Freedom Quotes

I never abandoned either forms or freedom. I imagine that most of what could be called free verse is in my first book. I got through that fairly early.

Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it.

The man form is higher than the angel form; of all forms it is the highest. Man is the highest being in creation, because he aspires to freedom.

In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from.

The freedom of the press works in such a way that there is not much freedom from it.

The first of all commodities to be exchanged is labour, and the freedom of man consists only in the exercise of the right to determine for himself in what manner his labour shall be employed, and how he will dispose of its products.

Freedom is the most contagious virus known to man.

Only free men can negotiate; prisoners cannot enter into contracts. Your freedom and mine cannot be separated.

It's great to have the freedom to enjoy your work and not feel like you're leaving your other life behind.

The current total of countries in the world with First Amendments is one. You have guaranteed freedom of speech. Other countries don't have that.

The best way to enhance freedom in other lands is to demonstrate here that our democratic system is worthy of emulation.

Finally, people are starting to recognize freedom and peace do have a cause, they do have a price.

Wherever it is resisted, slaver dies away and freedom grows.

Freedom. Freedom of religion. Freedom to speak their mind. Freedom to build a life. And yes, freedom to build a business. With their own hands. This is the essence of the American experience.

Most men, after a little freedom, have preferred authority with the consoling assurances and the economy of effort it brings.

Well, since I produce and pay for my own albums, it is the ultimate freedom.

Before anything else, we need a new age of Enlightenment. Our present political systems must relinquish their claims on truth, justice and freedom and have to replace them with the search for truth, justice, freedom and reason.

Two hundred years ago, our precursors in Haiti struck a blow for freedom, which was heard around the world, and across centuries.

It is for each of us freely to choose whom we shall serve, and find in that obedience our freedom.

Today is a celebration of hope for the Iraqi people. The Iraqi people can now take control of their government and their future by creating a society that protects the rights endowed to us by our creator - life, liberty and freedom.

I do get angry some time, but if I let that feeling take over it would only cloud my thinking and disable me from making the right decision when it counts the most. I just try to think about my mother, children, God, and of course my freedom.

There are considerable advantages to using many degrees of freedom to store information, stability and controllability being perhaps the most important.

Five or six hundred heads cut off would have assured your repose, freedom and happiness.

I am in favor of complete freedom of information and of free access to the new communication tools, in particular the Internet.

If governments let themselves be fully bound by the decisions of their parliaments without protecting their own freedom to act, a breakup of Europe would be a more probable outcome than deeper integration.

I am a Republican, a black, dyed in the wool Republican, and I never intend to belong to any other party than the party of freedom and progress.

The search for human freedom can never be complete without freedom for women.

The freedom to criticize judges and other public officials is necessary to a vibrant democracy. The problem comes when healthy criticism is replaced with more destructive intimidation and sanctions.

The humor is essentially dark for a cartoon and sophisticated. But at the same time, being a cartoon gives the writers more freedom than in a normal sitcom. It always pushes the line that, despite human failings, the Simpsons are really decent people.

I've never had anything but the freedom to do what I wanted just as long as it made me happy.