Freedom Quotes About Character & Perspective – Page 8 | GloryQuotes

Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power.

John Adams

The independence of all political and other bother is a happiness.

Rutherford B. Hayes

The freedom of each individual can only be the freedom of all.

Friedrich Durrenmatt

When we talk of freedom and opportunity for all nations, the mocking paradoxes in our own society become so clear they can no longer be ignored.

Wendell Willkie

Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

Abraham Lincoln

Liberty must be limited in order to be possessed.

He who believes in freedom of the will has never loved and never hated.

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

A sincere and steadfast co-operation in promoting such a reconstruction of our political system as would provide for the permanent liberty and happiness of the United States.

For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.

Nelson Mandela

Civilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity.

Will Durant

Since the Revolution, eight generations of America's veterans have established an unbroken commitment to freedom.

Steve Buyer

The liberty of the individual is a necessary postulate of human progress.

Ernest Renan

There is no such thing as a little freedom. Either you are all free, or you are not free.

Walter Cronkite

Now, one of the most essential branches of English liberty is the freedom of one's house.

James Otis

A nice, easy place for freedom of speech to be eroded is comics, because comics are a natural target whenever an election comes up.

Neil Gaiman

It could draw from a greater reservoir of freedom. The irony could develop an even greater ease.

Elfriede Jelinek

A Buddha is someone who finds freedom in good fortune and bad.

What is freedom? Freedom is the right to choose: the right to create for oneself the alternatives of choice.

Archibald MacLeish

Both of us are known for probably at times regrettable streak of independence.

David Kay

This young century will be liberty's century.

Without freedom of the press, there can be no representative government.

Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

Freedom is the sure possession of those alone who have the courage to defend it.

Pericles

In this possibly terminal phase of human existence, democracy and freedom are more than just ideals to be valued - they may be essential to survival.

Noam Chomsky

Freedom is the only law which genius knows.

James Russell Lowell

Energy conservation is the foundation of energy independence.

Tom Allen

The U.S. cannot impose freedom, security, and unity in Iraq by force.

Peter DeFazio

The key to the survival of liberty in the modern world is the embrace of multiple identities.

Timothy Garton Ash

Life and liberty can be as much endangered from illegal methods used to convict those thought to be criminals as from the actual criminals themselves.

Earl Warren

The Americans combine the notions of religion and liberty so intimately in their minds, that it is impossible to make them conceive of one without the other.

Alexis de Tocqueville

The splendid empire of Charles the Fifth was erected upon the grave of liberty.

John Lothrop Motley

Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.

Rabindranath Tagore

Time misspent in youth is sometimes all the freedom one ever has.

Anita Brookner

If one is going to err, one should err on the side of liberty and freedom.

Kofi Annan

Whether in chains or in laurels, liberty knows nothing but victories.

Wendell Phillips

Freedom is the most contagious virus known to man.

Hubert H. Humphrey

I wish we would all remember that being American is not just about the freedom we have; it is about those who gave it to us.

Mike Huckabee

The cause of freedom is not the cause of a race or a sect, a party or a class-it is the cause of human kind, the very birthright of humanity.

Anna Julia Cooper

One of the unsung freedoms that go with a free press is the freedom not to read it.

Ferdinand Mount

The breath of an aristocrat is the death rattle of freedom.

Georg Buchner

I want freedom and I realize that the only way to get it is to quit breaking the law.

Gary Gilmore

Until you have lost your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was or what freedom really is.

Margaret Mitchell

We know the road to freedom has always been stalked by death.

Angela Davis

I believe in the freedom of God's sons and daughters.

Pat Buckley

Claiming for ourselves liberty of conscience, liberty to worship, we shall see to it that every other individual enjoys the same right.

James Larkin

The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in the insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning but without understanding.

Louis D. Brandeis

What is the essence of America? Finding and maintaining that perfect, delicate balance between freedom "to" and freedom "from."

Marilyn vos Savant

I remember that during the period leading up to independence in Angola in 1975, I was the only correspondent there at all for three months.

Ryszard Kapuscinski

No one can enjoy freedom without trembling.

Emile M. Cioran