Freedom Quotes

• Those who created this country chose freedom. With all of its dangers. And do you know the riskiest part of that choice they made? They actually believed that we could be trusted to make up our own minds in the whirl of differing ideas. That we could be trusted to remain free, even when there were very, very seductive voices - taking advantage of our freedom of speech - who were trying to turn this country into the kind of place where the government could tell you what you can and cannot do.

  

  Nat Hentoff
  • Country
  • Government
  • Trusted

• I'm a freedom of information campaigner, so obviously I support the cause of Wikileaks.

  

  Heather Brooke
  • Freedom
  • WikiLeaks
  • Information campaigner

• But while capitalism may be a convenient scapegoat, it did not cause any of these problems. Indeed, whatever one wishes to call the unruly mixture of freedom and government controls that made up our economic and political system during the last three decades, one cannot call it capitalism.

  

  Yaron Brook
  • Up
  • May
  • Political

• Plays are painful. But the very act of writing is a basic freedom denied some women. Some would call it a privilege. So what's a little pain?

  

  Abi Morgan
  • Writing
  • Women
  • Pain

• My parents waited to have me and my sister - my dad was 43 when my mother had me, and my mom was 38. They purposefully waited until they had had their adventures in life so that we wouldn't represent the end of their freedom.

  

  Christian Borle
  • Life
  • Mother
  • Parents

• Freedom of conscience entails more dangers than authority and despotism.

  

  Michel Foucault
  • Freedom
  • Authority
  • Conscience

• After all, if freedom of speech means anything, it means a willingness to stand and let people say things with which we disagree, and which do weary us considerably.

  

  Zechariah Chafee
  • People
  • Freedom

• New Hampshire is one of the birthplaces of American freedom and independence - a place with a love and a passion for liberty.

  

  Marsha Blackburn
  • American
  • Freedom
  • Passion

• My main fight is for freedom and equality.

  

  Muhammad Ali
  • Freedom
  • Fight
  • Equality

• The arc of American history almost inevitably moves toward freedom. Whether it's Lincoln and the Emancipation Proclamation, the expansion of women's rights or, now, gay rights, I think there is an almost-inevitable march toward greater civil liberties.

  

  James McGreevey
  • Women
  • American
  • History

• As long as I manage investments properly and don't spend recklessly, Tumblr has given my family a strong safety net and given me the freedom to work on whatever I want. And that's exactly what I plan to do.

  

  Marco Arment
  • Work
  • Long
  • Family

• Freedom is the will to be responsible for ourselves. It is to preserve the distance which separates us from other men. To grow more indifferent to hardship, to severity, to privation, and even to life itself.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Life
  • Men
  • Distance

• I have known Senator Rubio for a number of years, and he is an inspiring, courageous, and bold leader who embodies the American dream of freedom and equal opportunity for all.

  

  Kenneth C. Griffin
  • American
  • Dream
  • Opportunity

• So let freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Freedom
  • New Hampshire
  • Hilltops

• We sometimes get so caught up in one or another aspect of the teaching, we forget that if a person hasn't been introduced to Christ, if a person hasn't embraced the risen Lord and the church that's an expression of that experience, what we're saying just sounds like a bunch of rules or negative statements limiting their personal freedom.

  

  Donald Wuerl
  • Up
  • Experience
  • Church

• Thus the public use of reason and freedom is nothing but a dessert, a sumptuous dessert.

  

  Johann Georg Hamann
  • Freedom

• Every generation has to protect every one of their rights, whether that's freedom of the press, freedom of speech, or freedom of faith. You have to remain diligent.

  

  James Lankford
  • Freedom
  • Faith

• In the Caribbean islands, especially in Jamaica, have I found a country similar to South Africa plus the racial freedom I had sought so long.

  

  Peter Abrahams
  • Long
  • Country
  • Freedom

• I feel like my honesty gives people the freedom to talk about things they wouldn't otherwise.

  

  Jane Fonda
  • People
  • Freedom
  • Honesty

• While I believe in all that freedom, I also believe that no one should suffer needlessly.

  

  Neil Peart Rush
  • Freedom
  • Suffer
  • I Believe In

• In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from.

  

  Peter Ustinov
  • America
  • Freedom

• When any society says that I cannot marry a certain person, that society has cut off a segment of my freedom.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Society
  • Freedom
  • Marry

• 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
  • God
  • Country
  • Character

• Assured of your salvation by the unique grace of our Lord Jesus Christ" is the heartbeat of the gospel, joyful liberation from fear of the Final Outcome, a summons to self-acceptance, and freedom for a life of compassion toward others.

  

  Brennan Manning
  • Grace
  • Salvation
  • Lord Jesus Christ

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