Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sue Monk Kidd

I think the word 'freedom' is beautiful, not so much in its phonics, but just in the power of the word itself.

Thomas French

Freedom is a human concept. We have these very romanticized, sentimentalized notions of freedom. And for species - monkeys and other creatures - freedom is a pretty risky, complex proposition that's not always for their benefit.

Ted Cruz

The American president has a peculiar leadership responsibility to speak out for freedom.

Bob Dylan

Without freedom of speech, I might be in the swamp

Bob Dylan

How many years can some people exist before they're allowed to be free...

Bob Dylan

There is nothing so stable as change.

Bob Dylan

No one is free, even the birds are chained to the sky.

Kate Bush

The freedom you feel when you're actually in control of your own music is fantastic.

Kris Kristofferson

Freedom is just another word: It seems to get truer the older I get.

Blaise Pascal

We are usually convinced more easily by reasons we have found ourselves than by those which have occurred to others.

Blaise Pascal

It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have everything one wants.

Ludwig von Mises

The so-called liberals of today have the very popular idea that freedom of speech, of thought, of the press, freedom of religion, freedom from imprisonment without trial-that all these freedoms can be preserved in the absence of what is called economic freedom. They do not realize that, in a system where there is no market, where the government directs everything, all those other freedoms are illusory, even if they are made into laws and written up in constitutions.

Denis Diderot

No man has received from nature the right to give orders to others. Freedom is a gift from heaven, and every individual of the same species has the right to enjoy it as soon as he is in enjoyment of his reason.

Denis Diderot

The general interest of the masses might take the place of the insight of genius if it were allowed freedom of action.

Clarence Day

It is fair to judge peoples by the rights they will sacrifice most for.

Elizabeth I

The sea, as well as the air, is a free and common thing to all; and a particular nation cannot pretend to have the right to the exclusion of all others, without violating the rights of nature and public usage.

Ashleigh Brilliant

Beware! Freedom of speech also includes the freedom to be misunderstood.

Arthur Helps

Men rattle their chains-to manifest their freedom.

Barbara Ehrenreich

That's free enterprise, friends: freedom to gamble, freedom to lose. And the great thing - the truly democratic thing about it - is that you don't even have to be a player to lose.

Bruce Rauner

The structure that is currently in place, inside government, forcing government employees to pay union dues, even if they don't want to be in a union -- that is fundamentally unconstitutional and it is against the American system of freedom of choice.

Woody Allen

Some actors like the total freedom Woody gives them, but I like to have some parameters, some structure.

Jesse Ventura

shows that I support freedom and that no one is pulling my strings.

Jesse Jackson

She never stopped fighting, fundamentally in her own way, she was a freedom fighter.

Bruce Barton

What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage.

Boris Yeltsin

We don't appreciate what we have until it's gone. Freedom is like that. It's like air. When you have it, you don't notice it.

Archibald MacLeish

Once you permit those who are convinced of their own superior rightness to censor and silence and suppress those who hold contrary opinions, just at that moment the citadel has been surrendered.

Archibald MacLeish

Freedom is the right to choose: the right to create for oneself the alternatives of choice. Without the possibility of choice and the exercise of choice a man is not a man but a member, an instrument, a thing.

Baruch Spinoza

Only that thing is free which exists by the necessities of its own nature, and is determined in its actions by itself alone.

Ayn Rand

Volumes can be and have been written about the issue of freedom versus dictatorship, but, in essence, it comes down to a single question: do you consider it moral to treat men as sacrificial animals and to rule them by physical force?

Charles Evans Hughes

The liberty of the press is not confined to newspapers and periodicals. It necessarily embraces pamphlets and leaflets. These indeed have been historic weapons in the defense of liberty, as the pamphlets of Thomas Paine and others in our history abundantly attest.

Charles Evans Hughes

When we lose the right to be different, we lose the privilege to be free.

Edward Abbey

Freedom begins between the ears.

Aristotle

Democracy arose from men's thinking that if they are equal in any respect, they are equal absolutely.