Freedom Quotes About Character & Perspective – Page 5 | GloryQuotes

I think that there is a relatively small number of people who are pushing for independence in Taiwan.

Fred Thompson

NAFTA and GATT have about as much to do with free trade as the Patriot Act has to do with liberty.

Michael Badnarik

Atlas was permitted the opinion that he was at liberty, if he wished, to drop the Earth and creep away; but this opinion was all that he was permitted.

The link between my experience as an entrepreneur and that of a politician is all in one word: freedom.

Silvio Berlusconi

I am in favor of complete freedom of information and of free access to the new communication tools, in particular the Internet.

Omar Bongo

The real cure for what ails our health care system today is less government and more freedom.

Steve Forbes

Anything outside marriage seems like freedom and excitement.

Jeanette Winterson

Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.

A filmmaker has almost the same freedom as a novelist has when he buys himself some paper.

Stanley Kubrick

The proper balance between individual liberty and central authority is a very ancient problem.

Arthur Keith

Analysis does not set out to make pathological reactions impossible, but to give the patient's ego freedom to decide one way or another.

The increased presence of Muslims in Italy and in Europe is directly proportional to our loss of freedom.

Oriana Fallaci

A majority in all parties do, I think, want to see local government recover its old vigour and independence.

Ferdinand Mount

Throughout the day no time for memorandums now. Go ahead! Liberty and independence forever.

Davy Crockett

The ancients understood the regulation of power better than the regulation of liberty.

Edward Dahlberg

As precious as life itself is our heritage of individual freedom, for man's free agency is a God-given gift.

David O. McKay

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.

Naguib Mahfouz

The freedom to make a fortune on the stock exchange has been made to sound more alluring than freedom of speech.

John Mortimer

We who officially value freedom of speech above life itself seem to have nothing to talk about but the weather.

Barbara Ehrenreich

Our country's founders cherished liberty, not democracy.

Ron Paul

Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better.

Every tyrant who has lived has believed in freedom for himself.

If they want to hang me, let them. And on the scaffold I will shout Freedom for the working class!

Mother Jones

We do not commonly see in a tax a diminution of freedom, and yet it clearly is one.

Herbert Spencer

The South resented giving the Afro-American his freedom, the ballot box and the Civil Rights Law.

Ida B. Wells

Mickey Mouse is, to me, a symbol of independence. He was a means to an end.

Denounce me for advocating freedom if you can, and I will bear your curse with a better resignation.

Victoria Woodhull

I dare not exercise personal liberty if it infringes on the liberty of others.

While democracy must have its organization and controls, its vital breath is individual liberty.

Charles Evans Hughes

I've always had a strong feeling for the Statue of Liberty, because it became the statue of my personal liberty.

David Antin

Back a hundred years ago, especially around Woodrow Wilson, what happened in this country is we took freedom and we chopped it into pieces.

Ron Paul

You don't have freedom because you are a hyphenated American; you have freedom because you are an individual, and that should be protected.

Ron Paul

A mere forty years ago, beach volleyball was just beginning. No bureaucrat would have invented it, and that's what freedom is all about.

Newt Gingrich

The best way to enhance freedom in other lands is to demonstrate here that our democratic system is worthy of emulation.

Jimmy Carter

When the people contend for their liberty, they seldom get anything by their victory but new masters.

George Savile

True human goodness, in all its purity and freedom, can come to the fore only when its recipient has no power.

Milan Kundera

Freedom is man's capacity to take a hand in his own development. It is our capacity to mold ourselves.

Rollo May

Nothing is so wearing as the possession or abuse of liberty.

Emile M. Cioran

Freedom granted only when it is known beforehand that its effects will be beneficial is not freedom.

Friedrich August von Hayek

It is difficult to discern a serious threat to religious liberty from a room of silent, thoughtful schoolchildren.

Sandra Day O'Connor

When complaints are freely heard, deeply considered and speedily reformed, then is the utmost bound of civil liberty attained that wise men look for.

John Milton

The problem of freedom in America is that of maintaining a competition of ideas, and you do not achieve that by silencing one brand of idea.

Max Lerner

Our homeland is the whole world. Our law is liberty. We have but one thought, revolution in our hearts.

Dario Fo

Liberty cannot be preserved without general knowledge among the people.

John Adams

Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.

John Milton

Our country may be likened to a new house. We lack many things, but we possess the most precious of all - liberty!

James Monroe

The best road to progress is freedom's road.

John F. Kennedy

People demand freedom only when they have no power.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow