Whatever the immediate gains and losses, the dangers to our safety arising from political suppression are always greater than the dangers to the safety resulting from political freedom. Suppression is always foolish. Freedom is always wise.
~By Alexander Meiklejohn ~
Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
~By Hannah Arendt ~
There is something akin to freedom in having a lover who has no control over you, except that which he gains by kindness and attachment.
~By Harriet Ann Jacobs ~
The freedom of every artist is essential.
~By Christo ~
American and Israel share a special bond. Our relationship is unique among all nations. Like America, Israel is a strong democracy, a symbol of freedom, and an oasis of liberty, a home to the oppressed and persecuted.
~By William J. Clinton ~
It is to TV that I owe my freedom from bondage of the Latin lover roles. Television came along and gave me parts to chew on. It gave me wings as an actor.
~By Ricardo Montalban ~
Communists have always played an active role in the fight by colonial countries for their freedom, because the short-term objects of Communism would always correspond with the long-term objects of freedom movements.
~By Nelson Mandela ~
Ruby inherited the Perl philosophy of having more than one way to do the same thing. I inherited that philosophy from Larry Wall, who is my hero actually. I want to make Ruby users free. I want to give them the freedom to choose.
~By Yukihiro Matsumoto ~
I had spent many years pursuing excellence, because that is what classical music is all about... Now it was dedicated to freedom, and that was far more important.
~By Nina Simone ~
I have always been a firm believer in the longstanding American principle of having the right to bear arms and I will remain committed to see that this freedom is not infringed upon, revoked, or limited in any way.
~By Jeff Miller ~
If you allow one single germ, one single seed of slavery to remain in the soil of America... that germ will spring up, that noxious weed will thrive, and again stifle the growth, wither the leaves, blast the flowers and poison the fair fruits of freedom.
~By Ernestine L. Rose ~
Unfortunately, the media, which are not at all reluctant to act in their own self-interest, have succeeded in equating reform in the public mind with further restrictions on just about everyone else's freedom of political speech.
~By James L. Buckley ~
What our men and women in uniform are doing is providing for the Iraqi people and other surrounding nations the opportunity to see, to taste and to experience the democracy that equals freedom and ultimately justice.
~By Robin Hayes ~
We cannot expect that all nations will adopt like systems, for conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.
~By John F. Kennedy ~
When we say that the persistence of competition is ensured by fate, we mean that individual freedom is so guaranteed. The one thing to which fate binds us is liberty.
~By John Bates Clark ~
Freedom requires no effort to enjoy but requires heroic efforts to preserve.
~By Richard G. Scott ~
We talk about freedoms for African-Americans but unless you have more than one option politically, how free are you?
~By Lynn Swann ~
Only people who have been allowed to practise freedom can have the grown-up look in their eyes.
~By E. M. Forster ~
If you ask me to summarise our mission, I would put it this way: We were a military regime that sought to lay the foundations for freedom and liberty in a complex society.
~By Ibrahim Babangida ~
Being big and famous doesn't get you more freedom, it gets you less.
~By Robert Wyatt ~
In many ways, my attachment to human freedom was completely compatible with my right to live freely as a homosexual.
~By Andrew Sullivan ~
Wherever it is resisted, slaver dies away and freedom grows.
~By Henry Charles Carey ~
That profound night freedom was agreeable and exciting.
~By Carmen Laforet ~
In our excessive involvement in the affairs of other countries, we are not only living off our assets and denying our own people the proper enjoyment of their resources; we are also denying the world the example of a free society enjoying its freedom to the fullest.
~By J. William Fulbright ~
Every human has four endowments- self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom... The power to choose, to respond, to change.
~By Stephen Covey ~
A mere forty years ago, beach volleyball was just beginning. No bureaucrat would have invented it, and that's what freedom is all about.
~By Newt Gingrich ~
The road to freedom lies not through mysteries or occult performances, but through the intelligent use of natural forces and laws.
~By Ernest Holmes ~
The elections in Iraq are a victory for freedom and the Iraqi people, and a blow to the transnational network of terrorists who have tried to prevent this day from happening.
~By James Talent ~
The Latin musical tradition is very rich and gives the singer a lot of freedom to explore a range of.
