Top 1200 Freedom Liberty Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

A simple equation exists between freedom and numbers: the more people, the less freedom.

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

I think artists need the freedom to fail and I gave myself that freedom.

Freedom always deals with 'the possible'; this gives freedom its great flexibility, its fascination, and its dangers.

The worst type of freedom we are suffering from in modern times is the freedom to lead an immoral life.

Freedom of speech encompasses precisely the freedom to annoy, to ridicule, and to offend.

Freedom doesn't mean aimlessness. We can't just sleepwalk through life.... Freedom demands structure.

In the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.

External freedom has probably never existed, but neither have I ever known anyone who knew inner freedom.

Women, like men, ought to have their years so glutted with freedom that they hate the very idea of freedom.

Freedom of India will demonstrate to all the exploited races of the earth that their freedom is very near.

Our goal was not freedom. Freedom was the necessary prerequisite to get to equality.

A crucial difference between lite libertarians and the right kind is that to the former, the idea of liberty is propositional - a deracinated principle, unmoored from the realities of history, hierarchy, biology, tradition, culture, values. Conversely, the paleolibertarian grasps that ordered liberty has a civilizational dimension, stripped of which the libertarian non-aggression axiom, by which we all must live, cannot endure.

The law for religious freedom... [has]put down the aristocracy of the clergy and restored to the citizen the freedom of the mind.

We believe in freedom, freedom for the people of each country to follow their destiny without external interference.

Surely the freedom of women must mean more to us than the freedom of pimps.

What we have to remember is that not everything is under our control. If people are free in any meaningful sense of the word, that means they are at liberty to foul up their lives as much as make something grand of them. That's a gamble we all take. That's the risk of liberty. Nobody wants others to screw up their lives, but each must be free to do so for themselves.

Women, like men, ought to have their youth so glutted with freedom they hate the very idea of freedom.

I'm tired of the ayatollahs of the right wing. We're fighting for freedom in Iraq. We're going to fight for freedom in America.

Freedom is not the absence of obligation or restraint, but the freedom of movement within healthy, chosen parameters.

I would like to think that in America, as time goes on, you gain freedom, not lose freedom.

When you drop all your ideas, fantasies and projections about who you are and what freedom is and remain completely empty, this is freedom.

Sexual freedom is about choice. It's the freedom to say no as well as yes.

I can understand wanting to have millions of dollars; there's a certain freedom, meaningful freedom, that comes with that.

You cannot legislate the poor into freedom by legislating the wealthy out of freedom.

The search for human freedom can never be complete without freedom for women.

I am so happy that I didn't have children. Well, you know, because I've had freedom. And I've so loved my freedom.

Freedom of expression is the matrix, the indispensable condition, of nearly every other form of freedom.

Most Americans pay lip service to the idea of freedom, but can't handle real freedom.

Freedom which in no other land will thrive, Freedom an English subject's sole prerogative.

Adolescents need freedom to choose, but not so much freedom that they cannot, in fact, make a choice.

A man who believes in freedom will do anything under the sun to acquire, or preserve his freedom.

Freedom is not the ability to do whatever you want. Freedom is the strength of character to do what is good, true, noble, and right.

Jesus resolved the false opposition between obedience and freedom and opened the path to freedom

Freedom, especially a woman's freedom, is a conquest to be made, not a gift to be received. It isn't granted. It must be taken.

Freedom to do what one likes is really bondage, while being free to do what one must, what is right, is real freedom.

As freedom is the only safeguard of governments, so are order and moderation generally necessary to preserve freedom.

If there is a choice between absolute safety and freedom, then freedom must always prevail.

For the average American, freedom of speech is simply the freedom to repeat what everyone else is saying and no more.

For Dicey, writing in 1885, and for me reading him some seventy years later, the rule of law still had a very English, or at least Anglo-Saxon, feel to it. It was later, through Hayek's masterpieces "The Constitution of Liberty" and "Law, Legislation and Liberty" that I really came to think this principle as having wider application.

Loneliness is a prerequisite for freedom. Freedom depends on the ability to reflect, and reflection can only begin when one is alone.

Authentic freedom is actually the freedom of knowing who you are, why you are here, your purpose in life and where you are going when you leave here.

I preach freedom of the mind through freedom of the body; women, for example - out of the prison of corsets.

Freedom to preach was first gained, dragging in its train freedom to print.

Our freedom of speech is freedom or death, We got to fight the powers that be!

Economic freedom is ... an indispensable means toward the achievement of political freedom.

Figuring things out for yourself is the only freedom anyone really has. Use that freedom.

I was a prisoner, but I always felt free because I was not frightened So for me real freedom is freedom from fear.

The idea of freedom is inspiring. But what does it mean? If you are free in a political sense but have no food, what's that? The freedom to starve?

Freedom is not won on the battlefields. The chance for freedom is won there. The final battle is won or lost in our hearts and minds.

I let go. Lost in oblivion. Dark and silent and complete. I found freedom. Losing all hope was freedom.

There comes a time, in the history of Nations when fear and forgetfulness cause a nation to hesitate, to waver and perhaps even to succumb. When that time comes those who love liberty must rise to the occasion. Will you? Will you lovers of liberty, will you rise to the occasion?

We are a nation built on principles of freedom, and high on the list of freedoms is freedom of religious expression.

Believe in all the good things you keep inside There is no freedom in life without freedom of mind.

Freedom that ignores the transcendent difference between good and evil ends in the denial of freedom itself.

Russians have a new freedom, but as long as they don't express that freedom on a public platform.

At the heart of the First Amendment is the recognition of the fundamental importance of the free flow of ideas and opinions on matters of public interest and concern. The freedom to speak one's mind is not only an aspect of individual liberty - and thus a good unto itself - but also is essential to the common quest for truth and the vitality of society as a whole. We have therefore been particularly vigilant to ensure that individual expressions of ideas remain free from governmentally imposed sanctions.

Freedom is never easily won, but once established, freedom lasts, spreads and chokes out tyranny.

People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.

What is national freedom if not a people’s inner freedom to cultivate its abilities along the beaten path of its history?