Freedom Quotes · Page 304

All religions united with government are more or less inimical to liberty. All, separated from government, are compatible with liberty.

— Henry Clay

“Dependence, sorrow, repentance, a longing to change—these are the gates to God's kingdom.”

— Philip Yancey

There is something about boldness and fearlessness and being free enough to speak what is on one's mind that warrants freedom.

— Cornel West

Love needs two things: it has to be rooted in freedom and it has to know the art of trust.

— Rajneesh

Eventually I want to be a full-time mother who works occasionally - and being an actor you have that freedom.

— Carrie-Anne Moss

That's when civil liberty suffers - when we think special times justify the diminution of civil liberties. And I'm not going to…

— Alan Dershowitz

“If freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.”

— George Washington

“Heaven will always support your godly move; be it a righteous cause or be it a desire to see people free from…

— Sunday Adelaja

“When is a market free?" With regard to the first corollary identified above, freedom in Augustine's view is not simply the absence…

— William T. Cavanaugh

The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. You…

— Jim Morrison

The education we all receive from the State, at school and after, has so warped our minds that the very notion of…

— Peter Kropotkin

Rastafarianism and reggae music have always kind of resonated with me. Those ideas of redemption, liberation and overcoming oppression through music, weed…

— Conor Oberst

It is your business to rise up and preserve the Union and liberty, for yourselves, and not for me. I desire they…

— Abraham Lincoln

Everything can be taken from a man or a woman but one thing: the last of human freedoms to choose one's attitude…

— Anonymous

Everyone has the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion; this right includes freedom to change his religion or belief, and…

— Eleanor Roosevelt

What we want is not mainly to colonize Nebraska with free men, but to colonize Massachusetts with free men-to be free ourselves.…

— Henry David Thoreau

“SUICIDE... Is to have the freedom to choose; when, where and how to die. ― John Zea”

— John Zea

If you do not force political freedom, economic freedom will be stymied sooner or later.

— Milton Friedman

Marxism has not only failed to promote human freedom, it has failed to produce food.

— John Dos Passos

There is a huge amount of freedom that comes to you when you take nothing personally.

— Anonymous

I have said that throughout history, there have been great leaders who have embodied freedom.

— Javier Milei

“You have the freedom to be yourself, your true self, here and now, and nothing can stand in your way. It is…

— Richard Bach

“Emptiness is life without freedom, Darrow. Emptiness is living chained by fear, fear of loss, of death.”

— Pierce Brown

In the end, madness is worse than injustice, and justice far sweeter than freedom.

— Hisham Matar

When you legislate personal belief, you're in violation of freedom of religion.

— John Irving

From Uber and Lyft drivers to financial advisors to local artists, we should support workers' freedom and our gig economy.

— Young Kim

When a profession is protected by academic freedom and tenure, it tends to turn inward. To a large extent that's good.

— Martha C. Nussbaum

The true opposite of depression is not gaiety or absence of pain, but vitality: the freedom to experience spontaneous feelings.

— Alice Miller

“The white man say we’re fighting for freedom from totalitarianism, terrorism and tyranny, but nobody know what he mean. I”

— Marlon James

I was brought up by two extremely intelligent people who gave me the greatest gift that man can give anyone, and that…

— Katharine Hepburn

[On her Freedom Farm Cooperative:] If you give a hungry man food, he will eat it. [But] if you give him land,…

— Fannie Lou Hamer

Until you have lost your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was or what freedom really is.

— Margaret Mitchell

Heaven's blessing must attend all, and freedom must soon be given to the pining millions under a ruthless bondage.

— Frederick Douglass

Freedom of the press is not an end in itself but a means to the end of a free society.

— Felix Frankfurter

But Aristotle's philosophy was the intellect's Declaration of Independence.

— Ayn Rand

I grew up with injustice and could do nothing about it. But once in America, I had freedom of choice.

— Zainab Salbi

Socialism is antithetical to freedom, because when it breeds and thrives, people die.

— Lisa Kennedy Montgomery

Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.

— Albert Camus

I enjoy the freedom of modern dance as well as the constraints of classical dance.

— Deborah Bull

I came out of the Soviet Union no longer a communist, because I believed in personal freedom.

— Rose Wilder Lane