Freedom Quotes
-
Genghis Khan decreed religious tolerance for all of his conquered peoples. So I think he definitely would approve of our constitutional protections of freedom of religion. I think he would also approve of the way the U.S. has been able to attract talented people from all over the world.
-
A lack of moral clarity is also the tragedy that has befallen efforts to advance peace and security in the world. Promoting peace and security is fundamentally connected to promoting freedom and democracy.
-
Black people are fed up with the dillydallying, pussyfooting, compromising approach that we’ve been using toward getting our freedom. We want freedom now, but we’re not going to get it saying 'We Shall Overcome.' We’ve got to fight until we overcome.
-
That coarseness and strength combined with acuteness and inquisitiveness; that practical, inventive turn of mind, quick to find expedients; that masterful grasp of material things, lacking in the artistic but powerful to effect great ends; that restless, nervous energy; that dominant individualism, working for good and evil, and withal that buoyancy and exuberance which comes with freedom - these are the traits of the frontier.
-
Freedom is a lonely battle, but if the United States doesn't lead it - sometimes imperfectly, but mostly with honor - who will?
-
It's exciting to originate Jessica Jones. There's obviously more freedom in that versus playing a well known character.
-
If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom, and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too.
-
It's my only freedom, music, and I'm not going to give it up to anyone else.
-
Can art, alas! or genius guide the headWhere truth and freedom from the heart are fled?Can lesser wheels repeat their native stroke,When the prime function of the soul is broke?
-
If investors are willing to fund the U.S. deficit, why wouldn't investors want to fund the press freedom deficit?
-
We wish to work in total freedom.
-
Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.
-
How could the USA champion individual freedom in the world generally while denying it to an important minority in its own country.
-
The Hungarians, by nature, are not extreme. They become more extreme only when they are forced to fight for their freedom, as was in the case in the uprising against the communists in 1956 or the revolution against the Austrian Empire. They will not turn extreme in the name of despotism.
-
My parents came to the United States in the early years of this century as part of a wave of Russian Jewish immigrants seeking freedom and opportunity in the New World.
-
We who officially value freedom of speech above life itself seem to have nothing to talk about but the weather.
-
Realize that the Lord is here now, and the freedom you receive is immediate.
-
Freedom is never really won. You earn it and win it in every generation. That is what we have not taught young people, or older ones for that matter. You do not finally win a state of freedom that is protected forever. It doesn't work that way.
-
Every revolution, bloody or not, has two phases. The first phase is defined by the struggle for freedom, the second by the struggle for power and revenge on the votaries of the ancien regime.
-
Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either lead into freedom or constitute a proof for its existence.
-
Freedom of speech isn't something somebody else gives you. That's something you give to yourself.
-
We don't believe that winning elections and winning any amount of votes will win freedom in Ireland. At the end of the day, it will be the cutting edge of the IRA which will bring freedom.
-
Art, freedom and creativity will change society faster than politics.
-
I like having the freedom to dress as I desire.
