Freedom Quotes · Page 248

The object and practice of liberty lies in the limitation of government power.

— Douglas MacArthur

Work at not needing approval from anyone and you will be free to be who you really are.

— Nachman of Breslov

Regardless of what barriers confront you, it is in your power to free yourselves; you have only to want to.

— Olympe de Gouges

Our economic freedom is founded on individual property rights; government should never be permitted to take those away.

— Ernest Istook

When you reduce what you need in life to the bare minimum, then that's when you achieve true freedom.

— Mark Boyle

The price of freedom is the willingness to do sudden battle anywhere, any time and with utter recklessness.

— Robert A. Heinlein

If they will let me go, I would leave Israel immediately. I would like to see the world, to exercise my freedom.

— Mordechai Vanunu

Start with a style and you are in chains, start with an idea and you are free.

— Richard Avedon

One of the jobs of comedy is to expose hypocrisy. When you look at countries like Iran or North Korea that don't…

— Maz Jobrani

It seems to me now that mathematics is capable of an artistic excellence as great as that of any music, perhaps greater;…

— Bertrand Russell

The plan was always to come to America, because Pakistan's a scary place. They don't have religious freedom. It's very poor, and…

— Kumail Nanjiani

“Many of my proposals are aimed at freeing humans so they can discover and pursue their personal interests and purpose, while existing…

— Albert Wenger

It was his soul's freedom that was in question. And that question was whether freedom was worth the price when it meant…

— Janet Morris

We need to defend principles like democracy, freedom of speech, gender equality, and the rule of law through exemplifying these on a…

— Deeyah Khan

The very opposite of freedom is cliche, and nothing is less free, more inert with convention and hollow brutality, than a row…

— George Steiner

Understanding, and action proceeding from understanding and guided by it, is one weapon against the world's bombardment, the one medicine, the one…

— James Agee

If for harming himself a man forfeits his freedom, then he is not free at all.

— Ilana Mercer

Freedom requires us to view people as wanting the opportunity to earn their success.

— Todd Young

We have freedom to demonstrate in Germany, but there is no place for incitement and insulting people who come to us from…

— Angela Merkel

“Freedom's sweet birthright they receive again, Under the mystic sway of holy might.”

— Friedrich Schiller

I equally dislike the favor of the public with the love of a woman - they are both a cloying treacle to…

— John Keats

“Freedom in Christ produces a healthy independence from peer pressure, people-pleasing, and the bondage of human respect.”

— Brennan Manning

A man unconsciously imagines that where he is strong, where he feels most thoroughly alive, the element of his freedom must lie.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

May it be to the world... to assume the blessings and security of self-government.

— Thomas Jefferson

... the absolute freedom of woman will be the dawn of the day of man's regeneration. In raising her he will elevate himself.

— Tennessee Celeste Claflin

“when it comes to the question of dependence or independence!—At any rate, it must be better to have only one to please…

— Jane Austen

“The essence of one life is empowering another life, and so your passion has to be linked to the liberation of other…

— Israelmore Ayivor

I talk about economic freedom. I talk about capitalism without fearing the word.

— Maxime Bernier

“Well then, I'll take a whole heap of that emancipation, Mister Jesse. Yes, sir, a whole heap." -Cyrus A Glimpse Of Freedom”

— M.A. Bookout

Dare to be free, dare to go as far as your thought leads, and dare to carry that out in your life.

— Anonymous

But since independence, Gabon is one of the few countries in Central Africa that enjoys peace and stability.

— Omar Bongo

“He was free, free for everything, free to act like an animal or like a machine.”

— Jean Paul Sartre

Liberty is not merely a privilege to be conferred; it is a habit to be acquired.

— David Lloyd George

I want to emphasize the fact that the independence of Kosovo should and will be recognized.

— Ibrahim Rugova

Liberty is rendered even more precious by the recollection of servitude.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Ever wonder why the media never refers to 18 or 19 year old American soldiers as "armed teens"?”

— Stefan Molyneux

I want to be free Michael, just for once in my whole life I want to be free" "You are free. You…

— Francine Rivers

Nothing is more essential in the treatment of serious disease than the liberation of the patient from panic and foreboding.

— Norman Cousins

“Most people know nothing about freedom; only the facsimile of freedom into which they were inculcated.”

— Bryant McGill

I like to give the actors the freedom, and they know they have the freedom, to change anything they want at any…

— Ramin Bahrani