The price of freedom is eternal vigilance. Don't store unnecessary data, keep an eye on what's happening, and don't take unnecessary risks.
~By Chris Bell ~
Praise out of season, or tactlessly bestowed, can freeze the heart as much as blame.
~By Pearl S. Buck ~
All people hope Islam helps everything in life. Islam will make jobs. Islam will make freedom. Islam will make everything.
~By Ahmed Ali ~
Most importantly, nothing has happened to change my conviction that freedom and the love of liberty remain the essential defining attributes of our national character as a people.
~By Ibrahim Babangida ~
Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.
~By John Milton ~
Institutions - government, churches, industries, and the like - have properly no other function than to contribute to human freedom; and in so far as they fail, on the whole, to perform this function, they are wrong and need reconstruction.
~By Charles Horton Cooley ~
My desire to curtail undue freedom of speech extends only to such public areas as restaurants, airports, streets, hotel lobbies, parks, and department stores. Verbal exchanges between consenting adults in private are as of little interest to me as they probably are to them.
~By Fran Lebowitz ~
What I'm going to be given I gather is not the key to the city, which in many cities is the case. It's the freedom medal, and for me freedom has always been associated traditionally within the city.
~By George Woodcock ~
Finally, people are starting to recognize freedom and peace do have a cause, they do have a price.
~By Mark Foley ~
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 ~
I will continue to express the fact I am for a drug-free sport and always will be.
~By Marion Jones ~
The Democratic Party will never desert the freedoms of our people under the guise of pretending to protect them.
~By Emanuel Celler ~
Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.
~By Storm Jameson ~
I really feel that the talent I have is acting. Freedom and the possibility of play-that is what I like to have.
~By Jacqueline Bisset ~
I have a healthy body, free of the chemicals that once controlled it.
~By Lorna Luft ~
There are incalculable resources in the human spirit, once it has been set free.
~By Hubert H. Humphrey ~
This man is freed from servile bands, Of hope to rise, or fear to fall; Lord of himself, though not of lands, And leaving nothing, yet hath all.
~By Lord Byron ~
If you're not ready to die for it, put the word 'freedom' out of your vocabulary.
~By Malcolm X ~
Free men are the strongest men.
~By Wendell Willkie ~
137 years later, Memorial Day remains one of America's most cherished patriotic observances. The spirit of this day has not changed - it remains a day to honor those who died defending our freedom and democracy.
~By Doc Hastings ~
Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.
~By Emma Lazarus ~
He who believes in freedom of the will has never loved and never hated.
~By Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach ~
I wanted to give money to people like this woman so that they would be free from the moneylenders to sell their product at the price which the markets gave them - which was much higher than what the trader was giving them.
~By Muhammad Yunus ~
According to the Gorean way of looking at things a taste of the slave ring is thought to be occasionally beneficial to all women, even the exalted free woman.
~By John Norman ~
American movies and music deliver themes of freedom, innocence, and power that appeal to others - partly because America itself was put together out of a multiplicity of national traditions.
~By Todd Gitlin ~
Since stepping down as laboratory director in 1999, I have devoted an increasing fraction of my time to international issues. I am involved with energy, environment, and sustainability issues, particularly as they involve new energy sources free of greenhouse gases.
~By Burton Richter ~
Vote: the instrument and symbol of a freeman's power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country.
~By Ambrose Bierce ~
I confess freely to you, I could never look long upon a monkey, without very mortifying reflections.
~By William Congreve ~
I am somebody who... - I'm not saying I'm perfect, but I need that freedom, that ability to make mistakes out there. Because there's a fine line between making a mistake or being brilliant.
~By Tiffeny Milbrett ~
I am a hidden meaning made to defy. The grasp of words, and walk away With free will and destiny. As living, revolutionary clay.
~By Muhammad Iqbal ~
The proletariat uses the State not in the interests of freedom but in order to hold down its adversaries, and as soon as it becomes possible to speak of freedom the State as such ceases to exist.
~By Friedrich Engels ~
I think we're struggling with trying to redefine various positions at this point in history. To allow freedom for women, freedom for men, freedom from those sharply defined gender roles.
~By Fred Ward ~
No human being, however great, or powerful, was ever so free as a fish.
~By John Ruskin ~
It is the people who scream the loudest about America and Freedom who see to be the most intolerant for a differing point of view.
~By Rosanne Cash ~
These rare senses and powers of reasoning were given to be used freely, but not audaciously, to discover, not to pervert the truth.
~By William John Wills ~
I love the freedom of movement that my phone gives me. That has definitely transformed my life.
