Freedom Quotes
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I know the freedom that cycling gives you in terms of being able to just jump on and go.
Bradley Wiggins
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The freedom of any society varies proportionately with the volume of its laughter.
Zero Mostel
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I anticipate with pleasing expectations that retreat in which I promise myself to realize, without alloy, the sweet enjoyment of partaking, in the midst of my fellow citizens, the benign influence of good laws under a free government, the ever favorite object of my heart, and the happy reward, as I trust, of our mutual cares, labors, and dangers.
George Washington
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We Americans unite faith and freedom in asserting that our liberties are your gift, God, not that of government.
Meir Soloveichik
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It must be obvious that liberty necessarily means freedom to choose foolishly as well as wisely; freedom to choose evil as well as good; freedom to enjoy the rewards of good judgment, and freedom to suffer the penalties of bad judgment. If this is not true, the word "freedom" has no meaning.
Ben Moreell
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The most persistent threat to freedom, to the rights of Americans, is fear.
George Meany
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Democracy is always an unfinished experiment, testing the capacity of each generation to live freedom nobly.
George Weigel
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I want to work with non-profits that stimulate growth to the community. Whether it is economic growth, intellectual, or freedom.
Gbenga Akinnagbe
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Man is tormented by no greater anxiety than to find someone quickly to whom he can hand over that great gift of freedom with which the ill-fated creature is born.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Every state of welfare, every feeling of satisfaction, is negative in its character; that is to say, it consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of existence.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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I believe in freedom for everyone, not just the black man.
Bob Marley
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When we have something we feel strongly about — and in this case it is civil liberties and freedom and what this nation was founded upon, that we should do something to implement international law — and it is international law now, the right to leave a country freely and return freely — that we should put that issue of principle on the table knowing that the Russians are not going to agree to it.
Henry M. Jackson
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One of the issues that has been an issue in how we deal with net migration up until now is that we haven't been able to have any control over freedom of movement from the European Union. We will have that control in the future once we leave the EU.
Theresa May
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If the Resurrection is resurrection from the dead, all hope and freedom are in spite of death.
Paul Ricoeur
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Nothing is more important for transgender people than to have access to excellent health care in trans-affirmative environments, to have the legal and institutional freedom to pursue their own lives as they wish, and to have their freedom and desire affirmed by the rest of the world. This will happen only when transphobia is overcome at the level of individual attitudes and prejudices and in larger institutions of education, law, health care, and kinship.
Judith Butler
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Those... who find delight in freedom from attachment in the renunciation of clinging, free from the inflow of thoughts, they are like shining lights, having reached final liberation in the world.
Gautama Buddha
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I'm not trying to get power over white. I'm involved in a freedom struggle. Not a power struggle.
Muhammad Ali
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When we got organized as a country and we wrote a fairly radical Constitution with a radical Bill of Rights, giving a radical amount of individual freedom to Americans, it was assumed that the Americans who had that freedom would use it responsibly.
Bill Clinton
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I was sick, anybody can be sick. What I have is a spiritual problem which I am dealing with. Even in the Bible, it was stated that we are not fighting against flesh and blood, but wickedness in high places. I am a freedom fighter, I can never be shot like Lucky Dube, I am invincible, you can’t shoot me.
Majek Fashek
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Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.
Sigmund Freud
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"Lights," I said softly. This had become my favorite word over the past week. In my mind, it had become synonymous with freedom.
Ernest Cline
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. . .nothing is more important than freedom. Nothing is more sacred than freedom. Nothing is greater than freedom. Nothing. . .can be permitted to stand in the way of freedom. Freedom. . .is all that makes men great. It is all men have to live for. Without freedom, what good is life?
Allen Drury
