Famous Quotes & Sayings

Iyanla Vanzant

To me, freedom means having the power, the inherent right, the capacity and the ability to make choices that honour who I am.

Iyanla Vanzant

When you can look a thing dead in the eye, acknowledge that it exists, call it exactly what it is, and decide what role it will take in your life then, my Beloved, you have taken the first step toward your freedom.

Immanuel Kant

God, freedom, and immortality are untenable in the light of pure reason.

Immanuel Kant

Act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.

Immanuel Kant

Freedom is independence of the compulsory will of another, and in so far as it tends to exist with the freedom of all according to a universal law, it is the one sole original inborn right belonging to every man in virtue of his humanity.

Immanuel Kant

Freedom is the alone unoriginated birthright of man, and belongs to him by force of his humanity; and is independence on the will and co-action of every other in so far as this consists with every other person's freedom.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Free people, remember this maxim: we may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lost.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

I prefer liberty with danger than peace with slavery.

Gerald Massey

I was a dweller amid shadows grim: Till FREEDOM touched my yearning eyes, and lo! Life in a shining circle, rounding rose, As heaven on heaven goes up the jewell'd night. New floods of passionate life swirl'd at my heart, Like Ocean-surges rolling round the world: And FREEDOM was my glittering Bride.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

The literature of a people must so ring from the sense of its nationality; and nationality is impossible without self-respect, and self-respect is impossible without liberty.

Ian Stewart

Chaos is lawless behavior governed entirely by law.

Hugo Black

The press was to serve the governed, not the governors.

Hugo Black

Freedom of speech means that you shall not do something to people either for the views they have, or the views they express, or the words they speak or write.

Hugh Downs

The price of freedom is responsibility, but it's a bargain, because freedom is priceless.

Howie Carr

An armed society is a free society.

John Dryden

I am as free as nature first made man.

Louis Leterrier

I don't want to be Luc's henchman. I want to look for freedom.

Tom Williams

However, individuals are free to do what they want.

He's ... improved his outside jump shot. He's improved his free throws, and he's working on an inside game.

Paul Molitor

I could become a free agent. I'd have to go to an American League team, like the Mets. That sounds funny, doesn't it?

I don't miss free throws. I don't know what I was doing.

Marc Warren

I don't like planning, because it robs me of freedom, so I'd like a 24 hours that was full of surprises.

Paul Mooney

I do celebrate anything with freedom in it, you know.

Greg Biffle

If I was a little freer I might have got him.

If I had done my job better of preparing these guys, we would have done better. But (Freedom's) soccer, well, wasn't really soccer. They had to rely on free kicks and throw-ins. And for us to lose to a team that plays that type of soccer is very disappointing.

I don't see any harm in it. . . . We have guys who miss free throws who are really good shooters.

I don't think free music is a hard sell.

Boris Yeltsin

His contribution was invaluable to the formation of a new image of the Middle East, free of stereotypes of confrontation and enmity.

Nancy Reagan

His legacy is a strong and free America, and for this and for a lifetime of selfless service, a grateful nation thanks him.

It was a perfect day, right around freezing with snow, ice and sunshine.

Warner has free rein. It's a policy I've only second-guessed one or two times.

Frederick Douglass

Who would be free themselves must strike the blow. Better even to die free than to live slaves.

Frederick Douglass

Heaven's blessing must attend all, and freedom must soon be given to the pining millions under a ruthless bondage.