Freedom Quotes

"Freedom from effort in the present merely means that there has been effort stored up in the past"

"The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask"

Jim Morrison, Musician

"Freedom is not an ideal, it is not even a protection, if it means nothing more than freedom to stagnate, to live without dreams, to have no greater aim than a second car and another television set"

Adlai Stevenson, Politician

"President Bush in his inaugural address talked about bringing freedom to countries that don't have it. He didn't specify how"

Barbara Boxer, Politician

"The success I have achieved in bodybuilding, motion pictures, and business would not have been possible without the generosity of the American people and the freedom here to pursue your dreams"

Arnold Schwarzenegger, Actor

"Freedom is the only law which genius knows"

James Russell Lowell, Poet

"Pleasure and freedom from pain, are the only things desirable as ends"

John Stuart Mill, Philosopher

"Who is more to be pitied, a writer bound and gagged by policemen or one living in perfect freedom who has nothing more to say?"

Kurt Vonnegut, Author

"I try to give the media as many confusing images as I can to retain my freedom. What's real is for my children and the people I live with"

Sting, Musician

"One of the rewards of success is freedom, the ability to do whatever you like"

Sting, Musician

"One of the things that bothers me most is the growing belief in the country that security is more important than freedom. It ain't"

Lyn Nofziger

"Freedom is our most precious commodity and if we are not eternally vigilant, government will take it all away. Individual freedom demands individual responsibility"

Lyn Nofziger

"I think the American people have become more reliant upon government and less reliant upon themselves and that they now tend to put security ahead of freedom, but I think freedom is the most important aspect of our lives"

Lyn Nofziger

"True freedom is where an individual's thoughts and actions are in alignment with that which is true, correct, and of honor - no matter the personal price"

Bryant H. McGill, Author

"Freedom is not a gift nor does it simply exist for us to have, but rather it is a sacred duty, and its blessed yield of hope is born from none other than the blood of the innocent"

Bryant H. McGill, Author

"If we wish to free ourselves from enslavement, we must choose freedom and the responsibility this entails"

Leo Buscaglia, Author

"We are willing enough to praise freedom when she is safely tucked away in the past and cannot be a nuisance. In the present, amidst dangers whose outcome we cannot foresee, we get nervous about her, and admit censorship"

E. M. Forster, Novelist

"Only people who have been allowed to practise freedom can have the grown-up look in their eyes"

E. M. Forster, Novelist

"Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth; when perfect sincerity is expected, perfect freedom must be allowed; nor has anyone who is apt to be angry when he hears the truth any cause to wonder that he does not hear it"

Tacitus, Historian

"My father had retained an emotional affection for the ceremonial of his parental home, without allowing it to influence his intellectual freedom"

Franz Boas, Scientist

"The more decisions that you are forced to make alone, the more you are aware of your freedom to choose"

Thornton Wilder, Writer

"Freedom - to walk free and own no superior"

Walt Whitman, Poet

"The Ego is partly free. partly determined, and reaches fuller freedom by approaching the Individual who is most free: God"

Muhammad Iqbal, Poet

"In our excessive involvement in the affairs of other countries, we are not only living off our assets and denying our own people the proper enjoyment of their resources; we are also denying the world the example of a free society enjoying its freedom to the fullest"

J. William Fulbright, Politician

"It is capitalist America that produced the modern independent woman. Never in history have women had more freedom of choice in regard to dress, behavior, career, and sexual orientation"

Camille Paglia, Author

"Pornography is human imagination in tense theatrical action; its violations are a protest against the violations of our freedom by nature"

Camille Paglia, Author

"The man form is higher than the angel form; of all forms it is the highest. Man is the highest being in creation, because he aspires to freedom"

Paramahansa Yogananda, Leader

"The course of this conflict is not known, yet its outcome is certain. Freedom and fear, justice and cruelty, have always been at war, and we know that God is not neutral between them"

George W. Bush, President

"Freedom itself was attacked this morning by a faceless coward, and freedom will be defended"

George W. Bush, President

"For all who love freedom and peace, the world without Saddam Hussein's regime is a better and safer place"

George W. Bush, President

"Everywhere that freedom stirs, let tyrants fear"

George W. Bush, President

"You can't put democracy and freedom back into a box"

George W. Bush, President

"The wisest use of American strength is to advance freedom"

George W. Bush, President

"The United States of America will never be intimidated by thugs and assassins. The killers will fail, and the Iraqi people will live in freedom"

George W. Bush, President

"The terrorists are fighting freedom with all their cunning and cruelty because freedom is their greatest fear - and they should be afraid, because freedom is on the march"

George W. Bush, President

"I believe that God has planted in every heart the desire to live in freedom"

George W. Bush, President

"My desire to curtail undue freedom of speech extends only to such public areas as restaurants, airports, streets, hotel lobbies, parks, and department stores. Verbal exchanges between consenting adults in private are as of little interest to me as they probably are to them"

Fran Lebowitz, Journalist

"It is crucial that members of Congress cast votes that are supportive of the values upon which our nation was founded: equality, freedom, and opportunity for all people"

Joe Baca, Politician

"I stand for freedom of expression, doing what you believe in, and going after your dreams"

Madonna Ciccone, Entertainer

"In all the great periods of the drama perfect freedom of choice and subject, perfect freedom of individual treatment, and an audience eager to give itself to sympathetic listening, even if instruction be involved, have brought the great results"

George P. Baker

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