Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard Gere

This is an outrage. There are no freedoms in China. There are no freedoms in Tibet.

David Keene

This is not a partisan issue. It is an issue of safeguarding the fundamental freedoms of all Americans so that future administrations do not interpret our laws in ways that pose constitutional concerns.

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.

Stockwell Day

I believe in freedom of speech, but I believe we should also have the right to comment on freedom of speech.

Stokely Carmichael

The first need of a free people is to define their own terms.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

A joyful life is an individual creation that cannot be copied from a recipe.

Pearl S. Buck

Men would rather be starving and free than fed in bonds.

Peace Pilgrim

Anything you strive to hold captive will hold you captive, and if you desire freedom you must give freedom.

Peter Ustinov

In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from.

Pema Chodron

Discomfort of any kind becomes the basis for practice. We breathe in knowing our pain is shared.

Pema Chodron

When you open the door and invite in all sentient beings as your guests, you have to drop your agenda.

Pema Chodron

We can begin to open our hearts to others when we have no hope of getting anything back. We just do it for its own sake.

Philip Pullman

No one has the right to live without being shocked.

Rabindranath Tagore

Grant me that I may not be a coward, feeling your mercy in my success alone; but let me find the grasp of your hand in my failure.

Rabindranath Tagore

The tyrant claims freedom to kill freedom, and yet keep it for himself.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

A part of fate is the freedom of man. Forever wells up the impulse of choosing and acting in his soul.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

If you cannot be free be as free as you can.