Freedom Quotes · Page 288

Moses was the greatest legislator and the commander in chief of perhaps the first liberation army.

— Elie Wiesel

I will be free, no lover's kiss to bind me to earth, no bliss of love to counteract actual bliss.

— Hilda Doolittle

To place any dependence upon militia, is, assuredly, resting upon a broken staff.

— George Washington

Censorship is a really big deal, but online you don't have anything. You have slightly more freedom.

— Tahir Raj Bhasin

Terrorism tramples upon any rights and freedoms and generates fear and hatred; it is an obstacle to efforts at improving our world.

— Dmitry Medvedev

The NRA is where you resist, and stand and fight to put America back on track to restore and preserve our individual…

— Wayne LaPierre

We anarchists do not want to emancipate the people; we want the people to emancipate themselves.

— Errico Malatesta

“If there is anything of which I am certain in life it is that I shall never exchange the liberty of my…

— Vladimir Nabokov

“In a world of fixed future, there can be no right or wrong. Right and wrong demand freedom of choice, but if…

— Alan Lightman

“It is the fate of great achievements, born from a way of life that sets truth before security, to be gobbled up…

— Wilhelm Reich

I would wake up at night and think, 'What the hell have I gotten myself into? You don't want to do that!'…

— Richard Artschwager

We are fighting for the right to live as free humans in this society. In fact, we are actually fighting for rights…

— Malcolm X

“Under that democracy, license was not confounded with freedom. Political 'equality' has been understood in two senses: as meaning either that all…

— Isocrates

The laws of certain states . . . give an ownership in the service of Negroes as personal property . . .…

— Alexander Hamilton

I venture on assuring you that I regard the design formed by you and your friends with sincere interest, and in particular…

— William E. Gladstone

“When there is a problem in the world, we say "What are they going to do about it". At which point they,…

— David Icke

The isolation of every human soul and the necessity of self- dependence must give each individual the right to choose his own…

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

You will not make a man wiser by taking freedom of action from him. A man can only learn when he is…

— Auberon Herbert

Without economic development, any potential for political openness and freedom will be questionable.

— Jose Maria Aznar

By the laws of God, of nature, of nations, and of your country you are and ought to be as free a…

— Jonathan Swift

Freedom is control in your own life. I have more control now than in the past, and I'm learning the value of…

— Willie Nelson

No man is entitled to the blessings of freedom unless he be vigilant in its preservation.

— Douglas MacArthur

“Tethered heart, free spirit.--If one tethers one's heart severely and imprisons it, one can give one's spirit many liberties.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Freedom lurked around us and I understood, at last, that he could help us be free if we would listen, that he…

— Anonymous

Being offended by freedom of speech should never be regarded as a justification for violence.

— Alan Dershowitz

Liberty is not collective, it is personal. All liberty is individual liberty.

— Calvin Coolidge

“Potentially, anyone writing on the Web can reach a global audience. In practice, hardly anyone ever does.”

— Nick Cohen

You are free to choose what has been placed before you, or create a choice to your desire.

— Anonymous

To my mind the single essential element on which all discoveries will be dependent is human freedom.

— Barry Goldwater

“We have too many of the wrong things in common to be more than sex, and the realization is freedom to me.”

— Lisa Renee Jones

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

— Neil Gaiman

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

— Mahatma Gandhi

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

— Albert Camus

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

— Ilkin Santak

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

— Evan Mock

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

— E. W. Howe

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

— Ronald Reagan

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

— Enes Kanter