Freedom Quotes · Page 184

If you do not force political freedom, economic freedom will be stymied sooner or later.

— Milton Friedman

Marxism has not only failed to promote human freedom, it has failed to produce food.

— John Dos Passos

There is a huge amount of freedom that comes to you when you take nothing personally.

— Anonymous

No Christian with half a brain would say 'we support religious freedom.'

— John MacArthur

Freedom is not a reaction; freedom is not a choice. . Freedom is found in the choiceless awareness of our daily existence…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

“Freedom brings the privilege to make decisions and the need to learn once again how to rightly make them.”

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

What is Freedom? ye can tell That which slavery is, too well For its very name has grown To an echo of…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

“The key to happiness is freedom. The key to freedom is courage. The key to courage is love.”

— Kate Trafford

That sort of fundamentalism which treats possession of private property not as a desirable economic and personal asset but as a condition…

— Neil Kinnock

While we are contending for our own liberty, we should be very cautious not to violate the conscience of others, ever considering…

— George Washington

When I'm doing interiors - especially the ones where you really have full creative freedom - it's about creating an environment for…

— Lenny Kravitz

My freedom will be so much the greater and more meaningful the more narrowly I limit my field of action and the…

— Igor Stravinsky

The fact that we represented freedom, you know. We talked about that in the songs and I think that the parents, like…

— Robby Krieger

Resolved, That we especially protest against this present attempt to force all the people to follow the religious dictates of a part…

— Ellen Battelle Dietrick

I was still in parliament when the Labour government passed the Freedom of Information Act. As the then shadow home secretary I…

— Ann Widdecombe

“Don't be so ignorant as to think that what we're exercising is freedom if we've bled it of morals, purged it of…

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

Forgiveness is attention without judgment. It heals the one who forgives and the one who is forgiven.

— Deepak Chopra

Free societies are societies in which the right of dissent is protected.

— Natan Sharansky

“Pain was no longer a mystery to him, and a man familiar with pain has entered a new kind of freedom.”

— Aimee Bender

The genuine dictator makes people cry not only by his life, but also by his death.

— Ilkin Santak

All religions united with government are more or less inimical to liberty. All, separated from government, are compatible with liberty.

— Henry Clay

Freedom is poetry, taking liberties with words, breaking the rules of normal speech, violating common sense. Freedom is violence.

— Norman O. Brown

“Dependence, sorrow, repentance, a longing to change—these are the gates to God's kingdom.”

— Philip Yancey

We have to treasure our country, our freedom, the progress we've made, and if we see any of that threatened, we have…

— Barbara Boxer

Bad men cannot make good citizens. A vitiated state of morals, a corrupted public conscience are incompatible with freedom.

— Patrick Henry

“Sometimes when you hold on too loosely, it's as if you aren't holding on at all.”

— Layla M. Wier

“When I'm stronger than you I take away your freedom because that is according to my principles.”

— Frank Herbert

Bring the pure wine of love and freedom. But sir, a tornado is coming. More wine, we'll teach this storm A thing…

— Rumi

To get the inestimable good that freedom of the press assures one must know how to submit to the inevitable evil it…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

We started playing 'Free Bird' in clubs, and initially, it was just a slow ballad.

— Gary Rossington

Thus the right of nullification meant by Mr. Jefferson is the natural right, which all admit to be a remedy against insupportable…

— James Madison

I understand that drugs aren't for everybody, I think it's an issue of personal freedom of choice.

— Kool A.D

We don't appreciate what we have until it's gone. Freedom is like that. It's like air. When you have it, you don't…

— Boris Yeltsin

The greater the share the people have in government, the less liberty, civil or religious, does a nation enjoy.

— John Wesley

Freedom of speech was arranged by ancestors who couldn't possibly have had an idea of what-all was going to be said.

— Star Smithtown New York

America will never run... And we will always be grateful that liberty has found such brave defenders.

— George W. Bush

Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth.

— Aldous Huxley

Freedom is not a concept in which people can do anything they want, be anything they can be. Freedom is about authority.

— Rudy Giuliani

“I am saying the choices we make in captivity are not always the choices we make in freedom. And thus we question…

— Cassandra Clare

Those who prize freedom only for the material benefits it offers have never kept it for long.

— Alexis de Tocqueville