Freedom Quotes
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I most sincerely wish that the world in which we live be free from the threat of a nuclear holocaust and from the ruinous arms race. It is my cherished desire that peace be not separated from freedom which is the right of every nation. This I desire and for this I pray.
Lech Walesa
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Discipline is not a restriction but an aid to freedom.
Wayne Thiebaud
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We Americans look at the last 300 years of history, and we basically see a world that's getting better and better. The rule of freedom expands. The economy develops. We have risen to become the world's greatest power.
Walter Russell Mead
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Another revolution! Naples free and all of Italy in insurrection! How wonderful has been the march of the human mind in these last thirty years … so may it be till the last link of the chains of slavery is broken and the banner of freedom waves over the whole earth!
Frances Wright
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I believe we can, and must, strike a balance between our shared American values of religious liberty and freedom from discrimination. My concerns lie with the possible consequences of politically-driven legislation which claims to promote religious liberty but instead rolls back the legal protections held by LGBT Americans.
Gary Johnson
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Given a choice between President Trump with more freedom for Americans and ObamaCare with more government, I chose to stand with President Trump and freedom.
Kevin Brady
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I'm still like a butterfly going from one job to another job. But it's quite lovely - I hope to keep this freedom, to have fun.
Carine Roitfeld
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The very moment you understand that being a Muslim and being American or European are not mutually exclusive, you enrich your society. Promote the universal principles of justice and freedom, and leave the societies elsewhere to find their model of democracy based on their collective psychology and cultural heritage.
Tariq Ramadan
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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?
Mark Akenside
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In June of 1776, Richard Henry Lee, rising before the Continental Congress to move his resolution for American independence, declared: 'The eyes of Europe are fixed upon us; she demands of us a living example of freedom.'
Dwight D. Eisenhower
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Without freedom of speech, there is no modern world, just a barbaric one.
Ai Weiwei
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Freedom is a timeless value. The United Nations Charter calls for encouraging respect for fundamental freedoms. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights mentions freedom more than twenty times. All countries have committed to protecting individual freedoms on paper - but in practice, too many break their pledge.
Ban Ki-moon
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We are not compelled to believe in biological uniformity in order to affirm human freedom and dignity.
E. O. Wilson
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That's free enterprise, friends: freedom to gamble, freedom to lose. And the great thing - the truly democratic thing about it - is that you don't even have to be a player to lose.
Barbara Ehrenreich
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My attitude is govern as if you've run your last race. That's not to say I've run my last race, but govern with a liberation and a freedom; change your mind frame to operate that way.
Rahm Emanuel
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Freedom can occur only through education.
Friedrich Schiller
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I don't like the spirit of socialism – I think freedom is the basis of everything.
Bertrand Russell
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We may have occasion in our lifetime to once again rise up in defense of our freedom, and pay the wages of war.
Barack Obama
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I love music. It's freedom, a way to deal with pent-up frustration.
Ice Cube
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I believe in the freedom of choice in both life and death.
Dasha Zhukova
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The liberties of a people never were, nor ever will be, secure, when the transactions of their rulers may be concealed from them.
Patrick Henry
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Family is such a fundamental part of Islam, and women run the family. I had to force myself not to impose my own definition of political and social freedom on women in Islam, and approach each story objectively.
Lynsey Addario
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We must be willing to pay a price for freedom.
H. L. Mencken
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True independence and freedom can only exist in doing what's right.
Brigham Young