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 ~
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 ~
Books that distribute things... with as daring a freedom as we use in dreams, put us on our feet again.
~By Marsilio Ficino ~
Charles was very intent to use his years as Prince of Wales to make his mark while he still had freedom of maneuver that he wouldn't have as King. The first subject he really went for was architecture. It made an impact.
~By Anthony Holden ~
Fashion is an imposition, a reign on freedom.
~By Golda Meir ~
Since the ousting and capture of Saddam Hussein by U.S. forces, civil rights and personal freedoms have been restored in Iraq, as well as equal rights to all, not just to Saddam's entourage of terrorists.
~By Jim Gerlach ~
I am optimistic that peace can be achieved in the region because I believe that every society on earth can be free and that if freedom comes to the Middle East, there can be peace.
~By Natan Sharansky ~
I believe in freedom of speech, but I believe we should also have the right to comment on freedom of speech.
~By Stockwell Day ~
Rock and roll music - the music of freedom frightens people and unleashes all manner of conservative defense mechanisms.
~By Salman Rushdie ~
For you who no longer posses it, freedom is everything, for us who do, it is merely an illusion.
~By Emile M. Cioran ~
For science must breathe the oxygen of freedom.
~By John Charles Polanyi ~
The freedom of all is essential to my freedom.
~By Mikhail Bakunin ~
The fundamental sense of freedom is freedom from chains, from imprisonment, from enslavement by others. The rest is extension of this sense, or else metaphor.
~By Isaiah Berlin ~
Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty - his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.
~By Aldous Huxley ~
Freedom is the oxygen of the soul.
~By Moshe Dayan ~
For more than two centuries, the defenders of liberty have put their lives on the line, because they have known that we cannot take our freedoms for granted.
~By Virgil Goode ~
That freedom that Picasso afforded himself, to be an artist in a huge number of ways, seems to be a huge psychological liberation.
~By Anish Kapoor ~
Freedom is always and exclusively freedom for the one who thinks differently.
~By Rosa Luxemburg ~
The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask.
~By Jim Morrison ~
Coercion may prevent many transgressions; but it robs even actions which are legal of a part of their beauty. Freedom may lead to many transgressions, but it lends even to vices a less ignoble form.
~By Wilhelm von Humboldt ~
I just kept it real and had the freedom to do what I want. It's not designed for any age group. It's not made for radio. There are no edits. The whole album contains explicit lyrics but that's because you need it.
~By Vanilla Ice ~
Real freedom is having nothing. I was freer when I didn't have a cent.
~By Mike Tyson ~
To Koreans on the other side, we care about your freedom.
~By Kim Y. Sam ~
Take young researchers, put them together in virtual seclusion, give them an unprecedented degree of freedom and turn up the pressure by fostering competitiveness.
~By James D. Watson ~
There are 4 billion cell phones in use today. Many of them are in the hands of market vendors, rickshaw drivers, and others who've historically lacked access to education and opportunity. Information networks have become a great leveler, and we should use them together to help lift people out of poverty and give them a freedom from want.
~By Hillary Clinton ~
Carry out the republican principle of universal suffrage, or strike it from your banners and substitute 'Freedom and Power to one half of society, and Submission and Slavery to the other.'
~By Ernestine Rose ~
Strong, generous, and confident, she has nobly served mankind. Beware how you trifle with your marvellous inheritance, this great land of ordered liberty, for if we stumble and fall freedom and civilization everywhere will go down in ruin.
~By Henry Cabot Lodge ~
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.
~By Howard Nemerov ~
Now we understand much more clearly. why people from all over the world want to come to New York and to America. It's called freedom.
~By Rudy Giuliani ~
How often I have found that we grow to maturity not by doing what we like, but by doing what we should. How true it is that not every 'should' is a compulsion, and not every 'like' is a high morality and true freedom.
~By Karl Rahner ~
Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.
~By Thomas Paine ~
Freedom is not something that one people can bestow on another as a gift. Thy claim it as their own and none can keep it from them.
~By Kwame Nkrumah ~
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.
~By Ahmed Ben Bella ~
I believe in trying to get a balance between individual freedom on the one hand and social responsibility on the other.
~By Chris Patten ~
Let us rise in the moral power of womanhood; and give utterance to the voice of outraged mercy, and insulted justice, and eternal truth, and mighty love and holy freedom.
~By Maria W. Chapman ~
No man can given anybody his freedom.
