Freedom Quotes · Page 305

Slavery tolerates no freedom of the press, no freedom of speech, no freedom of opinion.

— Hinton Rowan Helper

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

— John Zea

“The truth can set you free, but when it comes, it's more like a wrecking-ball than a holy beam of illumination.”

— Bryant McGill

Better to die fighting for freedom then be a prisoner all the days of your life.

— Bob Marley

The oppressed never free themselves - they do not have the necessary strengths.

— Clare Boothe Luce

Do not allow to slip away from you freedoms the people who came before you won with such hard knocks.

— D. H. Lawrence

I am ... a realist. The magnitude of what one terms license or civil liberties or personal freedom has got to be…

— Lee Kuan Yew

Comfortable shoes and the freedom to leave are the two most important things in life.

— Shel Silverstein

Governments that block the aspirations of their people, that steal or are corrupt, that oppress and torture or that deny freedom of…

— William Hague

The well being of democracies regardless of their type and status is dependent on one small technical detail: The right to vote.…

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

Having federal officials, whether judges, bureaucrats, or congressmen, impose a new definition of marriage on the people is an act of social…

— Ron Paul

Hungary is, in a word, in a state of WAR against the Hapsburg dynasty, a war of legitimate defence, by which alone…

— Lajos Kossuth

“I started thinking about that, and I used to think that the Talib would come, and he would just kill me. But…

— Malala Yousafzai

Before the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth, we were here. Before the pen of Jefferson etched across the pages of history the majestic…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

The impious man, who sells his country's freedom Makes all the guilt of tyranny his own. His are her slaughters, her oppressions…

— Henry Martyn

A small group had concentrated into their own hands an almost complete control over other people's property, other people's money, other people's…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

We are free, truly free, when we don't need to rent our arms to anybody in order to be able to lift…

— Ricardo Flores Magon

Under observation, we act less free, which means we effectively are less free.

— Edward Snowden

Jazz is all about being in the moment. Whatever the music is making you feel, jazz gives you the freedom. That's the…

— Christopher Jackson

There's a freedom to being young that is harder to come by as time goes on.

— Dave Matthews

It seems almost incredible that the advocates of liberty should conceive of the idea of selling a fellow creature to slavery.

— James Forten

“It is mental slavery to cling to things that have stopped serving it’s purpose in your life.”

— Chinonye J. Chidolue

“Repentance is a divine gift, and there should be a smile on our faces when we speak of it. It points us…

— D. Todd Christofferson

“I wanted freedom in the same way I wanted my next breath: an unspoken but constant desire.”

— Jodi Meadows

I have sacrificed for the Republic all that man holds dear - my wife, my children, my liberty, my life.

— Theobald of Bec

I don't think like a central planner. We think in terms of a regime of freedom.

— Javier Milei

I've got personal views on the '60s. You can't have freedom without paying the price for it.

— James Lovelock

I'm all for free speech, and I don't need my viewpoint to be the only viewpoint.

— Brett Gelman

Too many critics mistake the deliberations of the Congress for its decisions.

— Sam Rayburn

Nothing is quite like the Native American Spirit. It is so freeing and liberating to understand the culture. It is a way…

— Jenna Bognar

“We cannot experience free joy and happiness without experiencing the depths of pain.”

— Natalie Brenner

Instead of trusting you more, I trusted you less, and the more I loved you, the less I loved myself. But now…

— Anonymous

Person who fills his inner emptiness with positive opinions of surrounding people is like a person who has to eat hay because…

— Ilkin Santak

I was not always free from melancholy; but even melancholy had its charms.

— Madame Roland

“Stop shrinking yourself down for people who can’t even fit themselves into the boxes they’re trying to force you into.”

— Curtis Tyrone Jones

The only purpose of education is freedom; the only method is experience.

— Leo Tolstoy

I'm not afraid of terrorism at all. I'm afraid of loss of our freedom, loss of mobility, loss of global comradeship.

— Patti Smith

“By 1778, British peace commissioners were offering to rectify all the American grievances of 1776, ignoring only the demand for independence.”

— Willard Sterne Randall

The principles of a free constitution are irrecoverably lost, when the legislative power is nominated by the executive.

— Edward Gibbon

I am you; you are ME. You are the waves; I am the ocean. Know this and be free, be divine.

— Anonymous