Freedom Quotes

"Young players need freedom of expression to develop as creative players... they should be encouraged to try skills without fear of failure"

Arsene Wenger, Coach

"In The Police, in a trio situation - which I've come back to now - it's just so wide open that it does actually provide this arena where you can play with a certain freedom"

Andy Summers, Musician

"When we are unwilling to draw clear moral lines between free societies and fear societies, when we are unwilling to call the former good and the latter evil, we will not be able to advance the cause of peace because peace cannot be disconnected from freedom"

Natan Sharansky, Writer

"An almost hysterical antagonism toward the gold standard is one issue which unites statists of all persuasions. They seem to sense... that gold and economic freedom are inseparable"

Alan Greenspan, Economist

"Freedom from the desire for an answer is essential to the understanding of a problem"

Jiddu Krishnamurti, Philosopher

"Watching President Obama apologize last week for America's arrogance - before a French audience that owes its freedom to the sacrifices of Americans - helped convince me that he has a deep-seated antipathy toward American values and traditions"

Rick Santorum, Politician

"Until you have lost your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was or what freedom really is"

Margaret Mitchell, Novelist

"Victorious living does not mean freedom from temptation, nor does it mean freedom from mistakes"

E. Stanley Jones, Theologian

"Freedom from care and anxiety of mind is a blessing, which I apprehend such people enjoy in higher perfection than most others, and is of the utmost consequence"

William Falconer, Poet

"If this liberal potential is properly channeled, we may expect the area of freedom of the United States to increase. The problem is to spend up our rate of social invention in the service of the welfare of all the people"

Henry A. Wallace, Vice President

"We must also win really sufficient and, above all, practical, guarantees for the freedom of the seas and for the further fulfilment of our economic and political tasks throughout the world"

Bernhard von Bulow, Statesman

"The link between my experience as an entrepreneur and that of a politician is all in one word: freedom"

Silvio Berlusconi, Statesman

"Bush will keep up that policy that gives the United State the role of promoting freedom in the world"

Silvio Berlusconi, Statesman

"If the events of September 11, 2001, have proven anything, it's that the terrorists can attack us, but they can't take away what makes us American - our freedom, our liberty, our civil rights. No, only Attorney General John Ashcroft can do that"

Jon Stewart, Entertainer

"I keep telling myself to calm down, to take less of an interest in things and not to get so excited, but I still care a lot about liberty, freedom of speech and expression, and fairness in journalism"

Kate Adie, Journalist

"But in the first Gulf war the United Kingdom was not under any threat from Iraq, and is still less so in the second one. Then there is no justification for obstructing freedom of information, particularly as nations have a right to know what their soldiers are being used for"

Kate Adie, Journalist

"War - hard apprenticeship of freedom"

Edward Everett Hale, Clergyman

"I would rather die in freedom on my way back home than starve to death here"

Morning Star, Statesman

"I was inspired to write this book by those who are sceptical of the power of freedom to change the world"

Natan Sharansky, Writer

"I am optimistic that peace can be achieved in the region because I believe that every society on earth can be free and that if freedom comes to the Middle East, there can be peace"

Natan Sharansky, Writer

"There's also a sense of freedom. I was so obsessed by this problem that I was thinking about if all the time - when I woke up in the morning, when I went to sleep at night, and that went on for eight years"

Andrew Wiles, Mathematician

"Freedom of love is freedom to say yes to many lovers"

Brigitte Boisselier, Celebrity

"The three main sources of scepticism are first, that not every people desires freedom; second, that democracy in certain parts of the world would be dangerous; and third, that there is little the world's democracies can do to advance freedom outside their countries"

Natan Sharansky, Writer

"He hath freedom whoso beareth clean and constant heart within"

Quintus Ennius, Poet

"If you are any competent musician, if you have creative ideas, ideas of songs, of arrangements, in a band like the Stones, where these 2 people do all the things, there is no freedom"

Bill Wyman, Musician

"But if you can create an honorable livelihood, where you take your skills and use them and you earn a living from it, it gives you a sense of freedom and allows you to balance your life the way you want"

Anita Roddick, Businessman

"Charles was very intent to use his years as Prince of Wales to make his mark while he still had freedom of maneuver that he wouldn't have as King. The first subject he really went for was architecture. It made an impact"

Anthony Holden, Journalist

"By helping readers understand these mechanics, I hope they will appreciate why freedom is for everyone, why it is essential for our security and why the free world plays a critically important role in advancing democracy around the globe"

Natan Sharansky, Writer

"Believe me, the drug of freedom is universally potent"

Natan Sharansky, Writer

"I would say that the war correspondent gets more drinks, more girls, better pay, and greater freedom than the soldier, but at this stage of the game, having the freedom to choose his spot and being allowed to be a coward and not be executed for it is his torture"

Robert Capa, Photographer

"Real freedom lies in wildness, not in civilization"

Charles Lindbergh, Aviator

"It requires greater courage to preserve inner freedom, to move on in one's inward journey into new realms, than to stand defiantly for outer freedom. It is often easier to play the martyr, as it is to be rash in battle"

Rollo May, Psychologist

"Human freedom involves our capacity to pause, to choose the one response toward which we wish to throw our weight"

Rollo May, Psychologist

"Freedom is man's capacity to take a hand in his own development. It is our capacity to mold ourselves"

Rollo May, Psychologist

"But it wasn't until I graduated from Texas A & M University and joined the United States Air Force, flying C-130's all around the globe, that I truly appreciated the blessings of freedom"

Rick Perry, Politician

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