Freedom Quotes About Character & Perspective – Page 3 | GloryQuotes

It is essential that all Americans take the time to honor and remember those individuals who gave their lives in defense of our liberty.

Charles Schumer

Victorious living does not mean freedom from temptation, nor does it mean freedom from mistakes.

E. Stanley Jones

In every man there is an instinctive and passionate reaction if his person or liberty is attacked.

Arthur Keith

Freedom of the press is not an end in itself but a means to the end of achieving a free society.

Felix Frankfurter

The contest for ages has been to rescue liberty from the grasp of executive power.

Daniel Webster

I believe the Patriot Act strikes the right balance needed to protect our freedom and security.

Bill Owens

But since independence, Gabon is one of the few countries in Central Africa that enjoys peace and stability.

Omar Bongo

Whenever men take the law into their own hands, the loser is the law. And when the law loses, freedom languishes.

Robert Kennedy

America has never seen itself as a national state like all others, but rather as an experiment in human freedom and democracy.

Brent Scowcroft

We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

If society fits you comfortably enough, you call it freedom.

As the fly bangs against the window attempting freedom while the door stands open, so we bang against death ignoring heaven.

Douglas Horton

The internal effects of a mutable policy poisons the blessings of liberty itself.

Their poverty secured their freedom, since our desires and our possessions are the strongest fetters of despotism.

Edward Gibbon

As I said, men value their independence in a weird way, above practically everything.

George Weinberg

The sweltering summer of the Negro's legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

To say that any people are not fit for freedom, is to make poverty their choice, and to say they had rather be loaded with taxes than not.

The legal difference between the sit-ins and the Freedom Riders was significant.

Constance Baker Motley

As long as the reason of man continues fallible, and he is at liberty to exercise it, different opinions will be formed.

The ideology of capitalism makes us all into connoisseurs of liberty - of the indefinite expansion of possibility.

Into every soul, however purged and fenced, evil appears to have as much freedom of entrance as God Himself.

George A. Smith

I'm not a drug addict. My wild period wasn't about drugs; it was about sexual freedom.

Freedom and opportunity are precious gifts and the purpose of our politics is to expand them, for all our people.

Ed Miliband

Individual freedom is a Jewish idea, but it's one of the functions of Christianity to make this idea universal.

Michael Novak

A resilient people cherishing liberty and equality and the rule of law will endure.

Nick Rahall

It is his restraint that is honorable to a person, not their liberty.

Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty.

We remain in Iraq because we know that sometimes liberty needs some nursing before it can grow on its own.

Virginia Foxx

No slavery can be abolished without a double emancipation, and the master will benefit by freedom more than the freed-man.

It took us in this country 11 years to get from the Declaration of Independence to the Constitution.

Mitch McConnell

Many of America's and New York's sons and daughters are around the world fighting for the freedoms that the Statue of Liberty stands for.

Michael Bloomberg

Perfect freedom is as necessary to the health and vigor of commerce as it is to the health and vigor of citizenship.

Patrick Henry

In our pledge every day, we pledge one Nation under God with liberty and justice for all.

Patrick J. Kennedy

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.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Liberty is not the unique right of Americans or even Westerners, but is mankind's right.

Virginia Foxx

It's important to every American that the law protect his or her basic liberty.

Stephen Breyer

Only free men can negotiate; prisoners cannot enter into contracts. Your freedom and mine cannot be separated.

Nelson Mandela

We must provide all kinds of freedom, personal and economic, to all Iraqis. I will fight for that.

Jalal Talabani

The State is the altar of political freedom and, like the religious altar, it is maintained for the purpose of human sacrifice.

Emma Goldman

A well governed appetite is the greater part of liberty.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

The liberty of the individual must be thus far limited; he must not make himself a nuisance to other people.

John Stuart Mill

Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.

Abraham Lincoln

It is clear that not in one thing alone, but in many ways equality and freedom of speech are a good thing.

Herodotus

As long as a government can come and shoot you, you can't jump on the Internet to freedom.

Esther Dyson

All government, of course, is against liberty.

Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.

Frederick Douglass

The American flag is the most recognized symbol of freedom and democracy in the world.

Virginia Foxx

In health there is freedom. Health is the first of all liberties.

Henri Frederic Amiel