Freedom Quotes - Page 2

The American flag is the most recognized symbol of freedom and democracy in the world.

Every therapeutic cure, and still more, any awkward attempt to show the patient the truth, tears him from the cradle of his freedom from responsibility and must therefore reckon with the most vehement resistance.

Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.

The libertarian worship of individual freedom, and contempt for social convention, comes easiest to people who have never really had to grow up.

The State is the altar of political freedom and, like the religious altar, it is maintained for the purpose of human sacrifice.

Slavery and freedom cannot exist together.

A nation which makes the final sacrifice for life and freedom does not get beaten.

I begin to feel like most Americans don't understand the First Amendment, don't understand the idea of freedom of speech, and don't understand that it's the responsibility of the citizen to speak out.

Coercion, after all, merely captures man. Freedom captivates him.

The greatest threat to freedom is the absence of criticism.

The corporateness of the fashion industry tends to take away or distort the freedom of creation.

Giving up even an ounce of precious freedom is a very serious thing to do.

I always had a knack for improvisation. I can write down the notes I play, but never really had a proper academic musical background. I suppose I'm blessed and cursed by the fact I have that freedom.

Freedom is just another word: It seems to get truer the older I get.

Freedom itself was attacked this morning by a faceless coward, and freedom will be defended.

Responsibility is the price of freedom.

One of the rewards of success is freedom, the ability to do whatever you like.

Freedom is hammered out on the anvil of discussion, dissent, and debate.

Freedom means the opportunity to be what we never thought we would be.

To me, punk rock is the freedom to create, freedom to be successful, freedom to not be successful, freedom to be who you are. It's freedom.

We must face the fact that the preservation of individual freedom is incompatible with a full satisfaction of our views of distributive justice.

I think that freedom means freedom for everyone. As many of you know, one of my daughters is gay, and it is something we have lived with for a long time in our family. I think people ought to be free to enter into any kind of union they wish. Any kind of arrangement they wish.

Now you know my credo: Free-market capitalism is the best path to prosperity. And let me add to that from our Founding Fathers: Our Creator endowed us with the inalienable rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. In other words, freedom.

Freedom means you are unobstructed in living your life as you choose. Anything less is a form of slavery.

Everywhere that the struggle for national freedom has triumphed, once the authorities agreed, there were military coups d'etat that overthrew their leaders. That is the result time and time again.

Mandela's heroism is the heroism of a man who suffered so badly for what he thought of as freedom. And yet when he had the upper hand he has this incredible self-control and these incredible leadership qualities.

There is a real fear around shifting from our existing economic system because people believe it gives us social organisation, a sense of freedom, and the ability to be nice to each other. Growth is seen as a social lubricant that allows us to be socially responsible.

When there is state there can be no freedom, but when there is freedom there will be no state.

What is ominous is the ease with which some people go from saying that they don't like something to saying that the government should forbid it. When you go down that road, don't expect freedom to survive very long.

We cannot expect that all nations will adopt like systems, for conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.