Freedom Quotes About Character & Perspective – Page 2 | GloryQuotes

You don't have to be a man to fight for freedom. All you have to do is to be an intelligent human being.

Malcolm X

The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty.

Liberty is the right to do what I like; license, the right to do what you like.

Bertrand Russell

There is no dignity quite so impressive, and no one independence quite so important, as living within your means.

Calvin Coolidge

A culture without property, or in which creators can't get paid, is anarchy, not freedom.

Lawrence Lessig

The intense happiness of our union is derived in a high degree from the perfect freedom with which we each follow and declare our own impressions.

The media bring our wars home, but only rarely have they been able to do it in complete freedom.

Bruce Jackson

The information I requested under the Freedom of Information Act has been blocked for two years.

Sibel Edmonds

To me, the American Dream is being able to follow your own personal calling. To be able to do what you want to do is incredible freedom.

That's why I like fast film. It gives you more freedom to light more naturally.

Conrad Hall

Perhaps the enemies of liberty are such only because they judge it by its loud voice.

Liberty, freedom and democracy are very fuzzy words, but human rights is very specific.

Joichi Ito

Free people, remember this maxim: we may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lost.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

Is anarchism possible? The failure of attempts to attain freedom does not mean the cause is lost.

Johann Most

None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but licence.

John Milton

Americans are so enamored of equality that they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom.

Alexis de Tocqueville

The general interest of the masses might take the place of the insight of genius if it were allowed freedom of action.

The framers of our Constitution meant we were to have freedom of religion, not freedom from religion.

Billy Graham

Every year thousands of Americans mistakenly refer to Cinco de Mayo as Mexico's Independence Day.

Joe Baca

A free press can, of course, be good or bad, but, most certainly without freedom, the press will never be anything but bad.

There must be freedom for all to live, to think, to worship, no book, no avenue must be closed.

James Larkin

What then is freedom? The power to live as one wishes.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Freedom is not an ideal, it is not even a protection, if it means nothing more than the freedom to stagnate.

Adlai E. Stevenson

Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty; power is ever stealing from the many to the few.

Wendell Phillips

Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.

When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon.

Firearms are second only to the Constitution in importance; they are the peoples' liberty's teeth.

George Washington

The loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or imagined, from abroad.

People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.

Soren Kierkegaard

The liberty of the individual is no gift of civilization. It was greatest before there was any civilization.

The beauty of independence, departure, actions that rely on themselves.

We are living in the excesses of freedom. Just take a look at 42nd Street an Broadway.

Will Durant

Mad, adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence.

You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.

Malcolm X

Man loves liberty, even if he does not know that he loves it. He is driven by it and flees from where it does not exist.

Experience teaches us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes are beneficent.

Louis D. Brandeis

The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.

If you think Independence Day is America's defining holiday, think again. Thanksgiving deserves that title, hands-down.

Tony Snow

You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on having both at once.

Robert A. Heinlein

So long as you do not achieve social liberty, whatever freedom is provided by the law is of no avail to you.

B. R. Ambedkar

No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.

My grandfather, in 1848, had fled from Germany to find political freedom in the United States.

Emanuel Celler

To force a man to pay for the violation of his own liberty is indeed an addition of insult to injury.

Benjamin Tucker

If a film is very clever and well-written, that's what gives you freedom as a director.

Patrice Leconte

Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.

If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.

George Washington

Freedom has cost too much blood and agony to be relinquished at the cheap price of rhetoric.

It is better to lose everything you have to keep the balance of justice level, than to live a life of petty privilege devoid of true freedom.

Bryant H. McGill