When I first came to the United States in 1956 I fell in love with things - mainly the vitality and the freedoms.
~By Harold Evans ~
Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. And so we must straighten our backs and work for our freedom. A man can't ride you unless your back is bent.
~By Martin Luther King, Jr. ~
We need more people speaking out. This country is not overrun with rebels and free thinkers. It's overrun with sheep and conformists.
~By Bill Maher ~
I have opposed the Communist cold war line ever since, both by public utterance and by private help to trade unionists breaking free from the Communist influence.
~By Earl Browder ~
It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have everything one wants.
~By Blaise Pascal ~
Much literary criticism comes from people for whom extreme specialization is a cover for either grave cerebral inadequacy or terminal laziness, the latter being a much cherished aspect of academic freedom.
~By John Kenneth Galbraith ~
I'm a free market person, a free trader. But if we had a market in California, there would be competition.
~By Anna Eshoo ~
I think that there's a lot more freedom in the low budget, the independent films where, unfortunately, you don't have the money, necessarily, to get the orchestras in there to play a lot of stuff. But, you have a lot more freedom, very often.
~By Danny Elfman ~
We call our country home of the brave and land of the free, but it's not. We give a false portrayal of freedom. We're not free - if we were, we'd allow people their freedom.
~By Jesse Ventura ~
And it's one thing to give people freedom and something else to deny the rights of Christians to assert their faith in order to keep Hindus from feeling upset.
~By Pat Robertson ~
Political Freedom without economic equality is a pretense, a fraud, a lie; and the workers want no lying.
~By Mikhail Bakunin ~
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
~By George Orwell ~
As we consider the fast pace of scientific and technological progress in our modern world, we must not lose our moral compass and give way to 'free market eugenics'.
~By Sam Brownback ~
To say that any people are not fit for freedom, is to make poverty their choice, and to say they had rather be loaded with taxes than not.
~By Thomas Paine ~
I am in favor of complete freedom of information and of free access to the new communication tools, in particular the Internet.
~By Omar Bongo ~
Washington, not Jefferson, freed his slaves upon his death.
~By Stephen Ambrose ~
Every tyrant who has lived has believed in freedom for himself.
~By Elbert Hubbard ~
You'll be free or die!
~By Harriet Tubman ~
A man has free choice to the extent that he is rational.
~By Thomas Aquinas ~
The sovereign being is burdened with a servitude that crushes him, and the condition of free men is deliberate servility.
~By Georges Bataille ~
Pornography is human imagination in tense theatrical action; its violations are a protest against the violations of our freedom by nature.
~By Camille Paglia ~
The right to be let alone is indeed the beginning of all freedoms.
~By William O. Douglas ~
Free will carried many a soul to hell, but never a soul to heaven.
~By Charles Spurgeon ~
The mainstream media may have trouble resisting the temptation to declare that Karl Rove has been demoted, but the truth is quite the contrary. By giving up his role as deputy White House chief of staff, Rove has been freed to do what he does best: shape big issues and develop strategies to win elections.
~By Fred Barnes ~
The laughter of the aphorism is sometimes triumphant, but seldom carefree.
~By Mason Cooley ~
I'm a great believer that any tool that enhances communication has profound effects in terms of how people can learn from each other, and how they can achieve the kind of freedoms that they're interested in.
~By Bill Gates ~
Others indeed may talk, and write, and fight about liberty, and make an outward pretence to it; but the free-thinker alone is truly free.
~By George Berkeley ~
We ourselves can die with comfort and even with joy if we know that death is but a passport to blessedness, that this intellect, freed from all material chains, shall rise and shine.
~By Matthew Simpson ~
Adversity is the state in which man most easily becomes acquainted with himself, being especially free of admirers then.
~By John Wooden ~
I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.
~By Michelangelo ~
There's a lot of freedom for me living in L.A.
~By Deana Carter ~
Well, honey, I had the million dollar houses, I had the car, I had the horse, I had the barn; I had everything. Was I set free? I didn't even know what that meant.
~By Taylor Dayne ~
You might as well expect rivers to run backwards as any man born free to be contented penned up.
~By Chief Joseph ~
We do not consecrate the flag by punishing its desecration, for in doing so, we dilute the freedom this cherished emblem represents.
~By William J. Brennan ~
More and more do I see that only a successful revolution in India can break England's back forever and free Europe itself. It is not a national question concerning India any longer; it is purely international.
~By Agnes Smedley ~
He does not seem to me to be a free man who does not sometimes do nothing.
