Freedom Quotes · Page 262

We show each day that we are prepared to act as an independence state... Not just in exceptional moments.

— Carles Puigdemont

“I am unacquainted with a more deplorable spectacle than that of a people unable either to defend or to maintain its independence.”

— Alexis de Tocqueville

We always wanted to be out there, to be more true to ourselves and a little more free.

— Jennie

While the Governor, and the Mayor, and countless officers of the Commonwealth are at large, the champions of liberty are imprisoned.

— Henry David Thoreau

“ We should all have the freedom to die with majesty in an unworthy life which was subjected to sin and vanity. ”

— Sorin Cerin

Change is not going to happen in a day, a week or a month. Freedom comes at a price. Set your minds…

— Frank Matobo

Truth and, by consequence, liberty, will always be the chief power of honest men.

— Madame de Stael

We have a very foolish notion in Western countries that progress delivers freedom. But progress doesn't necessarily bring moral virtue.

— Richard Flanagan

L'arbre de la liberté croît lorsqu'il est arrosé du sang de toute espèce de tyrans (The tree of liberty grows only when…

— Bertrand Barere

I wouldn't fight for religious freedom because I won't fight for idolatry. Why would I fight for the devil to have as…

— John MacArthur

Rome tolerated every abominable practice, embraced every foul idea in the name of freedom and the rights of the common man. Citizens…

— Francine Rivers

If the students don't want to learn about evolution, they shouldn't be in the course. A biology course that teaches creationism is…

— Joan Wallach Scott

Salvation is the state of emancipation from the endurance of pain and subjection to birth and death, and of the life of…

— Dayananda Saraswati

A cantankerous press, an obstinate press, a ubiquitous press must be suffered by those in authority in order to preserve the even…

— Murray Gurfein

In the literal sense, there has been no relevant evolution since the trek from Africa. But there has been substantial progress towards…

— Noam Chomsky

Opinion polls show that millennials are focused, aspirational and entrepreneurial. The young people I meet want more freedom - to start firms,…

— Liz Truss

Many a time freedom has been rolled back - and always for the same sorry reason: fear.

— Molly Ivins

Liberty cannot be guaranteed by law. Nor by any thing else except the resolution of free citizens to defend their liberties.

— Edward Abbey

I took the liberty in Snowboarding to Nirvana to do a type of parody of what I suppose you would call "New…

— Frederick Lenz

Switching to 'Renewables' generates jobs, skills, purpose, power, wealth, future, resilience, autonomy, freedom, unity: Sustainable Society

— Dave Hampton

If it's freedom you want, come to Texas. No one there tells you what to do and how you have to do…

— Edna Ferber

More liberty begets desire of more; The hunger still increases with the store

— John Dryden

Because you can get free of everything except the space where things have been

— Nicole Krauss

Freedom could be define in the many options available during decision-taking times.

— Terry Mark

There is often in people in whom 'the worst' has happened an almost transcendent freedom, for they have faced 'the worst' and…

— Carol Lynn Pearson

All those things you hear about networks trying to stifle creativity - CW lets creators create and gives us freedom.

— Rachel Bloom

The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance.

— Anonymous

“Liberation was in the very scale of the city: a goldfish bowl one could never grow to fit.”

— Sheridan Hay

To have a choice at all is to be free - even when the choice is between two terrible things.

— Orson Scott Card

I have recognized that the nation has the right, if it so wills, to vindicate her freedom even by actual violence.

— Mahatma Gandhi

You are free... when you are in control of yours lf and do not wish to control others.

— Nikhil Saluja

Work and family are at the center of our lives, the foundation of our dignity as a free people.

— Ronald Reagan

People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.

— Soren Kierkegaard

I believe that being in a position, as a central bank, to influence economic growth does not mean losing independence.

— Elvira Nabiullina

The day that this country ceases to be free for irreligion, it will cease to be free for religion.

— Robert Jackson

To no form of religion is woman indebted for one impulse of freedom, as all alike have taught her inferiority and subjection.

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

I'm for freedom, which I believe is a universal value that every human being is and that is a gift from God.

— Dana Perino

Man's last freedom is his freedom to choose how he will react in any given situation

— Viktor E. Frankl

I have free will, but not of my own choice. I have never freely chosen to have free will. I have to…

— Raymond Smullyan

The Past is the textbook of tyrants; the Future is the Bible of the Free.

— Herman Melville