Freedom Quotes
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Gentlemen, do you know what is the finest speech that I ever in my life heard or read? It is the address of Garibaldi to his Roman soldiers, when he told them: "Soldier, what I have to offer you is fatigue, danger, struggle and death; the chill of the cold night in the free air, and heat under the burning sun; no lodgings, no munitions, no provisions, but forced marches, dangerous watchposts and the continual struggle with the bayonet against batteries;- - those who love freedom and their country may follow me." That is the most glorious speech I ever heard in my life.
Lajos Kossuth
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I love the freedom you feel on horseback, and enjoy the discipline of competition.
Jessica Springsteen
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Unnecessary possessions are unnecessary burdens. If you have them, you have to take care of them! There is great freedom in simplicity of living. It is those who have enough but not too much who are the happiest.
Peace Pilgrim
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Freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought.
Pope John Paul II
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I just like my independence and freedom to come and go and not have an entourage.
Fred Eychaner
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Nothing that has value, real value, has no cost. Not freedom, not food, not shelter, not healthcare.
Dean Kamen
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We have proven that conservative principles work: less taxes, less government, and more freedom.
Carlos Lopez-Cantera
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Socialism and freedom are not compatible, regardless of repeated convincings.
Alija Izetbegovic
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Let us rise in the moral power of womanhood; and give utterance to the voice of outraged mercy, and insulted justice, and eternal truth, and mighty love and holy freedom.
Maria Weston Chapman
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The key to freedom is accepting my own autonomy as an individual, and respecting the autonomy of other individuals, with all of what that means - whatever that means.
Benjamin Ward Richardson
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Our society is illuminated by the spiritual insights of the Hebrew prophets. America and Israel have a common love of human freedom, and they have a common faith in a democratic way of life.
Lyndon B. Johnson
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There are only two roads, victory for the working class, freedom, or victory for the fascists which means tyranny. Both combatants know what's in store for the loser.
Buenaventura Durruti
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You, the foreign media, have been the companion of my people in its long and painful journey to freedom.
Corazon Aquino
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No, my work does not reflect my sexual preferences, it reflects the fact that I feel total freedom as an artist.
Patti Smith