Freedom Quotes · Page 272

Something in you wants to go beyond, wants to be free from this endless round of perception. Enlightenment is that.

— Frederick Lenz

Don't spend your entire life building a ship, without ever tasting the freedom of the sea.

— Alexander Den Heijer

The American Revolution was a vindication of liberties inherited and possessed. It was a conservative revolution.

— William E. Gladstone

The moment you accept that there's a guidance system supporting you, then you experience a new sense of freedom and peace.

— Gabrielle Bernstein

The most persistent threat to freedom, to the rights of Americans, is fear.

— George Meany

Freedom is one of the principal goals of human endeavor, but the best use man can make of his freedom is to…

— Edwin Conklin

“Others made me a slave, but I must squeeze the slave out of myself, drop by drop.”

— Anton Chekhov

My people are scared of the air around them, they always have an excuse not to fight for freedom,

— Fela Kuti

“It was the power of Business, not the deliberations of statesman, that shaped the destinies of nations. The Foreign Ministers of the…

— Eric Ambler

The quickest and surest way to production, prosperity, and economic growth is through private enterprise. The best way for governments to encourage…

— Henry Hazlitt

“Benjamin Franklin, that those who trade some of their liberty for a little temporary security deserve neither and will lose both. The…

— Brad Thor

Let me not pray to be sheltered from dangers but to be fearless in facing them. Let me not beg for the…

— Rabindranath Tagore

Freedom is the natural condition of the human race, in which the Almighty intended men to live. Those who fight the purpose…

— Abraham Lincoln

“i have been told many times by family, friends, colleagues and strangers that I, a black African Muslim lesbian, am not included…

— Diriye Osman

In the drag community it's mostly women in the audience, even for burlesque. I think people look at strippping as a male…

— Violet Chachki

People, Reacher was certain about. Dogs were different. People had freedom of choice. If a man or a woman ran snarling toward…

— Lee Child

We are here to work side-by-side with this "black" man in trying to bring liberation to all our people!

— Fannie Lou Hamer

The businessmen have corrupted liberty by trying to propose it as a material quality.

— Philip Wylie

“To attain true inner freedom, you must be able to objectively watch your problems instead of being lost in them.”

— Michael A. Singer

I intend no modification of my oft-expressed wish that all men everywhere could be free.

— Abraham Lincoln

No successful political transition can take place without leaders and movements that demand and press for freedom.

— Fareed Zakaria

“Harnessing winter's energy, I drift, my free, wild woman's soul, alight with day's deep desires.”

— Susan L. Marshall

You cannot legislate the poor into freedom by legislating the wealthy out of freedom.

— Adrian Rogers

Air power will not defeat ISIS. It has not been able to deny ISIS freedom of maneuver and the ability to attack…

— Jack Keane

There are no accusations with writing, no judgment, no shame, only freedom.

— Jessica Sorensen

The people of America need personal responsibility and freedom, not dependency on the government.

— George Allen

Liberty is not the power of doing what we like, but the right to do what we ought.

— Lord Acton

We who deny freedom to other deserve it not for our self and under a just God can not retain it long.

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“With every drop of my blood I hate and execrate every form of tyranny, every form of slavery. I hate dictation. I…

— Robert G. Ingersoll

“True liberty comes with the abandonment of self in our worshiping God, freeing us to worship in His way, not ours.”

— Ray Hughes

“Bill of Rights: (n.) official tally of how much our rights cost to keep.”

— Sol Luckman

You think than you are free to do whatever, but in fact you are a slave of doing whatever.

— Mohammad MUSTAFA

“In any society freedom of thought will probably be of direct significance only for a small minority.”

— Friedrich Hayek

The very foundation of the living of life lies in the desire of every man to give service to fulfill the needs…

— Walter Russell

We do not move forward by curtailing people's liberty because we are afraid of what they may do or say.

— Eleanor Roosevelt

In TV writing, I felt like Gulliver being tied down by the Lilliputians. There's so much more freedom in fiction writing.

— Maria Semple

Creativity requires the freedom to consider unthinkable alternatives, to doubt the worth of cherished practices.

— John W. Gardner

Religious liberty should mean religious liberty for everyone, employees as well.

— Neera Tanden

Divorce in a young-adult novel means what being orphaned meant in a fairy tale: vulnerability, danger, unwanted independence.

— Caitlin Flanagan

“With liberation comes strength, with liberation comes clarity, with liberation comes insight.”

— Abhijit Naskar