Top 1200 Independence And Freedom Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

Nothing is more precious than independence and liberty.

You measure a democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists.

I think I had more freedom when I began making films. I did not know what could not be done. I was naive. I did what I wanted to. As you gain awareness, you start losing freedom.

I believe that freedom of speech and freedom of religion go hand-in-hand in America.

An individual should not have too much freedom. A nation should have absolute freedom.

I believe in the acceptance of personal responsibility, freedom of choice, and the British Empire, which took freedom and the rule of law to countries which would never have known it otherwise.

I draw a distinction between freedom of the internet and freedom via the internet. In the first case, it's making sure cyberspace is not over regulated and people can say what they want without fear of repercussions. But that's different from this freedom via the internet notion, which is often touted by all sorts of conservatives and neoconservatives who want young people in the Middle East and elsewhere in the world to use Facebook and Twitter and then go oppose their governments.

The early American knew that freedom was nothing more than the absence of external restraint on behavior; the government could not give you freedom, it could only take it away.

The independence of the economic sphere was a tenet of faith with Liberalism.

I always had a very strong sense of independence.

My government has promised to comprehensively respect the independence of the judiciary.

We are people who lived in absence of freedom. We know how precious it is. I want to give all these people their freedom, and the opportunity to live has humans. These are my friends, my family, and my fellow North Koreans.

True joy is independence of circumstances - Choose to rejoice!

You need to learn independence. You have to be independent - it builds character.

There's an independence to surfing, it's just you and the ocean. There aren't a bunch of rules.

The framers of our Constitution meant we were to have freedom of religion, not freedom from religion.

Description of man: dependence, longing for independence, need.

If money is your hope for independence you will never have it

We will energize America by achieving energy independence

People who think they are free eventually end up slaves to their own desires, and those who give their freedom away to the only One you can trust with that freedom eventually get it back.

Ambulances always come with clouds of smoke. And then they disappear in a whistle. But what they bring is fear. Not freedom. Feardom is what they bring. And they bring fire and smoke. Oh, my nerves are bad tonight, yes, bad. I fear freedom. I, above all, fear the freedom that is above all feardom.

What constitutes the bulwark of our own liberty and independence?

The one cool thing about being underground is that it gives you such freedom. You have to be so on top of it, releasing singles all the time, doing videos all the time, and I don't know if I'm ready to give up that freedom.

What I'm going to be given I gather is not the key to the city, which in many cities is the case. It's the freedom medal, and for me freedom has always been associated traditionally within the city.

What freedom men and women could have, were they not constantly tricked and trapped and enslaved and tortured by their sexuality! The only drawback in that freedom is that without it one would not be a human. One would be a monster.

Republicans talk loudly about freedom and yet are against a women deciding what's best for her own body and are against the freedom of two people of the same sex to marry.

Britain is characterized not just by its independence but, above all, by its openness.

We first have to find the way of freedom from involvement before we can introduce freedom in involvement.

It is the soldier, not the reporter, who has given us freedom of the press. It is the soldier, not the poet, who has given us freedom of speech. It is the soldier, not the campus organizer, who has given us the freedom to demonstrate. It is the soldier, who salutes the flag, who serves beneath the flag, and whose coffin is draped by the flag, who allows the protester to burn the flag.

The Declaration of Independence is a sacred part of American history.

I have freedom. But freedom means total selfishness. It means nobody cares much what you do.

We believe that human happiness requires freedom and that freedom requires limited government.

Effective interdependence can only be built on true independence.

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

Freedom is an abstract offshoot. You can't describe freedom. How can you describe it? I tried and I failed.

Independence did not mean chauvinism and narrow nationalism.

Independence cannot be real if a nation depends upon gifts.

The beauty of independence, departure, actions that rely on themselves.

The most unpardonable sin in society is independence of thought.

Intolerance of mediocrity has been the main prop of my independence.

Divorce is a declaration of independence with only two signers.

The true character of liberty is independence, maintained by force.

Economic equality is the master-key to nonviolent independence.

For most people, the price for security is personal freedom. And without freedom, many people spend their lives working for money, rather than living out to their dreams

I call for effort, courage, sacrifice, devotion. Granting the love of freedom, all of these are possible. And the love of freedom is still fierce and steady in the nation today. June 10, 1940

If there is a class war - and there is - it is important that it should be handled with subtlety and skill. ... it is not freedom that Conservatives want; what they want is the sort of freedom that will maintain existing inequalities or restore lost ones.

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

I am in jail for defending human rights, not independence.

Robert Treat Paine was a signer of the Declaration of Independence.

Freedom of thought and freedom of speech in our great institutions are absolutely necessary for the preservation of our country. The moment either is restricted, liberty begins to wither and die.

But there are other words for privacy and independence. They are isolation and loneliness.

Independence means you decide according to the law and the facts.

Youth -- nothing else worth having in the world...and I had youth, the transitory, the fugitive, now, completely and abundantly. Yet what was I going to do with it? Certainly not squander its gold on the commonplace quest for riches and respectability, and then secretly lament the price that had to be paid for these futile ideals. Let those who wish have their respectability -- I wanted freedom, freedom to indulge in whatever caprice struck my fancy, freedom to search in the farthermost corners of the earth for the beautiful, the joyous and the romantic.

Turn up for work. Discipline allows creative freedom. No discipline equals no freedom.

Maturity comes in three stages: dependence, independence and interdependence

It is a logical absurdity to equate democracy with freedom in the way that mainstream political philosophers and commentators typically do. A system where individuals and minorities are at the mercy of unconstrained majorities hardly constitutes freedom in any meaningful sense.

What I am going to tell you is this: Although it is commonly believed that the War on Terrorism is a noble effort to defend freedom, in reality, it has little to do with terrorism and even less to do with the defense of freedom.

Lolitas value independence and beauty above all else.

Freedom is not the capacity to do whatever we please; freedom is the capacity to make intelligent choices.

I think boarding school does give you an independence.