~By Ednita Nazario ~
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 ~
Believe me, the drug of freedom is universally potent.
~By Natan Sharansky ~
Freedom is the recognition of necessity.
~By Friedrich Engels ~
When you're writing for newspapers you have all these parameters. You can't swear, you have to use short paragraphs, all that. If you stay within those parameters, you have lots of freedom because you're writing for the next day.
~By Chuck Klosterman ~
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 ~
I can remember when Democrats believed that it was the duty of America to fight for freedom over tyranny.
~By Zell Miller ~
We have to recognize that the freedom of the individual has to be protected not only from the power of the state, but even more so from economic and societal power.
~By Gustav Heinemann ~
European films were what it was about for me - the sensations I needed, the depth, the storytelling, the characters, the directors, and the freedom that you can't really find in American films.
~By Charlotte Rampling ~
A man is either free or he is not. There cannot be any apprenticeship for freedom.
~By Amiri Baraka ~
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 ~
I made a comfortable living for several years. I invested, and I protected myself, so I enjoy that freedom.
~By Thomas Haden Church ~
America is a model of force and freedom and moderation - with all the coarseness and rudeness of its people.
~By Lord Byron ~
The transfer is a monumental occasion as the Iraqi people take control of their government and their future and forge ahead with creating a society governed by the tenets of life, liberty and freedom.
~By Jim Gerlach ~
It is clear that not in one thing alone, but in many ways equality and freedom of speech are a good thing.
~By Herodotus ~
The best road to progress is freedom's road.
~By John F. Kennedy ~
The legal difference between the sit-ins and the Freedom Riders was significant.
~By Constance Baker Motley ~
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 ~
Books were my pass to personal freedom. I learned to read at age three, and soon discovered there was a whole world to conquer that went beyond our farm in Mississippi.
~By Oprah Winfrey ~
For science must breathe the oxygen of freedom.
~By John Charles Polanyi ~
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 ~
Real freedom lies in wildness, not in civilization.
~By Charles Lindbergh ~
You cannot expect so much freedom in a land of 1.3 billion people.
~By Alex Chiu ~
When truth is no longer free, freedom is no longer real: the truths of the police are the truths of today.
~By Jacques Prevert ~
For the freedoms our founding fathers not only dreamed about, but made into reality. It is that same pursuit of freedom today that is helping to make our world a safer place.
~By John M. McHugh ~
Revolution! The people howls and cries, Freedom, that's what we're needing! We've needed it for centuries, our arteries are bleeding. The stage is shaking, the audience rock. The whole thing is over by nine o'clock.
~By Kurt Tucholsky ~
I am just absolutely convinced that the best formula for giving us peace and preserving the American way of life is freedom, limited government, and minding our own business overseas.
~By Ron Paul ~
It is not the simple statement of facts that ushers in freedom; it is the constant repetition of them that has this liberating effect. Tolerance is the result not of enlightenment, but of boredom.
~By Quentin Crisp ~
We've got to understand that the whole nature of the way American democracy guards its freedom has been changed.
~By John Ashcroft ~
Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure.
~By Bertrand Russell ~
One of the unsung freedoms that go with a free press is the freedom not to read it.
~By Ferdinand Mount ~
I believe our flag is more than just cloth and ink. It is a universally recognized symbol that stands for liberty, and freedom. It is the history of our nation, and it's marked by the blood of those who died defending it.
~By John Thune ~
I believe the Patriot Act strikes the right balance needed to protect our freedom and security.
~By Bill Owens ~
Perhaps the fact that we have seen millions voting themselves into complete dependence on a tyrant has made our generation understand that to choose one's government is not necessarily to secure freedom.
~By Friedrich August von Hayek ~
In my youth I stressed freedom, and in my old age I stress order. I have made the great discovery that liberty is a product of order.
~By Will Durant ~
The freedom now desired by many is not freedom to do and dare but freedom from care and worry.
~By James Truslow Adams ~
The case for freedom, the case for our constitutional principles the case for our heritage has to be made anew in each generation. The work of freedom is never done.
~By Anthony Kennedy ~
Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.
