Freedom Quotes About Character & Perspective – Page 4 | GloryQuotes

The freedom to be an individual is the essence of America.

Marilyn vos Savant

Liberty cannot be established without morality, nor morality without faith.

Alexis de Tocqueville

Freedom is fragile and must be protected. To sacrifice it, even as a temporary measure, is to betray it.

Germaine Greer

We have been taught to regard a representative of the people as a sentinel on the watch-tower of liberty.

Daniel Webster

There is only one cure for the evils which newly acquired freedom produces, and that cure is freedom.

Thomas B. Macaulay

President Bush in his inaugural address talked about bringing freedom to countries that don't have it. He didn't specify how.

Barbara Boxer

It is my living sentiment, and by the blessing of God it shall be my dying sentiment, independence now and independence forever.

Daniel Webster

The man or country that fights priestcraft and priests is to my mind striking deeper for freedom than can be struck anywhere.

George Meredith

We believe, as our founders did, that 'the pursuit of happiness' depends upon individual liberty; and individual liberty requires limited government.

Paul Ryan

The desire for liberty has also made itself felt as struggle against domestic tyranny or arbitrary rule.

Emily Greene Balch

To deprive a man of his natural liberty and to deny to him the ordinary amenities of life is worse then starving the body; it is starvation of the soul, the dweller in the body.

Mohandas Gandhi

The Ego is partly free. partly determined, and reaches fuller freedom by approaching the Individual who is most free: God.

Muhammad Iqbal

Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Men of New England, I hold you to the doctrines of liberty which ye inherit from your Puritan forefathers.

Caleb Cushing

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.

Frederick Douglass

You can't put democracy and freedom back into a box.

Here, also, has been evolved the form of government consistent with the largest possible civil liberty.

Josiah Strong

Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally destructive.

Theodore Roosevelt

Liberty: One of Imagination's most precious possessions.

The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave.

Thomas Jefferson

The independence of the United States is not only more precious to ourselves but to the world than any single possession.

Henry Cabot Lodge

Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.

Make your educational laws strict and your criminal ones can be gentle; but if you leave youth its liberty you will have to dig dungeons for ages.

Michel de Montaigne

A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue.

Daniel Webster

Without culture, and the relative freedom it implies, society, even when perfect, is but a jungle. This is why any authentic creation is a gift to the future.

The more decisions that you are forced to make alone, the more you are aware of your freedom to choose.

Thornton Wilder

Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master.

Sallust

I've got personal views on the '60s. You can't have freedom without paying the price for it.

James Lovelock

The greatest blessing of our democracy is freedom. But in the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.

Bernard Baruch

Whether we are New Dealer, Old Dealer, Liberty Leaguer or Red, whether we agree or not, we still have the right to think and speak how we feel.

Lyndon B. Johnson

We're giving our freedoms away. The American experiment was about freedom. Freedom to be stupid, freedom to fail, freedom to succeed.

Glenn Beck

In the progress of personality, first comes a declaration of independence, then a recognition of interdependence.

Henry Van Dyke

Liberty will not descend to a people; a people must raise themselves to liberty; it is a blessing that must be earned before it can be enjoyed.

Charles Caleb Colton

Our economic freedom is founded on individual property rights; government should never be permitted to take those away.

Ernest Istook

The statue of Freedom has not been cast yet, the furnace is hot, we can all still burn our fingers.

Georg Buchner

The closer Iraq approaches freedom and democracy, the more impediments and barriers the terrorists will erect.

Howard Coble

For what is liberty but the unhampered translation of will into act?

Cyril Connolly

Freedom from the desire for an answer is essential to the understanding of a problem.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

The freedom of thought and expression is one of the most sacred rights in this country.

Eliot Engel

Liberty is not the power of doing what we like, but the right to do what we ought.

Lord Acton

I think this society suffers so much from too much freedom, too many rights that allow people to be irresponsible.

Boyd Rice

Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.

Milton Friedman

Freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought.

Pope John Paul II

I remain optimistic. What we've seen in Europe and the rest of the world is that freedom has a much stronger attraction than radical fundamentalism.

Gijs de Vries

The old Romans all wished to have a king over them because they had not yet tasted the sweetness of freedom.

Titus Livius

Private property was the original source of freedom. It still is its main ballpark.

Walter Lippmann

If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.

Noam Chomsky

Grace is the beauty of form under the influence of freedom.

Friedrich Schiller