~By Marcus Tullius Cicero ~
Real freedom lies in wildness, not in civilization.
~By Charles Lindbergh ~
The men and women who serve in our military have won for us every hour we live in freedom, sometimes at the expense of the very hours of the lifetimes they had hoped to live.
~By Bob Riley ~
So the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund is out there preserving and fighting for, and sometimes winning and sometimes losing, the fight for First Amendment rights in comics and, more generally, for freedom of speech.
~By Neil Gaiman ~
I am very proud of this work because it is more about the meaning of the Easter Rising and its relationship to what this whole century has been about, people liberating themselves, freeing themselves.
~By Leon Uris ~
Ukraine is also successfully moving toward democracy and making progress expanding freedoms and rights to its people. We can help Ukraine achieve these goals and improve its economy by normalizing trade relations.
~By Vito Fossella ~
This freedom of political discussion on the highest level is something which Western civilization has in common with that of classical antiquity, but with no other.
~By Christopher Dawson ~
So, yes, we do celebrate America today because the majority will stand up and empower the American people to live that American Dream and to be part of making a better, freer, and safer world.
~By Robin Hayes ~
We have the largest economy and the strongest military in the world. Our core values of freedom and opportunity are ascendant around the globe.
~By Joe Lieberman ~
And for man to look upon himself as a capital good, even if it did not impair his freedom, may seem to debase him... by investing in themselves, people can enlarge the range of choice available to them. It is one way free men can enhance their welfare.
~By Theodore William Schultz ~
Their poverty secured their freedom, since our desires and our possessions are the strongest fetters of despotism.
~By Edward Gibbon ~
We believe that an Iraqi founding national assembly, freely elected, must decide the future of Iraq.
~By Jalal Talabani ~
My boyfriend and I live together, which means we don't have sex - ever. Now that the milk is free, we've both become lactose intolerant.
~By Margaret Cho ~
When you say "I wrote a program that crashed Windows," people just stare at you blankly and say "Hey, I got those with the system, for free."
~By Linus Torvalds ~
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.
~By Neil Gaiman ~
To stop terrorists before the strike, we must do three things: deny them entry into the country, curtail their freedom of action inside the country, and deprive them of material and moral support from within the country.
~By Richard Perle ~
It's just so much fun to make up characters, situations, and everything else about a story. I have so much freedom and flexibility to do whatever I want.
~By Margaret Haddix ~
The freedom now desired by many is not freedom to do and dare but freedom from care and worry.
~By James Truslow Adams ~
I became a real free market fanatic. I'm probably less so now than even two or three years ago.
~By Esther Dyson ~
Well, since I produce and pay for my own albums, it is the ultimate freedom.
~By George Duke ~
In a sense, words are encyclopedias of ignorance because they freeze perceptions at one moment in history and then insist we continue to use these frozen perceptions when we should be doing better.
~By Edward de Bono ~
We are a nation in which freedom is alive in the squares and streets, in the daily work of the communications media, in the open relationship between the governing and the governed.
~By Vicente Fox ~
The only freedom which deserves the name is that of pursuing our own good, in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs, or impede their efforts to obtain it.
~By John Stuart Mill ~
The 4th Amendment and the personal rights it secures have a long history. At the very core stands the right of a man to retreat into his own home and there be free from unreasonable governmental intrusion.
~By Potter Stewart ~
Now, then, in order to understand white supremacy we must dismiss the fallacious notion that white people can give anybody their freedom.
~By Stokely Carmichael ~
Two things are desired in order that intercourse may be had: First, that a minister or agent be allowed to reside at the capital. Second, that commerce between different countries be freely allowed.
~By Townsend Harris ~
America lives in the heart of every man everywhere who wishes to find a region where he will be free to work out his destiny as he chooses.
~By Woodrow Wilson ~
Only the educated are free.
~By Epictetus ~
I am neither a free-trade man, willing to collect all the money we have to raise by direct tax upon the people, nor am I willing to lay a tax simply for protection when the Government does not need the money.
~By Joseph E. Brown ~
I believe there should be no arbitrary date set for withdrawal and yet no permanent, unending deployment. No cut and run, yet measured progress in helping a people who want to be free without an illusion of overnight success.
~By Rick Renzi ~
That's part of American greatness, is discrimination. Yes, sir. Inequality, I think, breeds freedom and gives a man opportunity.
~By Lester Maddox ~
Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility. For the person who is unwilling to grow up, the person who does not want to carry is own weight, this is a frightening prospect.
~By Eleanor Roosevelt ~
One man's blasphemy doesn't override other people's free-speech rights, their freedom to publish, freedom of thought.
