Freedom Quotes About Character & Perspective – Page 7 | GloryQuotes

I am not an anti to anything which will bring freedom to my class.

Mary Harris Jones

The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission.

John F. Kennedy

Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable, and others extremely difficult.

May we think of freedom, not as the right to do as we please, but as the opportunity to do what is right.

Peter Marshall

The political core of any movement for freedom in the society has to have the political imperative to protect free speech.

Bell Hooks

Originality is independence, not rebellion; it is sincerity, not antagonism.

George Henry Lewes

Novelists have always had complete freedom to pretty much tell their story any way they saw fit. And that's what I'm trying to do.

Quentin Tarantino

I will never understand people who think that the way to show their righteous opposition to sexual freedom is to write letters full of filthy words.

Anna Quindlen

We must do our utmost to preserve our British ally's strategic independence from Europe.

Richard Perle

When others stood idly by, you and your families gave your all, in defence of a risen people and in pursuit of Irish freedom and unity.

Gerry Adams

You, the foreign media, have been the companion of my people in its long and painful journey to freedom.

Corazon Aquino

I shall stand for freedom of thought and expression in a place where it has been trampled and penalized.

Jalal Talabani

As soon as laws are necessary for men, they are no longer fit for freedom.

Pythagoras

Freedom is hammered out on the anvil of discussion, dissent, and debate.

Hubert H. Humphrey

Man's liberty ends, and it ought to end, when that liberty becomes the curse of its neighbors.

Frederic William Farrar

Pleasure and freedom from pain, are the only things desirable as ends.

John Stuart Mill

I do not think we should be trying to save our freedom by killing the safeguards that keep our liberties.

Eliot Engel

To start with, for example this year, 2004, is the bicentennial of Haitian independence.

Edwidge Danticat

If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost.

I want to emphasize the fact that the independence of Kosovo should and will be recognized.

Ibrahim Rugova

Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.

Hannah Arendt

Freedom means the opportunity to be what we never thought we would be.

Daniel J. Boorstin

What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.

Salman Rushdie

Others indeed may talk, and write, and fight about liberty, and make an outward pretence to it; but the free-thinker alone is truly free.

George Berkeley

Giving up even an ounce of precious freedom is a very serious thing to do.

Charles Schumer

Freedom of choice is more to be treasured than any possession earth can give.

David O. McKay

I grew up like a neglected weed - ignorant of liberty, having no experience of it.

Harriet Tubman

I don't think the only place to fight for freedom is in the halls of Congress.

Malcolm Wallop

Old age, calm, expanded, broad with the haughty breadth of the universe, old age flowing free with the delicious near-by freedom of death.

Edith Wharton

Toleration and liberty are the foundations of a great republic.

Frank Lloyd Wright

While even pornography is protected as free speech, the courts have consciously undermined religious speech and freedom of religion for years.

Ernest Istook

How does the Meadow flower its bloom unfold? Because the lovely little flower is free down to its root, and in that freedom bold.

William Wordsworth

Emancipation from the bondage of the soil is no freedom for the tree.

Rabindranath Tagore

I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.

Simone de Beauvoir

Bush will keep up that policy that gives the United State the role of promoting freedom in the world.

Silvio Berlusconi

Hero-worship is strongest where there is least regard for human freedom.

Herbert Spencer

What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy?

Mohandas Gandhi

You have freedom when you're easy in your harness.

Death is the liberator of him whom freedom cannot release, the physician of him whom medicine cannot cure, and the comforter of him whom time cannot console.

Charles Caleb Colton

Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos.

Will Durant

Our ideals of freedom, set forth and realized in our Constitution, are our greatest export to the world.

Robert Byrd

The claim that the World Trade Center and the Pentagon were attacked because fundamentalists hate our prosperity and freedom is a ridiculous lie.

L. Neil Smith

Freedom only for the members of the government, only for the members of the Party - though they are quite numerous - is no freedom at all.

Rosa Luxemburg

Liberty, not communism, is the most contagious force in the world.

Earl Warren

Ruin is the destination toward which all men rush, each pursuing his own best interest in a society that believes in the freedom of the commons.

Garrett Hardin

We clearly realize that freedom's inner kingdom cannot be touched by exterior attacks.

Vernon Howard

It is easy to take liberty for granted, when you have never had it taken from you.

Dick Cheney

The bourgeois prefers comfort to pleasure, convenience to liberty, and a pleasant temperature to the deathly inner consuming fire.

Hermann Hesse