~By Stokely Carmichael ~
One of the unsung freedoms that go with a free press is the freedom not to read it.
~By Ferdinand Mount ~
Freedom is living without chains.
~By Indra Devi ~
As we look forward to freedom, the shining city on the hill and the best days of America lying ahead, it is the men and women in uniform who protect, defend and make us proud to whom we should look and give thanks every night.
~By Robin Hayes ~
I believe in full freedom for Christians of all denominations.
~By Vladimir Zhirinovsky ~
I was 37 when my father died-and I no longer had any freedom of choice over what I would do with the rest of my life.
~By Paul Getty ~
The genius of the American system is that through freedom we have created extraordinary results from plain old ordinary people.
~By Phil Gramm ~
We all have the right of freedom of speech under the First Amendment. We all don't have to agree with one another on our opinions. Everyone in my circle, that I run around with, we all feel the same about God, country, integrity and character.
~By Luke Scott ~
I would hope to inspire in my listeners a feeling of freedom - of speech, thought and political activity.
~By John Hall ~
The road to freedom must be uphill, even if it is arduous and frustrating.
~By Andrew Goodman ~
In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from.
~By Peter Ustinov ~
We must guard against the overreaching hand of big government trying to take away our freedom. And we must always protect the environment in a manner consistent with our values.
~By Steve Forbes ~
The United Nations is designed to make possible lasting freedom and independence for all its members.
~By Harry S. Truman ~
The breath of an aristocrat is the death rattle of freedom.
~By Georg Buchner ~
It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature and everlasting beauty of monotony.
~By Benjamin Britten ~
If technology has finally caught up with individual liberty, why would anyone who loves freedom want to rethink that?
~By Matt Drudge ~
Freedom without limits is just a word.
~By Terry Prachett ~
Organized religion provides a model of the way all organizations, from the state down to the village garden club, end a price in terms of a member's freedom of thought and action.
~By Robert Shea ~
Putting out my album on my own label has been a great experience for me. It's been very inspiring. It's like a new start for me and having all this creative freedom is so liberating and exciting.
~By Melanie Chisholm ~
All that money stuff was so strange; all it ever meant to me was freedom from worry. I'm happier now than I've ever been but I still wish I had that money.
~By Dana Plato ~
How absurd men are! They never use the liberties they have, they demand those they do not have. They have freedom of thought, they demand freedom of speech.
~By Soren Kierkegaard ~
Many Americans don't have an understanding of the freedoms they regularly enjoy.
~By Dave Anderson ~
Under my contract with Capitol, I have complete freedom to do just about anything I want in my own way.
~By Les Baxter ~
I do not want art for a few any more than education for a few, or freedom for a few.
~By William Morris ~
The Constitution provides for freedom of religion, not freedom from religion.
~By Lamar S. Smith ~
I would say that the war correspondent gets more drinks, more girls, better pay, and greater freedom than the soldier, but at this stage of the game, having the freedom to choose his spot and being allowed to be a coward and not be executed for it is his torture.
~By Robert Capa ~
Obedience is detachment from the self. This is the most radical detachment of all. But what is the self? The self is the principle of reason and responsibility in us. It is the root of freedom, it is what makes us men.
~By Bede Griffiths ~
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
~By George Orwell ~
I believe in a religion that believes in freedom. Any time I have to accept a religion that won't let me fight a battle for my people, I say to hell with that religion.
~By Malcolm X ~
And Marx spoke of the fact that socialism will be the kingdom of freedom, where man realizes himself in a way that humankind has never seen before. This was an inspiring body of literature to read.
~By Albert Maltz ~
There are those, I know, who will reply that the liberation of humanity, the freedom of man and mind, is nothing but a dream. They are right. It is. It is the American Dream.
~By Archibald MacLeish ~
We all would like to see a brighter future for Haiti, and I hope this conference will serve to explore many views. Respect for human rights, freedom, and the rule of law must be established in the poorest nation in our hemisphere.
~By Eliot Engel ~
Similarly, today, we do not know what will happen as we wage the War on Terror. We do know that we can count on the strong support from our closest ally and friend in the world in winning this war to secure our freedoms and the freedoms for all peoples throughout the world.
~By Kit Bond ~
Responsibility is the price of freedom.
