voting is impaired or when public confidence in voting is diluted, democracy suffers and our freedom is less secure"

DeForest Soaries, Politician

"The Election Assistance Commission represents a major, unprecedented commitment from the federal government to sustained freedom and vibrant democracy. I am humbled by the prospect of being one its charter members"

DeForest Soaries, Politician

"That the Op-Ed page is very important in readers' and the nation's perception of the Times, the perception of its editorial positions, and of its implicit editorial positions as expressed by the publisher's choice of people who are given the freedom to write opinion columns"

Daniel Okrent, Editor

"Freedom and justice cannot be parceled out in pieces to suit political convenience. I don't believe you can stand for freedom for one group of people and deny it to others"

Coretta Scott King, Activist

"One of the unsung freedoms that go with a free press is the freedom not to read it"

Ferdinand Mount, Writer

"We don't appreciate what we have until it's gone. Freedom is like that. It's like air. When you have it, you don't notice it"

Boris Yeltsin, President

"The freedom to convert is fundamental to freedom of religion"

Bob Inglis, Politician

"I don't think that artists of any kind would or could sacrifice their artistic freedom by being more responsible with their influence on people, especially young people"

Christy Turlington, Model

"It's okay to talk about birth, okay - then menstruation. I first started my advocacy for women's health in the field of reproductive freedom, and the next stage would be bringing menopause out of the closet"

Cybill Shepherd, Actress

"Time misspent in youth is sometimes all the freedom one ever has"

Anita Brookner, Historian

"Freedom is a lonely battle, but if the United States doesn't lead it - sometimes imperfectly, but mostly with honor - who will?"

Cal Thomas, Journalist

"It's great to have the freedom to enjoy your work and not feel like you're leaving your other life behind"

Anna Paquin, Actress

"It is true you cannot eat freedom and you cannot power machinery with democracy. But then neither can political prisoners turn on the light in the cells of a dictatorship"

Corazon Aquino, President

"This freedom of political discussion on the highest level is something which Western civilization has in common with that of classical antiquity, but with no other"

Christopher Dawson, Writer

"In many ways, my attachment to human freedom was completely compatible with my right to live freely as a homosexual"

Andrew Sullivan, Journalist

"You cannot expect so much freedom in a land of 1.3 billion people"

Alex Chiu, Businessman

"You have spent many lives and much treasure to bring freedom to many lands that were reluctant to receive it. And here you have a people who won it by themselves and need only the help to preserve it"

Corazon Aquino, President

"If it's total freedom, I guess the ultimate thing you can go into is total silence between the audience and performer, with the performer projecting something he doesn't even have to play"

Alice Cooper, Musician

"Thus, the struggle for peace includes the struggle for freedom and justice for the masses of all countries"

Arthur Henderson, Politician

"Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one"

A. J. Liebling, Journalist

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

Robert Kennedy, Politician

"True independence and freedom can only exist in doing what's right"

Brigham Young, Leader

"Bondage is of the mind; freedom too is of the mind. If you say 'I am a free soul. I am a son of God who can bind me' free you shall be"

Ramakrishna, Leader

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

Robert Kennedy, Politician

"This is the first time in 10 years I don't know what I'm doing next, and I'm rather enjoying it. Soon I'll be climbing the walls no doubt, but right now, it's not clear, I'm just enjoying the freedom"

Sam Mendes, Director

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