Freedom Quotes · Page 256

Our Founding Fathers knew that without Second Amendment freedom, all of our freedoms could be in jeopardy.

— Wayne LaPierre

Let's commemorate our people's freedom from 210 years of slavery by rushing through a 30-minute Seder.

— Anonymous

Tyranny and despotism can be exercised by many, more rigorously, more vigorously, and more severely, than by one.

— Andrew Johnson

With America's role in the world, we have the ability to help protect the freedom of religion around the globe.

— Steve Daines

I don't think I will ever understand what freedom means, but I am enjoying learning.

— Park Yeon-mi

The First Amendment freedom of religion is as important today as when the Bill of Rights was first written.

— Arlen Specter

“Complete freedom consists of being able to do what you like, provided you also do something you like less.”

— Italo Svevo

Coercion or compulsion never brings about growth. It is freedom that accelerates evolution.

— Paramahansa Yogananda

The good news of suffering is that it brings us to the end of ourselves - a purpose it has certainly served…

— Tullian Tchividjian

Let it never be forgotten that it is not by means of war that states are rendered fit for the enjoyment of…

— Richard Cobden

The embattled gates to equal rights indeed opened up for modern women, but I sometimes think to myself; that is not what…

— Helene Deutsch

I think that in the West, many citizens, especially younger citizens, take their freedoms and institutions for granted and focus on their…

— Kofi Annan

Since the end of WWII, France's steady movement away from Western ideas of individual liberty and self-determination - and toward collectivist action…

— Charlie Kirk

To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don't grab hold of the water, because if…

— Alan Watts

“If wealth is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in…

— Ziad K. Abdelnour

Ours is a government of liberty by, through, and under the law. A great democracy must be progressive or it will soon…

— Theodore Roosevelt

I had very strict parents. My two brothers were power and freedom. I was powerlessness and seclusion.

— Monica Vitti

Perhaps this is the ultimate freedom, eh, Dreamlord? The freedom to leave.

— Neil Gaiman

When I got divorced I was so happy. I love to be spontaneous, I was enjoying my freedom.

— Jocelyn Wildenstein

They [Afghans] understand the difficult truth that their best hope of freedom lies in a temporary experience of imperial rule.

— Michael Ignatieff

I'm really grateful to be given the freedom to have an idea and execute it.

— Evan Mock

The most natural ideology is nature itself. The nature laws are unwritten, but always workable.

— Ilkin Santak

The current motto for all of us can only be this: without giving up anything on the plane of justice, yield nothing…

— Albert Camus

Complete independence will be complete only to the extent of our approach in practice to truth and nonviolence.

— Mahatma Gandhi

When I think about America, I think about freedom. Freedom of speech, freedom of religion. It's a peaceful country.

— Enes Kanter

Freedom is the right to question and change the established way of doing things.

— Ronald Reagan

I express many absurd opinions. But I am not the first man to do it; American freedom consists largely in talking nonsense.

— E. W. Howe

To be free, first of all, is to be free from wrong views that are the foundation of all kinds of suffering…

— Nhat Hanh

Freedom is not to be destroyed in the name of love. Freedom is a far higher value than your so-called love.

— Rajneesh

“Actual freedom has not increased in proportion to man's awareness of it.”

— Albert Camus

The political core of any movement for freedom in the society has to have the political imperative to protect free speech.

— Bell Hooks

The South resented giving the Afro-American his freedom, the ballot box and the Civil Rights Law.

— Ida B. Wells

We can all be free. Maybe not in words. Maybe not with a look. But with your mind.

— Anonymous

Liberty without Learning is always in peril and Learning without Liberty is always in vain.

— John F. Kennedy

To find your true identity within the will of Tze Yo Tzuh...that is the highest of all freedoms.

— Gene Luen Yang

If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and will never…

— Thomas Jefferson

There is no justification for taking away individuals' freedom in the guise of public safety.

— Thomas Jefferson

I love that our country is one where you have the freedom to protest and to stand up for what you believe…

— Gus Kenworthy

“I'll never flourish with your incessant interference. I need some freedom.”

— E.L. James

Capitalism has given people both the liberty and the incentive to create, produce, and trade, thereby generating prosperity.

— Johan Norberg