Freedom Quotes · Page 225

None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but licence.

— John Milton

Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

The freedom of being single and not in love.People you should try it I mean no lien no pain just freedom n…

— Montreal Pruiit

Memorial Day reminds us that our freedom and prosperity comes at a cost.

— Tommy Tuberville

Fiction is such a world of freedom, it's wonderful. If you want someone to fly, they can fly.

— Alice Walker

“The ability for a woman to be free is connected with her ability to love another woman.”

— Susan Griffin

With Christianity, freedom and equality became the two basic concepts of Europe; they are themselves Europe.

— Peter Drucker

“God uses failure to bring us to brokenness, to force us back to a posture of dependence.”

— Seth Barnes, Sr

“The fewer responsibilities we have, the less free we are. Communism and democracy differ in this only by a matter of degree.…

— David Miller

I want to have fun. I want to shine like the sun. I want to be the one that you want to…

— Joni Mitchell

“You need me like ice needs the mountain On which it breeds. Like print needs the page. You move in me like…

— Monica Ferrell

“Is it a small thing to quench the flames of hell with the holy tears of pity -- to unbind the martyr…

— Robert G. Ingersoll

“It is a new Declaration of Independence: No longer do we hold these truths to be self-evident, we hold all truths to…

— Tom Nichols

When I went to the Studio Museum in Harlem, there was a type of freedom that existed where I didn't have to…

— Kehinde Wiley

It should be pointed out that none of Cardew's works ever gave total freedom to the performer. The instructions were a guide…

— John Tilbury

Until the killing of black men, black mothers' sons, becomes as important to the rest of the country as the killing of…

— Ella Baker

Irresponsible power is inconsistent with liberty, and must corrupt those who exercise it.

— John C. Calhoun

While the right to talk may be the beginning of freedom, the necessity of listening is what makes that right important.

— Walter Lippmann

I don't think all people yearn for freedom, actually. I think they yearn for stability.

— Tucker Carlson

Only free men can negotiate; prisoners cannot enter into contracts. Your freedom and mine cannot be separated.

— Nelson Mandela

Freedom is not doing what you want when you want. Freedom is the power to do what has to be done when…

— Hugh Douglas

If a person is ashamed of himself, it means that the next stage of development has come.

— Ilkin Santak

Ultimately, America's answer to the intolerant man is diversity, the very diversity which our heritage of religious freedom has inspired.

— Robert Kennedy

History teaches that grave threats to liberty often come in times of urgency, when constitutional rights seem too extravagant to endure.

— Thurgood Marshall

Liberty of conscience is for those who truly fear the Lord. A fundamental task of the state is the establishment of pure…

— John Cotton

Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it.

— Malcolm X

Responsibility and respect of others and their religious beliefs are also part of freedom.

— Anonymous

The people's liberties strengthen the king's prerogative, and the king's prerogative is to defend the people's liberties.

— Charles I of England

People come to me to write songs that will be successful for them, and they allow me the freedom to do so.

— Linda Perry

“Humans are needy by design. Will we abandon the myth of independence and seek God?”

— Edward T. Welch

The external freedom won't be given to us but in the exact measure as we've known at a given moment, to developing…

— Mahatma Gandhi

Most of us cherish freedom, but when we actually get the opportunity to make our own way it can be terrifying.

— Tom Butler-Bowdon

They tell me that it will be hard to find a man strong enough to love my own strength and independence, and…

— Diana Ross

The saints' deep secret is this: do not seek freedom, and freedom will be given you.

— Tito Colliander

This is what I am learning, at 82 years old: the main thing is to be in love with the search for truth.

— Maya Angelou

It is the Soviet Union that runs against the tide of human history by denying human freedom and human dignity to its…

— Ronald Reagan

I want to be American. America is the coolest place on the face of the Earth. You've got freedom of speech. You've…

— Ozzy Osbourne

You cannot preach self-government and liberty to people in a starving land.

— Fiorello H. La Guardia

“Freedom is the source from which all significations and all values spring. It is the original condition of all justification of existence.”

— Simone de Beauvoir

Democracy sometimes appears paralyzed by those who take advantage of its freedoms in order to abuse them for undemocratic ends.

— David Pryce-Jones