Freedom Quotes · Page 187

I needed to choose between the one thing that really filled thoughts-my love for that woman-and losing my freedom

— Anonymous

Is this freedom? Is it happiness? I don't know. I don't care anymore. It is different--it is being alive.

— Lauren Oliver

Furthermore, when citizens are all almost equal, it becomes difficult for them to defend their independence against the aggressions of power.

— Alexis de Tocqueville

There is only one way of attaining liberation and of obtaining the omniscience of enlightenment: following an authentic spiritual master.

— Sogyal Rinpoche

There is no fire like passion No crime like hatred, No sorrow like separation, No sickness like hunger, And no joy like…

— Gautama Buddha

The liberty to make our laws does not give us the freedom nor the license to break our laws!

— William McKinley

There is but one straight course, and that is to seek truth and pursue it steadily

— George Washington

The deeper the experience of the free grace of God, the more generous we must become.

— Timothy Keller

Whether it's freedom to express, freedom to live, freedom to earn, freedom to thrive, freedom to learn, whatever it is, I want…

— Angela Rye

The beliefs expressed in the Declaration of Independence remain a standard for our nation today. They also remain a standard for those…

— Paul Gillmor

You put a tattoo on yourself with the knowledge that this body is yours to have and enjoy while you're here. You…

— Don Ed Hardy

The way you delegate is that first you have to hire people that you really have confidence in. You won't truly let…

— Robert Pozen

“You get your freedom by not being confined. You get freedom by letting your enemy know that you'll do anything to get…

— Malcolm X

Our policy is simple: We are not going to betray our friends, reward the enemies of freedom, or permit fear and retreat…

— Ronald Reagan

Here then is the origin and rise of government; namely, a mode rendered necessary by the inability of moral virtue to govern…

— Thomas Paine

The fact that women have been moving forward, that a woman was running for president, that we had a black president -…

— Eve Ensler

What belongs to our independence and national sovereignty, we will never give up.

— Nguyen Phu Trong

Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good…

— John Quincy Adams

Happiness depends on being free, and freedom depends on being courageous.

— Anonymous

This is real freedom-the ability to enjoy the choices we make in every successive moment of the present.

— Deepak Chopra

“It looks like freedom but it feels like death, it's something in between I guess. It's closing time.”

— Leonard Cohen

School gives you the freedom to explore different philosophies, religions, aspects of yourself, and subjects.

— Leigh Steinberg

A majority in all parties do, I think, want to see local government recover its old vigour and independence.

— Ferdinand Mount

“By forgiving, we become free to renew ourselves and open the joyful golden gate of abundance.”

— Debasish Mridha

The choice for mankind lies between freedom and happiness and for the great bulk of mankind, happiness is better.

— George Orwell

As soon as I'm on the road, I see, often palpably, that I know nothing at all, which is always a great…

— Pico Iyer

Before we are citizens, we are children, and it is as children that we come to understand freedom and authority, liberty and…

— Orson Scott Card

I like the outdoors. I like to run. In gym I feel restricted. When I exercise in open, it gives me a…

— Milind Soman

You're free. And freedom is beautiful. And, you know, it'll take time to restore chaos and order - order out of chaos.…

— George W. Bush

I tell you, in my opinion, the cornerstone of democracy is free press - that's the cornerstone.

— Milos Forman

We're so hard on ourselves, and there's a freedom in realizing that we're our toughest critics.

— Iliza Shlesinger

Our forbears worked hard this difficult land, and their reward was the freedom and independence of self-sufficiency.

— Anonymous

We cannot restore traditional American freedom unless we limit the government's power to tax.

— Frank Chodorov

“The memory of their former freedom will not let them rest; so that the safest course is either to destroy them, or…

— Niccolò Machiavelli

“Freedom is not free. Free men are not equal. Equal men are not free. The Trial of Phillis Wheatley”

— Richard Cotten

Let men not ask what the law requires, but give whatever freedom demands.

— Jefferson Davis

We also call for free public education going forward. We know it pays for itself.

— Jill Stein

Exclusion is never the way forward on our shared paths to freedom and justice.

— Desmond Tutu

Young people are capable, when aroused, of bringing down the towers of oppression and raising the banners of freedom.

— Nelson Mandela

Individuals cannot be free if there are impediments to reaching their full potential as human beings.

— Martin Luther King III