Freedom Quotes

Bush sees the evil as out there in the wider world, residing in people who 'hate freedom'. Look at his immediate response to the pictures of prisoner abuse this is not what Americans do, these are not our values.

Peter Singer

Make no mistake, in this campaign, I will offer the American ideals of economic freedom a clear and unapologetic defense.

Mitt Romney

Ruin is the destination toward which all men rush, each pursuing his own best interest in a society that believes in the freedom of the commons.

Garrett Hardin

There are forces all around you who wish to exploit division, rob you of your freedom, and tell you what to think. But young folks can rekindle the weary spirit of a slumbering nation.

Wynton Marsalis

Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.

Rabindranath Tagore

Our plans protect freedom and opportunity, and our blueprint is the Constitution of the United States.

Mitt Romney

Personal technology has given us the freedom of being able to do whatever we want - and in the case of celebrities and athletes, whomever they want. But it can also serve as a humiliation jetpack.

Sloane Crosley

Freedom is not something that one people can bestow on another as a gift. Thy claim it as their own and none can keep it from them.

Kwame Nkrumah

Every dictator is an enemy of freedom, an opponent of law.

Demosthenes

Do not allow to slip away from you freedoms the people who came before you won with such hard knocks.

David Herbert Lawrence

All voting is a sort of gaming, like checkers or backgammon, with a slight moral tinge to it, a playing with right and wrong, with moral questions; and betting naturally accompanies it. The character of the voters is not stakes. I cast my vote, perchance, as I think right; but I am not vitally concerned that that right should prevail. I am willing to leave it to the majority. Its obligation, therefore, never exceeds that of expediency. Even voting FOR THE RIGHT is DOING nothing for it. It is only expressing to men feebly your desire that it should prevail.

Henry David Thoreau

In here I'm the guy who can get things for you... outside all you need is the Yellow Pages. I don't think I could make it.

Stephen King

Jazz is about freedom within discipline. Usually a dictatorship like in Russia and Germany will prevent jazz from being played because it just seemed to represent freedom, democracy and the United States.

Dave Brubeck

I was determined to achieve the total freedom that our history lessons taught us we were entitled to, no matter what the sacrifice.

Rosabeth Moss Kanter

To preserve the freedom of the human mind then and freedom of the press, every spirit should be ready to devote itself to martyrdom; for as long as we may think as we will, and speak as we think, the condition of man will proceed in improvement

Thomas Jefferson

Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four

George Orwell

You say: I am not free. But I have raised and lowered my arm. Everyone understands that this illogical answer is an irrefutable proof of freedom.

Leo Tolstoy

Money equals freedom.

Kevin O'Leary

Watching President Obama apologize last week for America's arrogance - before a French audience that owes its freedom to the sacrifices of Americans - helped convince me that he has a deep-seated antipathy toward American values and traditions.

Rick Santorum

I love music. It's freedom, a way to deal with pent-up frustration.

Ice Cube