~By Dan Savage ~
I am a freeman, an American, a United States Senator, and a Democrat, in that order.
~By Lyndon B. Johnson ~
The small businessman is smart; he realizes there's no free lunch. On the other hand, he knows where to go to get a good inexpensive sandwich.
~By Adam Osborne ~
You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man's freedom.
~By Clarence Darrow ~
I needed freedom to really express myself. That's really what Justified is about.
~By Justin Timberlake ~
I loved the feeling of freedom in running, the fresh air, the feeling that the only person I'm competing with is me.
~By Wilma Rudolph ~
I stand for freedom of expression, doing what you believe in, and going after your dreams.
~By Madonna Ciccone ~
We believe that visa quotas should be lifted and people should visit anywhere they wish freely.
~By Mahmoud Ahmadinejad ~
The creative individual has the capacity to free himself from the web of social pressures in which the rest of us are caught. He is capable of questioning the assumptions that the rest of us accept.
~By John W. Gardner ~
There's always a question of duration, there's a question of who the orchestra is. No one is free to write what you want - you collaborate on a film score, and one of the good things is that someone else's work is motivating you.
~By Michael Nyman ~
I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will.
~By Charlotte Bronte ~
No freeman shall be debarred the use of arms.
~By Thomas Jefferson ~
However, we still have the problem of free travel and movement, since the Travel Documents issued by UNMIK as the substitute to passports, are not fully recognized yet by all countries.
~By Ibrahim Rugova ~
They won't break me because the desire for freedom, and the freedom of the Irish people, is in my heart. The day will dawn when all the people of Ireland will have the desire for freedom to show. It is then that we will see the rising of the moon.
~By Bobby Sands ~
The path towards a free society has not been simple. There are tragic and glorious pages in our history.
~By Vladimir Putin ~
To be free and to live a free life - that is the most beautiful thing there is.
~By Miguel Indurain ~
The government's objective, broadly expressed, is that all persons, whatever their level of ability, whether they live in town or country, have a right as citizens to a free education of the kind for which they are best fitted and to the fullest extent of their powers.
~By Peter Fraser ~
For centuries, the world has heard the oppressed, the downtrodden and the vulnerable cry out for their freedoms, for their rights and for a chance to emerge from the shadows of the tyranny and bloodshed that they had lived with.
~By Ginny B. Waite ~
Freedom is not an ideal, it is not even a protection, if it means nothing more than the freedom to stagnate.
~By Adlai E. Stevenson ~
Freedom of religion is a principle that is central to our Nation's Declaration of Independence. Congress has taken this positive step to protect our freedom to express allegiance to America's flag and the ideals it represents.
~By Ron Lewis ~
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?
~By Christine O'Donnell ~
The freelance writer is a man who is paid per piece or per word or perhaps.
~By Robert Benchley ~
When there is a huge force pressing down on freedoms, sub-cultures with more creativity and power are likely to form.
~By Joichi Ito ~
Do not worry about the incarnation of ideas. If you are a poet, your works will contain them without your knowledge'they will be both moral and national if you follow your inspiration freely.
~By Vissarion Belinsky ~
The Obama administration is an affront to every freedom-loving American,and a threat to every private sector job in this country.
~By Rick Perry ~
You know the actor John Garfield? In one movie he walked up to this train station, the ticket booth, and the guy says, 'Yes, where are you going?' And he says, 'I want a ticket to nowhere.' I thought: that's it. The freedom to do that. I want a ticket to nowhere.
~By Wayne Shorter ~
The core political values of our free society are so deeply embedded in our collective consciousness that only a few malcontents, lunatics generally, ever dare to threaten them.
~By John McCain ~
Both the American people and nations that censor the internet should understand that our government is committed to helping promote internet freedom.
~By Hillary Clinton ~
They definitely mean to maintain that the process called death is a mere severence of soul and body, and that the soul is freed rather than injured thereby.
~By Oliver Joseph Lodge ~
When radio stations started playing music the record companies started suing radio stations. They thought now that people could listen to music for free, who would want to buy a record in a record shop? But I think we all agree that radio stations are good stuff.
~By Niklas Zennstrom ~
Back a hundred years ago, especially around Woodrow Wilson, what happened in this country is we took freedom and we chopped it into pieces.
~By Ron Paul ~
We shall not yield to violence. We shall not be deprived of union freedoms. We shall never agree with sending people to prison for their convictions.
~By Lech Walesa ~
Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.
~By John F. Kennedy ~
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