Freedom Quotes
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There have always been those who, though they see tragedy as the outcome of freedom, will nevertheless judge that tragedy is not too high a price to pay.
Kenneth Rexroth
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Chairman Mao once said that political power comes from the barrel of a gun. He was only partly right: power that comes from the barrel of a gun can be effective only for a short time. In the end, peoples love for truth, justice, freedom, and democracy will triumph. No matter what governments do, the human spirit will always prevail.
Dalai Lama
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The United States, for a French citizen, is a friend, an ally, to whom we owe, along with most Europeans, our freedom.
Jean-Pierre Raffarin
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We are in a strange kind of time, where the kind of liberation movements such as anti-apartheid movements and freedom struggles in India need to be reinvented. We need to retool them so that all the gains that our generation has made can be passed on to future generations.
Vandana Shiva
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Freedom is the real source of human happiness and creativity. Irrespective of whether you are a believer or nonbeliever, whether Buddhist, Christian, or Jew, the important thing is to be a good human being.
Dalai Lama
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Freedom is like drink. If you take any at all, you might as well take enough to make you happy for a while.
Finley Peter Dunne
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The Freedom Bell in Berlin is, like the Liberty Bell in Philadelphia, a symbol which reminds us that freedom does not come about of itself. It must be struggled for and then defended anew every day of our lives.'
Angela Merkel
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The mark of a moderate man is freedom from his own ideas. Tolerant like the sky, all-pervading like sunlight, firm like a mountain, supple like a tree in the wind, he has no destination in view and makes use of anything life happens to bring his way.
Lao Tzu
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There is no progress toward ultimate freedom without transformation, and this is the key issue in all lives.
Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar
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Freedom is just another word: It seems to get truer the older I get.
Kris Kristofferson
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Our forbears worked hard this difficult land, and their reward was the freedom and independence of self-sufficiency.
James H. Douglas, Jr.
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The United States did not keep its promise to help us fight for freedom and it was in the same fight that the United States lost 50,000 of its young men.
Nguyen Van Thieu