Freedom Quotes · Page 237

“it is impossible for a free people to govern a dependent people despotically without endangering its own freedom.”

— John Fiske

The very freedom and expressiveness we find missing in life we find present in art.

— Nicholas Wolterstorff

Excess of liberty, whether it lies in state or individuals, seems only to pass into excess of slavery.

— Plato

“How is it called freedom if it is limited by those with a history of oppressing you?”

— Jeffrey G. Duarte

The time has come to give Americans the freedom to purchase health insurance across state lines.

— Donald Trump

Divine life is basically the inner freedom to choose the right and the good spontaneously.

— Thomas Keating

Let the dogs of the empire bark, that's their job; ours is to battle to achieve the true liberation of our people.

— Hugo Chavez

“...suffering and freedom have their limits...those limits are very near together.”

— Leo Tolstoy

“The soul should not be surprised at feeling itself unable to offer up to God such petitions as it had formally made…

— Madame Guyon

We live in oppressive times. We have, as a nation, become our own thought police; but instead of calling the process by…

— David Mamet

We forget that, although freedom of speech constitutes an important victory in the battle against old restraints, modern man is in a…

— Erich Fromm

I don't live to work, I work to live my life. I'm not a slave for money! I respect anyone that can…

— Anonymous

Actually we've had a black bourgeoisie or the makings of a black bourgeoisie for many more decades.In a sense the quest for…

— Angela Davis

For those who know the value of and exquisite taste of solitary freedom (for one is only free when alone), the act…

— Isabelle Eberhardt

Fundamentally, I do agree, certainly, people must be allowed to express their own opinions freely. Freedom is part of the essential rights…

— Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

The security of the Nation is not at the ramparts alone, Security also lies in the value of our free institutions. A…

— Murray Gurfein

I personally call the type of government which can be removed without violence 'democracy,' and the other, 'tyranny.'.

— Karl Popper

A man is either free or he is not. There cannot be any apprenticeship for freedom.

— Amiri Baraka

“America was the land of liberty--and liberty had come to mean the right to disregard the rights of others.”

— Milo Hastings

“Of all the religions in the world, perhaps the religion of liberty is the only faith capable of purity.”

— Tiffany Madison

“Nonsense,” Bridget said. “The secret to happiness is freedom—and the secret to freedom is courage.”

— Liz Rosenberg

You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on having both at once.

— Robert A. Heinlein

Free enterprise means that the more enterprising you are, the freer you are.

— Mark Victor Hansen

“True freedom isn’t limited by partiality or favoritism for one over the other. It’s freedom for all or it isn’t freedom at…

— D.M. Anthony

True politeness is perfect ease and freedom. It simply consists in treating others just as you love to be treated yourself.

— Lord Chesterfield

I'm totally committed to the cause of individuality. That's the only thing I stand by: independence.

— Juliana Hatfield

If you live your life burning for the highest possibility, in that burning itself, there is liberation.

— Jaggi Vasudev

“This is just one ! ?...Of millions ..support you ...Freedom is our emblem”

— Hesham Nebr

When thirsty grief in wine we steep, When healths and draughts go free, Fishes, that tipple in the deep, Know no such…

— Richard Lovelace

Hero-worship is strongest where there is least regard for human freedom.

— Herbert Spencer

“Your bike is discovery; your bike is freedom. It doesn't matter where you are, when you're on the saddle, you're taken away.”

— Doug Donaldson

Freedom itself was attacked this morning by a faceless coward, and freedom will be defended.

— George W. Bush

I had crossed the line. I was free; but there was no one to welcome me to the land of freedom. I…

— Harriet Tubman

When the Nazis came for the communists, I remained silent; I was not a communist.

— Martin Niemoller

There is nothing that we are allowed to do under USA Freedom Act that we could not do before.

— Marco Rubio

“Free Will was a vacuum, a negative space. It was the absence of coercion, the absence of compulsion, the absence of agony.…

— Ian Tregillis

Listen to the desires of your children. Encourage them and then give them the autonomy to make their own decision.

— Denis Waitley

Willing sets you free: that is the true doctrine of will and freedom--thus Zarathustra instructs you.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

I will follow anyone... and invite everyone... too unite and defend the freedom of expression.

— Widad Akrawi

Frosting Freedom Is just frosting On somebody else's Cake-- And so must be Till we Learn how to Bake.

— Langston Hughes