Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robert Southey

Easier were it To hurl the rooted mountain from its base, Than force the yoke of slavery upon men Determin'd to be free.

Walt Disney

Once a man has tasted freedom he will never be content to be a slave. That is why I believe that this frightfulness we see everywhere today is only temporary. Tomorrow will be better for as long as America keeps alive the ideals of freedom and a better life. All men will want to be free and share our way of life. There must be so much that I should have said, but haven't. What I will say now is just what most of us are probably thinking every day. I thank God and America for the right to live and raise my family under the flag of tolerance, democracy and freedom.

Walt Disney

Once a man has tasted freedom, he will never be content to be a slave.

Vissarion Belinsky

I am strongly convinced that the people or society is the best and the most unerring critic.

Vita Sackville-West

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

Tiberius

In a free state there should be freedom of speech and thought.

Russell Means

Being an Indian means living with the land. And the only way we'll be able to do that is to gain our freedom.

Russell Means

You can't talk about the environment, you can't talk about political correctness, affirmative action and all the other innumerable things that freedom is about, unless you have a free society based upon the integrity of the individual. If you have a responsible society, these other issues will not come up in a responsible society, and that is what freedom is all about.

Russell Means

Freedom is for everyone, whatever lifestyle they choose, as long as it's peaceful and honest

Russell Means

The only way you can be free is to know is that you are worthwhile as a distinct human being.

Russell Means

I find freedom to be the most important issue facing any human being today, because without freedom, then life is pointless. The more dependent you become on centralized power, the more easily you are lead around.

Ron Paul

I am absolutely convinced, you never have to give up any of your freedoms in order to be secure.

Ron Paul

I am absolutely opposed to a national ID card. This is a total contradiction of what a free society is all about. The purpose of government is to protect the secrecy and the privacy of all individuals, not the secrecy of government. We don't need a national ID card.

Ron Paul

Government is the enemy of conservatism and freedom.

Ron Paul

You know, freedom is a very popular idea, and young people love it, and they're open to ideas. And they like principled answers to our problems.

Ron Paul

Only in a free society do individuals have the best chance to seek virtue, strive for excellence, improve their economic well-being, and achieve personal happiness... The worthy goals of civilization can only be achieved by freedom loving individuals. When government uses force, liberty is sacrificed and the goals are lost. It is freedom that is the source of all creative energy.

Ron Paul

America was founded by men who understood that the threat of domestic tyranny is as great as any threat from abroad. If we want to be worthy of their legacy, we must resist the rush toward ever-increasing state control of our society. Otherwise, our own government will become a greater threat to our freedoms than any foreign terrorist.

Ron Paul

Privacy IS freedom. Leave us alone!

Ron Paul

There is but one special interest that we should be working for, and that would solve just about all of our problems, and that is our liberty.

Rosa Luxemburg

Freedom is always the freedom of dissenters.

Rosa Luxemburg

Without general elections, without freedom of the press, freedom of speech, freedom of assembly, without the free battle of opinions, life in every public institution withers away, becomes a caricature of itself, and bureaucracy rises as the only deciding factor.

Rosa Parks

Whatever my individual desires were to be free, I was not alone. There were many others who felt the same way.

Rosa Parks

I would like to be remembered as a person who wanted to be free... so other people would be also free.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Only by obedience to his genius; only by the freest activity in the way constitutional to him, does an angel seem to arise beforea man, and lead him by the hand out of all the wards of the prison.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The desire of gold is not for gold. It is for the means of freedom and benefit.

Sharon Creech

A person isn't a bird. You can't cage a person.

Neil Peart

Waiting for the winds of change to sweep the clouds away. Waiting for the rainbow's end to cast its gold your way ... You don't get something for nothing. You can't have freedom for free

Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

No matter how rich and prosperous, a nation without independence, cannot be subject to any behaviour before the humanity, at a higher level than serving.

Swami Vivekananda

If you think that you are bound, you remain bound; you make your own bondage. If you know that you are free, you are free this moment. This is knowledge, knowledge of freedom. Freedom is the goal of all nature.

Swami Vivekananda

We must always bear in mind that we are not going to be free, but are free already. Every idea that we are bound is a delusion.

Tony Abbott

We've got to maintain freedom of navigation of the seas and in the air.

Thomas Merton

A superficial freedom to wander aimlessly here or there, to taste this or that, to make a choice of distractions, is simply a sham. It claims to be a freedom of "choice" when it has evaded the basic task of discovering who it is that chooses.

Thomas Carlyle

Everywhere the human soul stands between a hemisphere of light and another of darkness; on the confines of the two everlasting empires, necessity and free will.