Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Wild liberty breeds iron conscience; natures with great impulses have great resources, and return from far.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Though we love goodness and not stealing, yet also we love freedom and not preaching.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

For what avail the plough or sail, or land or life, if freedom fail?

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The revelation of thought takes men out of servitude into freedom.

Lina Wertmuller

When you can use dirty words in every situation with everyone, that's a real big liberation.

Sam Rainsy

the respect of fundamental rights, constitutional rights, freedom of speech and assembly, freedom of movement.

At that time, I heard you say in Gdansk, 'There is no freedom without solidarity.' Today we need to say, 'There is no solidarity without love.' Indeed, there is no future for the individual and the nation (without love).

Bernard Baruch

In the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.

Graham Greene

Heresy is another word for freedom of thought.

Dick Smith

We do not want government interfering in our lives, taking away reasonable freedoms with no good, objective reason to do so.

We're validating, we're recognizing, that's freedom of speech.

Orson Scott Card

Human beings are free except when humanity needs them.

John Trudell

You go back and you read your Constitution. You read your Declaration of Independence. And you will see that the only people who could decide these freedoms were white males who owned property, and all the rest of us were excluded.

The more we reduce ourselves to machines in the lower things, the more force we shall set free to use in the higher.

We set up a certain aim, and put ourselves of our own will into the power of a certain current. Once having done that, we find ourselves committed to usages and customs which we had not before fully known, but from which we cannot depart without giving up the end which we have chosen. But we have no right, therefore, to claim that we are under the yoke of necessity. We might as well say that the man whom we see struggling vainly in the current of Niagara could not have helped jumping in.

Adlai Stevenson

The sound of tireless voices is the price we pay for the right to hear the music of our own opinions.

Adlai Stevenson

Carelessness about our security is dangerous, carelessness about our freedom is also dangerous.

Rabindranath Tagore

We gain freedom when we have paid the full price for our right to live.

Chris Butler

We all want freedom, but real freedom is possible only if we understand our true identity.

Salman Rushdie

I've been gradually reclaiming all kinds of freedoms over these years..,

Tommy Franks

The prize we seek is another 200 plus years of freedom in this country.

The public is being ripped off in the name of freedom of information.

With freedom of speech comes responsibility. And one has to be sensitive to the people within a society, so there are limits to what can be said.

Richard Avedon

Start with a style and you are in chains, start with an idea and you are free.

Rose Macaulay

There's one thing about freedom ... each generation of people begins by thinking they've got it for the first time in history, and ends by being sure the generation younger than themselves have too much of it. It can't really always have been increasing at the rate people suppose, or there would be more of it by now.

Rose Macaulay

A hot bath! How exquisite a vespertine pleasure, how luxurious, fervid and flagrant a consolation for the rigours, the austerities, the renunciations of the day.

Reinhold Niebuhr

Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary.

Paul Twitchell

In my soul, I am free.

Paul Wellstone

If we don't fight hard enough for the things we stand for, at some point we have to recognize that we don't really stand for them.

A free mind is one which is untroubled and unfettered by anything, which has not bound its best part to any particular manner of being or worship and which does not seek its own interest in anything but is always immersed in God's most precious will. . . . There is no work which men and women can perform, however small, which does not draw from this its power and strength.

Pope John Paul II

Let us not accept violence as the way of peace. Let us instead begin by respecting true freedom: the resulting peace will be able to satisfy the world's expectations, for it will be a peace built on justice, a peace founded on the incomparable dignity of the free human being.

Pope John Paul II

Once the truth is denied to human beings, it is pure illusion to try to set them free. Truth and freedom either go together hand in hand or together they perish in misery.

Pope Francis

May the power of Christ, which brings freedom and service, be felt in so many hearts afflicted by war, persecution and slavery.