~By Richard Branson ~
There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere, and many of us will have to pass through the valley of the shadow of death again and again before we reach the mountaintop of our desires.
~By Nelson Mandela ~
We are all different. Yet we are all God's children. We are all united behind this country and the common cause of freedom, justice, fairness, and equality. That is what unites us.
~By Barbara Boxer ~
Today we are engaged in a deadly global struggle for those who would intimidate, torture, and murder people for exercising the most basic freedoms. If we are to win this struggle and spread those freedoms, we must keep our own moral compass pointed in a true direction.
~By Barack Obama ~
The nice thing about the world that I've been able to inhabit for the last couple of years is that I'm given a lot of freedom. Not all artists really get that.
~By Brad Paisley ~
Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either lead into freedom or constitute a proof for its existence.
~By Hannah Arendt ~
I was the kid who always liked to take the ball down to the school even in my free time, kick it against the wall, juggle it in the front yard and so it was kind of a perpetual state of playing soccer for me.
~By Brandi Chastain ~
In the kingdom of consumption the citizen is king. A democratic monarchy: equality before consumption, fraternity in consumption, and freedom through consumption.
~By Raoul Vaneigem ~
A person needs a little madness, or else they never dare cut the rope and be free.
~By Nikos Kazantzakis ~
I think it's like music for the sake of music, and a lot of the words stem from liking music a lot, wanting to be a good band and having a good sense of humour, and living in a situation where we're free to pretty much do what we want.
~By Jon Fishman ~
I think there's some connection between absolute discipline and absolute freedom.
~By Alan Rickman ~
Our elections are free, it's in the results where eventually we pay.
~By Bill Stern ~
I can honestly say that I am happier now than I have ever been. For the first time in my life I feel free.
~By LaToya Jackson ~
If a man carries his horse out of a slave State into a free one, be does not lose his property interest in him; but if he carries his slave into a free State, the law makes him free.
~By Benjamin F. Wade ~
It's important to me that I should be free to express myself.
~By George Michael ~
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.
~By Ahmed Ben Bella ~
I defend both the freedom of expression and society's right to counter it. I must pay the price for differing. It is the natural way of things.
~By Naguib Mahfouz ~
Children also have artistic ability, and there is wisdom in there having it! The more helpless they are, the more instructive are the examples they furnish us; and they must be preserved free of corruption from an early age.
~By Paul Klee ~
When one makes a Revolution, one cannot mark time; one must always go forward - or go back. He who now talks about the "freedom of the press" goes backward, and halts our headlong course towards Socialism.
~By Vladimir Lenin ~
Even though we know freedom as an idea we're not really as free as we think we are.
~By Richard O'Brien ~
If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
~By John F. Kennedy ~
We in the United States should be all the more thankful for the freedom and religious tolerance we enjoy. And we should always remember the lessons learned from the Holocaust, in hopes we stay vigilant against such inhumanity now and in the future.
~By Charlie Dent ~
We can be thankful to a friend for a few acres, or a little money; and yet for the freedom and command of the whole earth, and for the great benefits of our being, our life, health, and reason, we look upon ourselves as under no obligation.
~By Lucius Annaeus Seneca ~
If I just do it, it will take less time than telling someone what I'm thinking, and have them free associate, and then come back to me and I'll hate it and I'll have to redo it.
~By Isaac Mizrahi ~
The interpretation of our reality through patterns not our own, serves only to make us ever more unknown, ever less free, ever more solitary.
~By Gabriel Garcia Marquez ~
Deficits. Most people of knowledge say it's the biggest single problem facing the economic free world.
~By David Hartman ~
Freedom of speech is always under attack by Fascist mentality, which exists in all parts of the world, unfortunately.
~By Lawrence Ferlinghetti ~
Today, as we look back on the history of our nation and take note of how far we have come as a people, we are reminded that we owe a great debt to those who fought valiantly for the freedoms that we easily take for granted.
~By Sam Brownback ~
And when they do spin out of control there are important ramifications that affect America, not just its direct national interest but its broader interests as a nation which has thought of itself as a beacon to other nations, of freedom, liberty, democracy, whatever.
~By John Pomfret ~
Only very slowly and late have men come to realize that unless freedom is universal it is only extended privilege.
~By John Edward Christopher Hill ~
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 goal of the EU is to form a region of freedom, security and justice. Freedom in this connection cannot be just the freedom of the strong, but it must be combined with fraternity and equality.
~By Tarja Halonen ~
They call them terrorists, I call them freedom fighters.
