Freedom Quotes · Page 372

Some people in China don't look at freedom of speech as an abstract ideal, but more as a means to an end.

— Yiyun Li

Children should have enough freedom to be themselves - once they've learned the rules.

— Anna Quindlen

“In the name of freedom and redistribution of wealth, I’ve decided to grow a beard on my chest.”

— Jarod Kintz

A standing military force, with an overgrown Executive will not long be safe companions to liberty.

— James Madison

We must make the building of a free society once more an intellectual adventure, a deed of courage.

— Friedrich August von Hayek

They will avoid ... those Overgrown Military establishements which ... are ... particularly hostile to Republican liberty.

— George Washington

I think there's some connection between absolute discipline and absolute freedom.

— Alan Rickman

People like you and I, though mortal of course like everyone else, do not grow old no matter how long we live.

— Albert Einstein

Mother Liberty caresses with generous affections...[those] who, armed with the weapons of high-minded honesty,...have grasped that the freedom of each is rooted…

— Emma Goldman

A government which lays taxes on the people not required by urgent public necessity and sound public policy is not a protector…

— Calvin Coolidge

For me, I go somewhere for three days, and then I come back and I want to change everything, and so it's…

— Nicolas Ghesquiere

“Martin took the same course, thinking as he went, that perhaps the free and independent citizens, who in their moral elevation, owned…

— Charles Dickens

I'm incredibly humbled that the leader of the modern liberty movement and strong conservative leader Congressman Ron Paul is backing our campaign.

— Ted Yoho

“Slavery's fundamental offense against human rights was not that it took liberty away (which can happen in many other situations), but that…

— Hannah Arendt

People ask me why I am a feminist. Because I am a woman of freedom and equality and it is not possible…

— Maria Teresa Horta

The birthright of man ... is such a degree of liberty, civil and religious, as is compatible with the liberty of every…

— Mary Wollstonecraft

Well, if crime fighters fight crime and fire fighters fight fire, what do freedom fighters fight? They never mention that part to…

— George Carlin

I have complete freedom, and there's no way to get pigeonholed or bored. What could be better than that?

— Richard Marx

We in Europe ... do not consider the freedom to buy weapons a human right.

— Gisela Kallenbach

Humbleness, forgiveness, clarity and love are the dynamics of freedom. They are the foundations of authentic power.

— Gary Zukav

I anticipate the Day when to command Respect in the remotest Regions it will be sufficient to say I am an American.

— Benjamin Rush

Acceptance is the word we must substitute for dependence in dealing with the aged. Their acceptance of help, ours of their need.

— Maureen Howard

The most essential mental quality for a free people, whose liberty is to be progressive, permanent and on a large scale, is…

— Walter Bagehot

The enjoyment of freedom which could be exercised without any motivation would be the real hallmark of a maniac.

— Denis Diderot

The awesomest name one ever had was LALALA JPAT RAI. The coolest freedom fighter if u ask me!

— Alfaaz

We'll finally be set free, be set free, be set free. Just be glad you know what life is. Be glad you…

— Suicide Silence

It's Independence Day. Lets proudly wave our American flags...made in China!

— Anonymous

“Surrounded by opulent banquet and shiny gold pieces, you will have lost your freedom.”

— sir kristian goldmund aumann

The people is always expressive of the truth. The life of a people cannot be a lie.

— Alexander Herzen

More Americans are enjoying the freedom of independence from the chains of welfare

— William Reynolds Archer Jr

The freedom that money gives you makes you... well, I wouldn't say happy, but I'd say it gives you diversity.

— Paloma Faith

Every man or woman who makes a stand helps keep the flame of freedom burning.

— Juliet Marillier

People don't want to have their rights online violated. They want the freedom of the Internet.

— Ana Kasparian

In Europe, charters of liberty have been granted by Power. In America ... charters of power [are] granted by liberty.

— James Madison

My heart's desire was freedom... 400 years ago they'd have burned me as a witch or dunked me like a big biscuit.

— Kathy Burke

I think everybody deserves freedom. Freedom is such an abstract word, but it's all we need.

— Ai Weiwei

“Mercy there was great, and grace was free; Pardon there was multiplied to me; There my burdened soul found liberty at Calvary.”

— Robert J. Morgan

We are in this business, whether it be intelligence or the government, to protect freedom, democracy and liberty, not to violate that.

— John O. Brennan

6 keys to a relationship: friendship, freedom, honesty, trust. understanding and communication.

— Anonymous

The greatest glory of a free-born people is to transmit that freedom to their children.

— William Harvard