Freedom Quotes · Page 213

I expect each and every USDA employee to uphold their fellow Americans' First Amendment freedoms.

— Sonny Perdue

Obedience is the road to freedom, humility the road to pleasure, unity the road to personality.

— C. S. Lewis

The essence of independence has been to think and act according to standards from within, not without.

— Aleister Crowley

As an artist you have to fight and survive the wilderness to keep your creative freedom. Creativity is very fragile.

— Karel Appel

Ours is the "land of the free"-nobody denies that-nobody challenges it. (Maybe it is because we won't let other people testify.)

— Mark Twain

The time has now come to amend the Constitution to restore freedom of speech for America's people of faith.

— Ralph E. Reed, Jr

The key to the survival of liberty in the modern world is the embrace of multiple identities.

— Timothy Garton Ash

“If you live your life by fear, you will never fully know freedom or breakthrough.”

— J.D. Fisher

“What happens if the cause dies? What happens if people die? Why would I subject myself to that? It’s just easier to…

— Kaya Carvajal

There was a lot of freedom, so bands in those days did not have to play for the public. They played for…

— Dr. John

I am certain that, however great the hardships and the trials which loom ahead, our America will endure and the cause of…

— Cordell Hull

“the Code of Hammurabi of c.1776 BC, which served as a cooperation manual for hundreds of thousands of ancient Babylonians; and the…

— Yuval Noah Harari

Apartheid is a crime against humanity. Israel has deprived millions of Palestinians of their liberty and property. It has perpetuated a system…

— Nelson Mandela

“The nation’s Charters of Freedom were also evacuated from the capital. The attorney general ruled that the Library of Congress had the…

— Garrett M. Graff

“When the Christian Crusaders in the East came into collision with that invincible order of assassins, that order of free spirits par…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“One becomes independent (free) from the moment one realizes the principle that, ‘No living being is able to interfere with another living…

— Dada Bhagwan

“... free speech isn't absolute. We have the freedoms we fight for and we lose those we don't defend.”

— Salman Rushdie

What is our freedom fight about? Is it about the liberation of children or just having sex with them?

— Kate Millett

Anyone fighting for freedom does not want to totally lose their freedom.

— Ai Weiwei

The media bring our wars home, but only rarely have they been able to do it in complete freedom.

— Bruce Jackson

I want children, but at the moment the liberty I have now finally, has a far too high value.

— Gabriela Sabatini

“If you smother him, he’ll go into defense mode and look for an escape route to protect his freedom.”

— Sherry Argov

“It’s a Secret of Adulthood: I give myself limits to give myself freedom.”

— Gretchen Rubin

Man must choose whether to be rich in things or in the freedom to use them.

— Ivan Illich

Our freedom is our sacred cow; no one should touch it! We must be very pious in this holy matter.

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

My message is simple - freedom works a lot better than the authoritarian style of government.

— Ron Paul

Some directors are very free and some directors are very specific. It seemed like doing a play.

— Michael Pitt

America was not founded to improve health care or housing; it was founded for freedom.

— Elliott Abrams

Freedom is an abstract offshoot. You can't describe freedom. How can you describe it? I tried and I failed.

— Neil Young

“Do not ever get involved in clashing with anyone’ – this is the biggest key to go to moksha (ultimate liberation).”

— Dada Bhagwan

“One of the first to reevaluate Genghis Khan was an unlikely candidate: peace advocate Jawaharlal Nehru, the father of Indian independence.”

— Jack Weatherford

Enron and 9/11 marked the end of an era of individual freedom and the beginning of personal responsibility.

— Jeffrey R. Immelt

There’s no freedom quite like the freedom of being constantly underestimated.

— Scott Lynch

Keynes, far from being a wholehearted lover of freedom, viewed with some sympathy the fascist and Communist ‘experiments’ of the 1930s.

— Ralph Raico

Christianity is the companion of liberty in all its conflicts, the cradle of its infancy, and the divine source of its claims.

— Alexis de Tocqueville

Women, justifiably, feel vulnerable at a time so many years after their journey for reproductive freedom started.

— Sarah Weddington

“Legislators and revolutionaries who promise equality and liberty at the same time, are either psychopaths or mountebanks.”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

My weaknesses are women in high heels, freedom under siege, and ebay. (Steele)

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

There are two freedoms; The false, where man is free to do what he likes; The true, where man is free to…

— Charles Kingsley

The Arab Spring is a true phenomenon. Embrace Arab Spring; embrace the aspiration for freedom of the people of Egypt, Syria, and…

— Jamal Khashoggi