Freedom Quotes

Freedom. And Justice. If you have those two, it covers everything. You must stick to those principles and have the courage of your convictions.

I know of no country in which there is so little independence of mind and real freedom of discussion as in America.

Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.

Freedom requires no effort to enjoy but requires heroic efforts to preserve.

To increase aid to the Pakistan government when religious freedom is not upheld is tantamount to an anti-Christian foreign policy.

Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.

I believe in that connection between freedom and the city.

There's a glorious sense of freedom in comedy, just allowing myself to tell jokes, allowing myself to interrupt myself and tell old African folk stories that I made up - or didn't - and Jamaican stories.

True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.

Rock and roll music - the music of freedom frightens people and unleashes all manner of conservative defense mechanisms.

Freedom is a possession of inestimable value.

When the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the Affordable Care Act, Sarah Palin tweeted, 'Obama lies; freedom dies.' She's referring, I guess, to the freedom to go without health care when you're sick.

Freedom means the freedom to behave coarsely, basely, foolishly.

Laying tracks gives you freedom without being too obvious.

Who is more to be pitied, a writer bound and gagged by policemen or one living in perfect freedom who has nothing more to say?

Once you have an animal, you have to commit to it. They need a sense of freedom, but, of course, they must have some boundaries. I am against hitting them though; just send the vibe and that will do it.

For more than four decades, the Libyan people have been ruled by a tyrant - Moammar Gaddafi. He has denied his people freedom, exploited their wealth, murdered opponents at home and abroad, and terrorized innocent people around the world - including Americans who were killed by Libyan agents.

I can say now: all the combatants who participated in the fight for freedom in South America came to Algeria; it's from there that all those who fought left. We trained them, we arranged for the weapons to reach them, we created networks.

China has to go along with world trends. That's democracy, liberty, individual freedom. China sooner or later has to go that way. It cannot go backward.

Will they attack us? Yes. Will they smear our backgrounds and distort our records? Undoubtedly. Will they lie about us, harass our families, namecall to try to intimidate us? They will. There's nothing safe about it. But is it worth it? Well, let me ask you. Is freedom worth it? Is America worth it?

That happens every time I get behind a guitar, regardless of what I'm saying, 'cause music is freedom and being free is the closest I've ever felt to being spiritual.

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

None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free.

What is the essence of America? Finding and maintaining that perfect, delicate balance between freedom "to" and freedom "from."

I believe in trying to get a balance between individual freedom on the one hand and social responsibility on the other.

I think that we could be more careful about what we're saying to young women in terms of their expectations. It's unrealistic to expect people to always be in designer clothes. Girls growing up deserve more freedom in how they look and how they feel about how they look.

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

The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission.

Human freedom involves our capacity to pause, to choose the one response toward which we wish to throw our weight.

Ironically, it is exactly because we are a city that embraces freedom, that welcomes everyone and encourages their dreams, that New York remains on the front lines in the war on terror.