Freedom Quotes
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One of the unsung freedoms that go with a free press is the freedom not to read it.
Ferdinand Mount
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We congratulate American freedom of speech and all who still believe in it.
Margarita Simonyan
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Our way is straight and clear - the building up of a socialist democracy at home, with freedom and prosperity for all, and the maintenance of world peace and friendship with all nations abroad.
Lal Bahadur Shastri
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It’ll be the ballot or it’ll be the bullet. It’ll be liberty or it’ll be death. And if you’re not ready to pay that price don’t use the word freedom in your vocabulary.
Malcolm X
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But short films are not inferior, just different. I think the short gives a freedom to film-makers. What's appealing is that you don't have as much responsibility for storytelling and plot. They can be more like a portrait, or a poem.
Jane Campion
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President Obama understands that, as a nation founded by those who fled religious persecution, freedom of religion is central to who we are as Americans. Our rights are not given to us by government, they are endowed by our Creator.
Denis McDonough
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There is something akin to freedom in having a lover who has no control over you, except that which he gains by kindness and attachment.
Harriet Ann Jacobs
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No one can enjoy freedom without trembling.
Emil Cioran
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There is no such thing as a little freedom. Either you are all free, or you are not free.
Walter Cronkite
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I'm a big advocate of freedom: freedom of speech, freedom of expression, freedom of thought.
Jimmy Wales
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Freedom begins as we become conscious of it.
Vernon Howard
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There aren't traditions of freedom in a place like Iraq. They're going to have to come to grips with a concept that they hadn't been allowed to conceive before.
Malcolm Wallop
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The raids on Freedom House, the National Democratic Institute and International Republican Institute, the Adenauer Foundation, and other groups helping Egyptians move toward respect for democratic politics and human rights were of a piece with the practices of Hosni Mubarak - only bolder and more repressive.
Elliott Abrams
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No nation which refuses to exercise forbearance and to respect the freedom and rights of others can long remain strong and retain the confidence and respect of other nations. No nation ever loses its dignity or good standing by conciliating its differences and by exercising great patience with, and consideration for, the rights of other nations.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Wanting to be a rock star, I get it. I'm like, 'Oh, my God, dude! The freedom!'
Orlando Bloom
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The important thing is to build up my cardiovascular system, so I have the stamina to do stunts. To me, stepping over the line, taking a chance and succeeding is the ultimate freedom, be it in rock and roll or when executing a really challenging routine.
Wendy O. Williams
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What I'm very upset about is the attempt to dictate to museums what they show, and the statements made by politicians in Washington that have curtailed the freedom of the National Endowment for the Arts. The attention to those issues is deflected by the spin of my supposedly having trivialized the Holocaust.
Hans Haacke
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My mum is an artist and very into creative expression and freedom.
Abbie Cornish
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The cause of Freedom and the cause of Peace are bound together.
Leon Blum
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Liberty is security. Freedom is security.
Jesse Ventura
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We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain - that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom - and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
Abraham Lincoln
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No actor has complete freedom.
Frances McDormand
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A people cannot long retain their freedom, whose government is incapable of protecting them.
Oliver Ellsworth
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I don't believe in total freedom for the artist. Left on his own, free to do anything he likes, the artist ends up doing nothing at all. If there's one thing that's dangerous for an artist, it's precisely this question of total freedom, waiting for inspiration and the rest of it.
Federico Fellini