Freedom Quotes · Page 348

If freedom were not so economically efficient it certainly wouldn't stand a chance.

— Milton Friedman

All men desire to free themselves solely from death; they do not know how to free themselves from life.

— Laozi

Revolution will free society of its afflictions, while science will free the individual of his.

— Mario Vargas Llosa

Buy your freedom. Work really hard when you're young, save every penny, make a lot of money, and retire at 40, or…

— Andrew Skurka

I have lived under totalitarian Communism, so I prize freedom as much as anyone and have long fought for freedom of conscience…

— Os Guinness

Music doesn't argue, discuss, or quarrel. It just breathes the air of freedom.

— Harold Arlen

“we are set free from all the illusions we fostered for so many years of our life.”

— Cornelius Wencel

I grew up learning about the United States being the leader of the free world. And that's what we are.

— Colin Allred

“The man or woman who proclaims devotion to the cause of liberation yet is unable to enter into communion with the people,…

— Paulo Freire

And may that Being who is supreme over all, the Patron of order, the Fountain of justice, and the Protector, in all…

— John Quincy Adams

“… the understanding of the reasons for the totalitarian flight from freedom is a premise for any action which aims at the…

— Erich Fromm

For us democracy is a question of human dignity. And human dignity is political freedom, the right to freely express opinion and…

— Olof Palme

I will stand against WEF policies that undermine our sovereignty, erode our freedom, and attempt to shape our destiny into their post-nationalist…

— Leslyn Lewis

Talk about national interests: When we went in with Operation Iraqi Freedom, some of our allies, Turkey, for example, would not let…

— Roger Wicker

I certainly enjoy going on stage and lecturing and talking to Congress. That's a personality explanation. And given government proposals, I thought…

— Whitfield Diffie

“If the mystery of the Trinity is the template of all reality, what we have in the Trinitarian God is the perfect…

— Richard Rohr

Real freedom will come when U.S. soldiers in Iraq turn their guns on their superiors.

— John Daly

Western civilization is based upon the libertarian principle, and all its achievements are the results of the action of free men.

— Ludwig von Mises

The tidal wave of God's providence is carrying liberty throughout the globe.

— Henry Ward Beecher

The vote is the emblem of your equality, women of America, the guarantee of your liberty.

— Carrie Chapman Catt

As much as we have free choice, absolute destiny is immutable. What is meant to happen does, through one measure or another.

— J.R. Ward

“Some are meant to make rules, some are meant to break them. Others just follow.”

— Pushkar Saraf

It's freeing, to think that there's always an aspect of us outside the grasp of speech, the common stuff of language.

— Mark Doty

There's a fine line between giving the sense of freedom and being too free.

— Joe Satriani

Out of the freedom from worry that God's generosity provides comes an impulse toward simplicity rather than accumulation.

— John Piper

“The accepted view appears to be that Neruda represent the real Chile: a place of poetry, freedom of spirit and international enterprise.”

— Brian Keenan

Music lovers always want to hear the best. It's about freedom of choice, we supply the music.

— Neil Young

“Individuals entering into society, must give up a share of liberty to preserve the rest.”

— George Washington

Freedom does not come automatically; it is achieved. And it is not gained in a single bound; it must be achieved each…

— Rollo May

It's a liberation to know that an act of spontaneous courage is yet possible in this world. An act that has something…

— Henrik Ibsen

Each night within his prison cell, he looks out through the bars. He reads the letters that she wrote. One day he'll…

— Nightwish

Whenever men take the law into their own hands, the loser is the law. And when the law loses, freedom languishes.

— Robert Kennedy

[L]iberty cannot be preserved, if the manners of the people are corrupted . . .

— Algernon Sidney

There is a growing consensus that Globalization must now be reshaped to reflect values broader than simply the freedom of capital.

— John Sweeney

We fight not for glory, nor for wealth, nor honour but only and alone for freedom which no good man surrenders but…

— Robert the Bruce

Freedom in the Mind, Faith in the words.. Pride in our Souls.. Lets salute the Nation on 60th Independence Day!

— Azgraybebly Joslan

The aim of university education should be to turn out true servants of the people who will live and die for the…

— Mahatma Gandhi

“I'm not an alcoholic, I am freedom fighter against the teetotal taliban.”

— Al Murray

“There was something melancholic about that symbol of their nation's promise of freedom, a bell with a chipped mouth and cleft body.”

— E.A. Bucchianeri

The American free market system is the greatest engine for prosperity and opportunity that the world has ever seen. Freedom works.

— Ted Cruz