~By Elbert Hubbard ~
And I have been able to give freedom and life which was acknowledged in the ecstasy of walking hand in hand across the most beautiful bridge of the world, the cables enclosing us and pulling us upward in such a dance as I have never walked and never can walk with another.
~By Hart Crane ~
Freedom lies in being bold.
~By Robert Frost ~
But there is some way in which poets believe that and this is dangerous, too believe that their calling gives them a certain freedom. A certain freedom to live in a free way.
~By Peter Davison ~
Power in defense of freedom is greater than power in behalf of tyranny and oppression.
~By Malcolm X ~
The United States, for a French citizen, is a friend, an ally, to whom we owe, along with most Europeans, our freedom.
~By Jean-Pierre Raffarin ~
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.
~By Neil Gaiman ~
It should be clear by now that my focus here is not freedom of speech or the press. This freedom is all too often an exaggeration. At the very least, blind references to freedom of speech or the press serve as a distraction from the critical examination of other communications policies.
~By Mark Lloyd ~
There is nothing wrong with intellectual differences flowing from freedom of thought as long as such differences remain confined to intellectual debates.
~By Pervez Musharraf ~
I invested, and I protected myself, so I enjoy that freedom.
~By Thomas Haden Church ~
When we are unwilling to draw clear moral lines between free societies and fear societies, when we are unwilling to call the former good and the latter evil, we will not be able to advance the cause of peace because peace cannot be disconnected from freedom.
~By Natan Sharansky ~
As soon as laws are necessary for men, they are no longer fit for freedom.
~By Pythagoras ~
We're quite lucky that we've got political freedoms. We should be using them.
~By Mark Thomas ~
In times such as these, people should recognize that evil knows no borders, knows no limits and knows no compassion. Those around the globe that value freedom must continue to persevere even in the darkest of times.
~By Michael Burgess ~
The search for human freedom can never be complete without freedom for women.
~By Betty Ford ~
While it may take generations of nurturing, nations founded on and grounded in freedom will eventually overcome and prosper. Once free, folks rarely accept anything less, and that includes Iraqis.
~By Trent Lott ~
Love and freedom are vital to the creation and upbringing of a child.
~By Sylvia Pankhurst ~
When I was teaching in the 1960s in Boston, there was a great deal of hope in the air. Martin Luther King Jr. was alive, Malcolm X was alive; great, great leaders were emerging from the southern freedom movement.
~By Jonathan Kozol ~
There is a requirement to ensure the withdrawal takes place in a civilized manner. We will be able to show the world we deserve independence and freedom.
~By Mahmoud Abbas ~
The freedom of each individual can only be the freedom of all.
~By Friedrich Durrenmatt ~
If you want total security, go to prison. There you're fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking... is freedom.
~By Dwight D. Eisenhower ~
The abortion license has not brought freedom and security to women. Rather, it has ushered in a new era of irresponsibility toward women and children, one that now begins before birth.
~By Robert Casey ~
The work of art is a scream of freedom.
~By Christo ~
These men were religious when the spirit of religion was buried in forms and ceremonies, and when the priesthood had armed itself with the civil powers to put down all opposition, and suppress all freedom, intellectual, civil, and religious.
~By Ethan A. Hitchcock ~
Mum used to hide love letters from my boyfriends and put me down. Now I understand that she was a Polish immigrant forced to settle in Chicago. She was jealous of the freedom life gave me.
~By Ruby Wax ~
Freedom prospers when religion is vibrant and the rule of law under God is acknowledged.
~By Ronald Reagan ~
Since the Revolution, eight generations of America's veterans have established an unbroken commitment to freedom.
~By Steve Buyer ~
Is Walt turning over in his grave? A man named Joe Roth runs Disney right now-he gave me the go-ahead and total freedom to do whatever I wanted to do.
~By Tim Robbins ~
This is an exciting time. I believe we stand at the edge of a new age - a Golden Age - of freedom that will rival any of the great eras of world history because it will be the entire world itself that is changing.
~By Joe Lieberman ~
It requires greater courage to preserve inner freedom, to move on in one's inward journey into new realms, than to stand defiantly for outer freedom. It is often easier to play the martyr, as it is to be rash in battle.
~By Rollo May ~
We must face the fact that the preservation of individual freedom is incompatible with a full satisfaction of our views of distributive justice.
~By Friedrich August von Hayek ~
I do most of my business on that dirty Internet that you were just talking about, where I find there is a lot of freedom to report exactly what I want.
~By Matt Drudge ~
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