Freedom Quotes
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It's in the private places of the heart that freedom is made or unmade by the discipline we create there.
Alan Keyes
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I took up arms for the freedom of my color. It is our own - we will defend it or perish.
Toussaint Louverture
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To the mouse, snow means freedom from want and fear. … To a rough-legged hawk, a thaw means freedom from want and fear.
Aldo Leopold
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The general limits of your freedom are merely these: that you do not trespass upon the equal rights of others.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
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His nation of liberty was founded on the backs of Negro slaves and at the cost of exterminating the aborigines. As far as I can tell, the Yankee’s idea of freedom is his right to carry a pistol with which he may shoot strangers in the street.
Kage Baker
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It is crucial that members of Congress cast votes that are supportive of the values upon which our nation was founded: equality, freedom, and opportunity for all people.
Joe Baca
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All extremes are bad. All that is good and useful, if carried to extremes, may become-and beyond a certain limit is bound to become-bad and injurious.
Vladimir Lenin
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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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The senseless killing of 20 children and their teachers and principal at Sandy Hook Elementary School was not part of God's grand plan. It was a thwarting of God's plan. It was the misuse of human freedom.
Adam Hamilton
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O, say does that star-spangled flag of pride yet wave? O'er the land of the free, and the home for the gay!
Lady Gaga
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I prefer liberty with danger than peace with slavery.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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It's not mainland China that rubs me up the wrong way, it is the dictatorship that rubs me up the wrong way. It's the freedom that we Chinese people are not allowed that rubs me up the wrong way.
Jimmy Lai
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With Christianity, freedom and equality became the two basic concepts of Europe; they are themselves Europe.
Peter Drucker
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Those who today still feel a sense of impotence can do something: they can support Amnesty International. They can help it to stand up for freedom and justice.
Peter Benenson
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May we think of freedom, not as the right to do as we please, but as the opportunity to do what is right.
Peter Marshall
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Secrecy is the freedom tyrants dream of.
Bill Moyers
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Extension brings space, space brings freedom, freedom brings precision. Precision is truth.
Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar
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Lawsuits against reverse mortgage companies, including the nation's largest, Financial Freedom Senior Funding, contend that those firms helped pressure older Americans into bad investments.
Charles Duhigg
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'Why are you so concerned about society?' That is always the question. And my answer is simple: 'Because you are an artist, you have to associate yourself with freedom of expression.'
Ai Weiwei
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Freedom is that faculty that enlarges the usefulness of all other faculties.
Immanuel Kant
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There is no such thing as slow freedom. Freedom is like a birth. Till we are fully free we are slaves.
Mahatma Gandhi
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As precious as life itself is our heritage of individual freedom, for man's free agency is a God-given gift.
David O. McKay
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What I enjoy most about being on stage is that the natural instruments give you a greater freedom with texture. When you use natural instruments they have their own resonance.
John Cale
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Being famous is like a dream come true but it's really difficult because you lose your freedom. I don't want to lose being a kid.
Miley Cyrus