Freedom Quotes About Character & Perspective – Page 10 | GloryQuotes

You cannot expect so much freedom in a land of 1.3 billion people.

Alex Chiu

Liberty is the right to do what the law permits.

Charles de Montesquieu

Do people really want liberty, equality, fraternity? Is it not some manner of speaking?

Krzysztof Kieslowski

I love the freedom that the narrative form provides.

Sidney Sheldon

True freedom is where an individual's thoughts and actions are in alignment with that which is true, correct, and of honor - no matter the personal price.

Bryant H. McGill

Liberty is not merely a privilege to be conferred; it is a habit to be acquired.

David Lloyd George

When liberty is taken away by force it can be restored by force. When it is relinquished voluntarily by default it can never be recovered.

Dorothy Thompson

The secret of freedom lies in educating people, whereas the secret of tyranny is in keeping them ignorant.

Maximilien Robespierre

The more liberty you give away the more you will have.

Robert Green Ingersoll

The sovereignty of one's self over one's self is called Liberty.

Albert Pike

Liberty and Union, now and forever, one and inseparable.

Daniel Webster

Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have.

Harry Emerson Fosdick

I pledge allegiance to the Christian flag, and to the Savior, for whose Kingdom it stands, one Savior, crucified, risen, and coming again, with life and liberty for all who believe.

It's no accident that my first novel was called Americana. This was a private declaration of independence, a statement of my intention to use the whole picture, the whole culture.

Don DeLillo

Struggle is a never ending process. Freedom is never really won, you earn it and win it in every generation.

Coretta Scott King

The river flows at its own sweet will, but the flood is bound in the two banks. If it were not thus bound, its freedom would be wasted.

Vinoba Bhave

The same liberty that protects me also protects members of the Mafia.

Barbara Amiel

Curious people who have become accustomed to think that one cannot sustain the moral of the army without giving it the freedom to shed blood from time to time.

Moshe Sharett

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

Friedrich August von Hayek

Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.

Viktor E. Frankl

True liberty consists only in the power of doing what we ought to will, and in not being constrained to do what we ought not to will.

Jonathan Edwards

We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home.

Edward R. Murrow

A liberty subject to law and subordinate to the common welfare.

Bainbridge Colby

Let us form one body, one heart, and defend to the last warrior our country, our homes, our liberty, and the graves of our fathers.

Tecumseh

Ultimately, America's answer to the intolerant man is diversity, the very diversity which our heritage of religious freedom has inspired.

Robert Kennedy

Perhaps a hundred people assembled one evening, May 15, 1876, at the time when the country was celebrating the hundredth anniversary of its political independence.

Felix Adler

The end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom. For in all the states of created beings capable of law, where there is no law, there is no freedom.

John Locke

Property is surely a right of mankind as real as liberty.

John Adams

Liberty is the right of doing whatever the laws permit.

Charles de Secondat

But on the other side I am very glad that I can at least enjoy some freedom.

Mordechai Vanunu

In many ways, my attachment to human freedom was completely compatible with my right to live freely as a homosexual.

Andrew Sullivan

The road to freedom lies not through mysteries or occult performances, but through the intelligent use of natural forces and laws.

Ernest Holmes

The enemies of freedom do not argue; they shout and they shoot.

William Ralph Inge

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.

Jesse Ventura

Laws and constitutions ought to be weighed... to constitute that which is most conducing to the establishment of justice and liberty.

Algernon Sydney

To keep that absolute freedom we cannot be obliged to anyone.

Christo

Liberty exists in proportion to wholesome restraint.

Daniel Webster

We have built our State on the freedom of personal adventure.

John Grierson

We gain freedom when we have paid the full price.

Rabindranath Tagore

I think the girl who is able to earn her own living and pay her own way should be as happy as anybody on earth. The sense of independence and security is very sweet.

Susan B. Anthony

In fact, a fundamental interdependence exists between the personal right to liberty and the personal right to property.

Potter Stewart

Freedom is always and exclusively freedom for the one who thinks differently.

Rosa Luxemburg

When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near.

Will Durant

At one level you're condemned to the voice you have. But within those confines, you have a certain amount of freedom to range among your possible voices.

David Guterson

A free America... means just this: individual freedom for all, rich or poor, or else this system of government we call democracy is only an expedient to enslave man to the machine and make him like it.

Frank Lloyd Wright

The great danger for family life, in the midst of any society whose idols are pleasure, comfort and independence, lies in the fact that people close their hearts and become selfish.

Pope John Paul II

Freedom is the right to live as we wish.

Civil liberty is the status of the man who is guaranteed by law and civil institutions the exclusive employment of all his own powers for his own welfare.

William Graham Sumner