Freedom Quotes

I have always that there ought to be some kind of mandatory national service, not necessarily in the military but to show everybody that freedom isn't free, that everybody has an obligation to the nation as a community.

Robert M. Gates

I had crossed the line. I was free but there was no one to welcome me to the land of freedom. I was a stranger in a strange land.

Harriet Tubman

Martin took the same course, thinking as he went, that perhaps the free and independent citizens, who in their moral elevation, owned the colonel for their master, might render better homage to the goddess, Liberty, in nightly dreams upon the oven of a Russian Serf.

Charles Dickens

It is hard to know how many people do, but given that the people are so docile towards the rulers, nowadays, very few Americans show the passion for freedom that our forefathers had.

James Bovard

LEONATOWell, niece, I hope to see you one day fitted with a husband.BEATRICENot till God make men of some other metal than earth. Would it not grieve a woman to be overmastered with a pierce of valiant dust? to make an account of her life to a clod of wayward marl? No, uncle, I'll none: Adam's sons are my brethren; and, truly, I hold it a sin to match in my kindred.

William Shakespeare

We welcome change and openness; for we believe that freedom and security go together, that the advance of human liberty can only strengthen the cause of world peace.

Ronald Reagan

I've never had anything but the freedom to do what I wanted just as long as it made me happy.

Rene Redzepi

Freedom has cost too much blood and agony to be relinquished at the cheap price of rhetoric.

Thomas Sowell

If the freedom of religion, guaranteed to us by law in theory, can ever rise in practice under the overbearing inquisition of public opinion, then and only then will truth, prevail over fanaticism

Thomas Jefferson

The true value of a human being can be found in the degree to which he has attained liberation from the self.

Albert Einstein

Anywhere, anytime ordinary people are given the chance to choose, the choice is the same: freedom, not tyranny democracy, not dictatorship the rule of law, not the rule of the secret police.

Tony Blair

But I do believe that a woman's truest place is in a home, with a husband and with children, and with large freedom, pecuniary freedom, personal freedom, and the right to vote.

Lucy Stone

I have a fantastic relationship with money. I use it to buy my freedom.

Gianni Versace

People ask me if I ever thought of writing a children's book. I say, 'If I had a serious brain injury I might well write a children's book', but otherwise the idea of being conscious of who you're directing the story to is anathema to me, because, in my view, fiction is freedom and any restraints on that are intolerable.

Martin Amis

We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home.

Edward R. Murrow

We still believe in the America that is a land of opportunity and a beacon of freedom. We believe in the America that challenges each of us to be better and bigger than ourselves.

Mitt Romney

In America it's live by the sword of freedom of expression and be will to die by it as well.

Vince McMahon

Eventually I want to be a full-time mother who works occasionally - and being an actor you have that freedom.

Carrie-Anne Moss

Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves, and, under a just God cannot retain it.

Abraham Lincoln