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Freedom Quotes
"Never, never and never again shall it be that this beautiful land will again experience the oppression of one by another."
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"We should favor innovation and freedom over regulation."
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"Government's first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives."
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"I do have the freedom to choose what I want to do and I'll continue to do that."
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"Freedom is not an inheritance; it is a responsibility."
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"I will always vote on the side of freedom and our right to keep and bear arms."
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"Freedom on the inside comes when validation from the outside doesn't matter."
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"Their poverty secured their freedom, since our desires and our possessions are the strongest fetters of despotism."
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"The only way to set yourself free is to meet each new challenge relatively."
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"Power is given only to those you allow to have power over you. No man was born with a master. The only master of all is the Creator, and he created all men to be free. Freedom is a God-given right, not a human-granted gift. No man should have to fight to breathe in good health and peace."
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"I believe in full freedom for Christians of all denominations."
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"At first, man was enslaved by the gods. But he broke their chains. Then he was enslaved by the kings. But he broke their chains. He was enslaved by his birth, by his kin, by his race. But he broke their chains. He declared to all his brothers that a man has rights which neither god nor king nor other men can take away from him, no matter what their number, for his is the right of man, and there is no right on earth above this right. And he stood on the threshold of freedom for which the blood of the centuries behind him had been spilled."
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"But you who walk facing the sun, what images drawn on the earth can hold you? You who travel with the wind, what weathervane shall direct your course? What man's law shall bind you if you break your yoke but upon no man's prison door? What laws shall you fear if you dance but stumble against no man's iron chains? And who is he that shall bring you to judgment if you tear off your garment yet leave it in no man's path? People of Orphalese, you can muffle the drum, and you can loosen the strings of the lyre, but who shall command the skylark not to sing?"
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"Tyranny is always better organized than freedom."
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"He who believes in freedom of the will has never loved and never hated."
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"Born to be wild; born to be free; nobody owns you; you are, a romantic tree."
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"Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind."
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"Freedom of the press is not questioned when investigative journalism unearths scandals, But that does not mean that every classified state document should be made available to journalists."
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"One of the unsung freedoms that go with a free press is the freedom not to read it."
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"Free speech is meant to protect unpopular speech. Popular speech, by definition, needs no protection."
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"No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare."
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"Profanity and obscenity entitle people who don't want unpleasant information to close their ears and eyes to you."
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"I am running and singing and when it's raining I'm the only one left on the open street, smiling with my eyes fixed on the sky because it's cleaning me. I'm the one on the other side of the party, hearing laughter and the emptying of bottles while I peacefully make my way to the river, a lonely road, following the smell of the ocean. I'm the one waking up at 4am to witness the sunrise, where the sky touches the sea, and I hold my elbows, grasping tight to whatever I've made of myself."
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"Love frees my thoughts and deeds."
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"The most important issue we have to deal with is freedom of movement."
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"True independence and freedom can only exist in doing what's right."
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"If excitement is a mechanism our Creator uses for His own amusement, love is something that belongs to us alone and enables us to flee the Creator. Love is our freedom. Love lies beyond "Es Muss sein!"
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"That's free enterprise, friends: freedom to gamble, freedom to lose. And the great thing - the truly democratic thing about it - is that you don't even have to be a player to lose."
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"That knowledge humbles me, melts my bones, closes my ears, and makes my teeth rock loosely in their gums. And it also liberates me. I am a big bird winging over high mountains, down into serene valleys. I am ripples of waves on silver seas. I'm a spring leaf trembling in anticipation."
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