~By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ~
There are necessary evils. Money is an important thing in terms of representing freedom in our world. And now I have a daughter to think about. It's really the first time I've thought about the future and what it could be.
~By Johnny Depp ~
My philosophy is, don't take no for an answer and be willing to sacrifice your entire project for freedom.
~By Tim Robbins ~
The liberties of our country, the freedom of our civil constitution, are worth defending against all hazards: And it is our duty to defend them against all attacks.
~By Samuel Adams ~
What we have is two important values in conflict: freedom of speech and our desire for healthy campaigns in a healthy democracy. You can't have both.
~By Dick Gephardt ~
Freedom in art, freedom in society, this is the double goal towards which all consistent and logical minds must strive.
~By Victor Hugo ~
The people of the Middle East share the desire for freedom. We have an opportunity - and an obligation - to help them turn this desire into reality.
~By Condoleezza Rice ~
Real freedom is having nothing. I was freer when I didn't have a cent.
~By Mike Tyson ~
I am a lover of truth, a worshipper of freedom, a celebrant at the altar of language and purity and tolerance.
~By Stephen Fry ~
What happened on September 11 compels us to focus on who we are as Americans, what we stand for, what really matters in our lives - family, friends, faith and freedom.
~By Bob Taft ~
Responsibility is the price of freedom.
~By Elbert Hubbard ~
The plan shows that the twenty million people in the German democratic Republic and in the democratic sector of Berlin think only of peace, and that they are working for freedom and peaceful prosperity.
~By Walter Ulbricht ~
There are two freedoms - the false, where a man is free to do what he likes; the true, where he is free to do what he ought.
~By Charles Kingsley ~
My grandfather, in 1848, had fled from Germany to find political freedom in the United States.
~By Emanuel Celler ~
Those who today still feel a sense of impotence can do something: they can support Amnesty International. They can help it to stand up for freedom and justice.
~By Peter Benenson ~
A filmmaker has almost the same freedom as a novelist has when he buys himself some paper.
~By Stanley Kubrick ~
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.
~By Michael Bloomberg ~
Human beings the world over need freedom and security that they may be able to realize their full potential.
~By Aung San Suu Kyi ~
I made my own assessment of my life, and I began to live it. That was freedom.
~By Fernando Flores ~
Men who are scandalized at the lack of freedom in Russia do not ask themselves how real is liberty among the poor, the weak, and the ignorant in capitalist society.
~By Emily Greene Balch ~
Democracy is constructed like an edifice, freedom by freedom, right by right, until it reaches its snapping point.
~By Abdoulaye Wade ~
Freedom and justice cannot be parceled out in pieces to suit political convenience. I don't believe you can stand for freedom for one group of people and deny it to others.
~By Coretta Scott King ~
This war is being played in the realm of public opinion and has dire consequences for our soldiers in Iraq, the future of our country, and freedom around the world.
~By John Doolittle ~
Nobody and nothing will stop Russia on the road to strengthening democracy and ensuring human rights and freedoms.
~By Vladimir Putin ~
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 ~
As precious as life itself is our heritage of individual freedom, for man's free agency is a God-given gift.
~By David O. McKay ~
None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but licence.
~By John Milton ~
I am a Republican, a black, dyed in the wool Republican, and I never intend to belong to any other party than the party of freedom and progress.
~By Frederick Douglass ~
As freedom-loving people across the globe hope for an end to tyranny, we will never forget the enormous suffering of the Holocaust.
~By Bob Beauprez ~
The liberties and freedoms which we hold dear and we recognize and cherish and respect guide the way we gather information in the United States.
~By John Ashcroft ~
If happiness truly consisted in physical ease and freedom from care, then the happiest individual would not be either a man or a woman; it would be, I think, an American cow.
~By William Lyon Phelps ~
We can demonstrate, by our own example, how E.U. freedoms, including the freedom of nationals of other E.U. countries to come and work here, has enabled us to expand our economy.
~By John Bruton ~
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 ~
Sept. 11 represented a terrorist attack aimed at destroying everything that America stands for - our freedoms and our way of life.
~By John Whitehead ~
I do think that our freedoms are at risk.
~By Clarence Thomas ~
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