Freedom Quotes · Page 356

Our emotions are often beautiful, but they can also be dangerous. They represent our spontaneity, and seem to speak to us of…

— Tariq Ramadan

Meditation is a way of moving into the unlimited dimension of who you are - it is the ultimate freedom.

— Jaggi Vasudev

We come here with no peaceful intent, but ready for battle, determined to avenge our wrongs and set our country free.

— William Wallace

A people averse to the institution of private property is without the first elements of freedom

— Lord Acton

I am lucky to have the freedom to do a variety of roles. I feel blessed.

— Divya Dutta

Freedom of opinion is like health; both are individual, and no good general conception can be set up of either of them.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Neither the wisest constitution nor the wisest laws will secure the liberty and happiness of a people whose manners are universally corrupt.

— Samuel Adams

A teacher in search of his/her own freedom may be the only kind of teacher who can arouse young persons to go…

— Maxine Greene

The early American knew that freedom was nothing more than the absence of external restraint on behavior; the government could not give…

— Frank Chodorov

... we have gratefully to receive from the hand of God the institution of the state with its magistrates as a means…

— Abraham Kuyper

Change is the law of life and of relations between nations. When two great peoples such as ours, energetic and optimistic, live…

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

Everywhere that the struggle for national freedom has triumphed, once the authorities agreed, there were military coups d'etat that overthrew their leaders.…

— Ahmed Ben Bella

One's own free and unfettered volition, one's own caprice, however wild, one's own fancy, inflamed sometimes to the point of madness -…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

Our object now, as then, is to vindicate the principles of peace and justice in the life of the world as against…

— Woodrow Wilson

“How sweet all at once it was for me to be rid of those fruitless joys which I had once feared to…

— Augustine of Hippo

[The] type of education now prevailing all over the world is directed against human freedom. State-controlled education ... deprives people of their…

— Muammar al-Gaddafi

International socialism recognizes the right of free independent nations, with equal rights.

— Karl Liebknecht

I've come to realize that protecting freedom of choice in our everyday lives is essential to maintaining a healthy civil society.

— George McGovern

Sometimes becoming drug free has less to do with addiction and more to do with sanity.

— Shane Koyczan

Whatever my individual desires were to be free, I was not alone. There were many others who felt the same way.

— Rosa Parks

Make no mistake, in this campaign, I will offer the American ideals of economic freedom a clear and unapologetic defense.

— Mitt Romney

Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote.

— Benjamin Franklin

We prate of freedom; we are in deadly fear of life, as much of our own American scene betrays.

— Learned Hand

When the people contend for their liberty, they seldom get anything by their victory but new masters.

— George Savile

Firearms are second only to the Constitution in importance; they are the peoples’ liberty’s teeth

— George Washington

You get your freedom by letting your enemy know that you'll do anything to get it. Then you'll get it. It's the…

— Malcolm X

All religions are inconsistent with mental freedom. Shakespeare is my bible, Burns my hymn-book.

— Robert Green Ingersoll

To truly honor our war dead, we must rededicate ourselves to the cause they sacrificed for freedom and democracy.

— Tom Suozzi

I think almost every economist would agree that government gets itself in trouble when it tries to interfere with voluntary behavior.

— Milton Friedman

“But nothing's really free, is it? People always make you pay one way or another.”

— Jane Lotter

Life without Liberty is like a body without spirit. Liberty without thought is like a disturbed spirit.

— Khalil Gibran

Even though your responsibilities increase when you become a manager, you lose some of the rights or freedoms you may have enjoyed…

— David Cottrell

Writing is a solitary occupation, and one of its hazards is loneliness. But an advantage of loneliness is privacy, autonomy and freedom.

— Joyce Carol Oates

The right to religious freedom has its foundation, not in the church or society or the state, but in the very dignity…

— John Courtney Murray

The limitation of the vlog format is that it may seem to give people enough, when they actually have no real autonomy.

— Charlotte Cotton

Liberation for who does not have a shack and freedom for who does not know how to live is fatal.

— Alireza Salehi Nejad

No people in history have ever survived who thought they could protect their freedom by making themselves inoffensive to their enemies.

— Dean Acheson

The water has always been a place of freedom, safety, but also feeling really strong and capable.

— Jessica Long

The benefit of living in a free society is that we all have the choice to be rich, poor, or middle class.…

— Robert Kiyosaki

Real liberty is neither found in despotism or the extremes of democracy, but in moderate governments.

— Alexander Hamilton