~By Louis Farrakhan ~
I love to swim in the nude and roam around the house in the nude. You're just as free as a bird!
~By Bettie Page ~
It is from weakness that people reach for dictators and concentrated government power. Only the strong can be free. And only the productive can be strong.
~By Wendell Willkie ~
Nature provides a free lunch, but only if we control our appetites.
~By William Ruckelshaus ~
If you love someone, set them free. If they come back they're yours; if they don't they never were.
~By Richard Bach ~
Bisexuality means I am free and I am as likely to want to love a woman as I am likely to want to love a man, and what about that? Isn't that what freedom implies?
~By June Jordan ~
The sovereign being is burdened with a servitude that crushes him, and the condition of free men is deliberate servility.
~By Georges Bataille ~
I've had trouble being in relationships and writing. This has been a real problem for me. I don't know if it's because I'm not free to fantasize or create these fantasy things about other people.
~By Lucinda Williams ~
We are all bound to the throne of the Supreme Being by a flexible chain which restrains without enslaving us. The most wonderful aspect of the universal scheme of things is the action of free beings under divine guidance.
~By Joseph de Maistre ~
Concern should drive us into action and not into a depression. No man is free who cannot control himself.
~By Pythagoras ~
The poet's spoken discourse often depends on a mystique, on the spiritual freedom that finds itself enslaved on earth.
~By Salvatore Quasimodo ~
Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.
~By Thomas Jefferson ~
Like many businessmen of genius he learned that free competition was wasteful, monopoly efficient. And so he simply set about achieving that efficient monopoly.
~By Mario Puzo ~
Under my contract with Capitol, I have complete freedom to do just about anything I want in my own way.
~By Les Baxter ~
It seems to me the most important issue in the LGBT community is the right to be queer-the right to be free of the heterosexual assumption.
~By Jasmine Guy ~
If we'd had another carefree 70's, I'd have been dead. It was a little too carefree, you know? I don't know how carefree they were for me, I think I was worried then, I can't remember what about.
~By Randy Newman ~
When it comes to software, I much prefer free software, because I have very seldom seen a program that has worked well enough for my needs, and having sources available can be a life-saver.
~By Linus Torvalds ~
We experience moments absolutely free from worry. These brief respites are called panic.
~By Cullen Hightower ~
Talk about national interests: When we went in with Operation Iraqi Freedom, some of our allies, Turkey, for example, would not let us through. How much trouble did that cause us, because we were not able to go into Iraq through Turkey?
~By Roger Wicker ~
You are ugly when you love her, you are beautiful and fresh, vital and free, modern and poetic when you don't... you are more beautiful as an orphan than as your mother's son.
~By Witold Gombrowicz ~
The thing you fear most has no power. Your fear of it is what has the power. Facing the truth really will set you free.
~By Oprah Winfrey ~
When decorum is repression, the only dignity free men have is to speak out.
~By Abbie Hoffman ~
It will free man from the remaining chains, the chains of gravity which still tie him to this planet.
~By Wernher von Braun ~
We should seek international support for our mutual objectives abroad, in promoting freedom, democracy, respect for human rights, and also the elimination of weapons of mass destruction.
~By Robert Menendez ~
As long as every generation rises to its challenges and stands up in defense of liberty - as Americans have done in the past and as our men and women continue to do today - our nation will remain free and strong.
~By Doc Hastings ~
People do still cheer for the President. And some of the military audiences are more likely to cheer than others. I have seen him speak lately in front of groups like Freedom House, where the applause was a long time coming.
~By Gwen Ifill ~
I am a free lover. I have an inalienable, constitutional and natural right to love whom I may, to love as long or short a period as I can; to change that love every day if I please.
~By Victoria Woodhull ~
I believe firmly that in making ethical decisions, man has the prerogative of true freedom of choice.
~By Corliss Lamont ~
From a viable economy to the full funding of Headstart, from a clean environment to true equality for women, from a strong military to a commitment to racial brotherhood, from schools that are honored to streets free of excessive violence.
~By Paul Tsongas ~
Besides all this, if you are idle, and take to bad courses, you will hurt those of your brethren who are slaves, and do all in your power to prevent their being free.
~By Jupiter Hammon ~
It is capitalist America that produced the modern independent woman. Never in history have women had more freedom of choice in regard to dress, behavior, career, and sexual orientation.
~By Camille Paglia ~
You freeze with the number of opportunities given to you and just decide to do nothing at all.
~By Sam Mendes ~
If I could have convinced more slaves that they were slaves, I could have freed thousands more.
~By Harriet Tubman ~
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