Freedom Quotes · Page 305

“I sincerely believe the banking institutions having the issuing power of money, are more dangerous to liberty than standing armies.”

— Thomas Jefferson

The highest pleasure to be got out of freedom, and having nothing to do, is labor.

— Mark Twain

Top-down government programs threaten to limit the freedom and opportunity that made this country great.

— Cathy McMorris Rodgers

Absolute freedom is absolute nonsense! We gain freedom in anything through commitment, discipline, and fixed habit.

— Richard J. Foster

I get freedom out of hip-hop. I get to be a true artist without any shackles or harnesses.

— Ice Cube

Freedom is the open window through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit and human dignity.

— Herbert Hoover

“If self-employment is the opposite of employed-by-other, than a job is outsourcing your freedom (time and talent) to a boss.”

— Richie Norton

'The people are the only sure reliance, for the preservation of our LIBERTY!' Thomas Jefferson

— Andrew Guzaldo

In every country and in every age, the priest has been hostile to liberty. He is always in alliance with the despot,…

— Thomas Jefferson

America is beyond power; it acts as in a dream, as a face of God. Wherever America is, there is freedom, and…

— John Updike

It appears to me (whether rightly or wrongly) that direct arguments against Christianity and theism produce hardly any effect on the public;…

— Charles Darwin

“The United States, the Spanish-American writer George Santayana wrote, ‘has always thought itself in an eminent sense the land of freedom, even…

— Pankaj Mishra

Letting go of fixation is effectively a process of learning to be free, because every time we let go of something, we…

— Traleg Kyabgon Rinpoche

Monopoly and privilege must be destroyed, opportunity afforded, and competition encouraged. This is Liberty's work, and Down with Authority her war-cry.

— Benjamin Tucker

“The leaders of my department understood that to create a fertile laboratory, they had to assemble different kinds of thinkers and then…

— Ed Catmull

I have no choice about whether or not I have Parkinson's. I have nothing but choices about how I react to it.…

— Michael J. Fox

Just as war is the natural consequence of monopoly, peace is the natural consequence of liberty.

— Gustave de Molinari

The history of any nation is not only a succession of events, but also a chain of ideas.

— Pyotr Chaadayev

The freest people I know are those who have the least to hide, defend or protect. Naked is powerful.

— Alan Cohen

The people of Asia were slaves, because they had not learned how to pronounce the word 'no'.

— Winston Churchill

With all this wide and beautiful creation before me, the restless soul longs to enjoy its liberty and rest beyond its bound.

— Teresa of Avila

Today We Have Done A Big Deals With Death Agents: We Give Him All My Tension He Give Me Freedom!

— Mak_786

Our doctrine of equality and liberty and humanity comes from our belief in the brotherhood of man, through the fatherhood of God.

— Calvin Coolidge

Humankind struggles with collective powers for its freedom, the individual struggles with dehumanization for the possession of his soul.

— Saul Bellow

Some experiences can give you a chip on your shoulder, but they also teach you the value of independence and looking out…

— Rick Ross

Sales were lukewarm. Back home there was no freedom, but there were readers. Here there was freedom enough, but readers were missing.

— Sergei Dovlatov

Women are living independently, but we don't yet have the social and economic policies behind us to support that independence.

— Rebecca Traister

“Freedom is about life or death, I would rather die fighting for it than die running away from the oppressor”

— Peter Mutanda

You are all victims of a system that is infested with greed...Now the question is…Can u free yourself mentally?

— Jasari

The real guarantee of freedom is an equilibrium of social forces in conflict, not the triumph of any one force.

— Max Eastman

“Let me remind you that the measure of anyone's freedom is what he can do without.”

— L.M. Montgomery

After order and liberty, economy is one of the highest essentials of a free government.

— Calvin Coolidge

Juneteenth represents a time to embrace freedom and commemorate the tireless efforts of those who advocated for equality.

— Al N. Green

Always be your husband's best friend, make him laugh and give him a little bit of freedom - you can't suffocate him.

— Roselyn Sanchez

We shall pay any price, bear any burden, to assure the survival and the success of liberty.

— John F. Kennedy

After careful deliberation, I voted today to reauthorize the Patriot Act.

— Jim Gerlach

The church's final word is not 'church' but the glory of the Father and the Son in the Spirit of liberty

— Jürgen Moltmann

The cosmos is a gigantic flywheel making 10,000 revolutions per minute. Man is a sick fly taking a dizzy ride on it.

— H. L. Mencken

America was born of protest, revolution, and mistrust of government. Subservient societies neither maintain nor deserve freedom for long.

— Ron Paul

“Education is probably the single greatest factor in determining economic success and subsequent freedom in our society.”

— David Akadjian