Freedom Quotes

All Americans and freedom-loving people around the world owe President Reagan our deepest gratitude for his strong, principled leadership that ended the Cold War and brought freedom to millions of people.

Jim Ramstad

But on average, I go to the gym about four or five times a week. Today, I'm so experienced in training - I'm actually listening to my body now. My body needs freedom. When I train I create serenity and I produce oxygen in my blood. It helps me to think better and relax. By training, you accentuate the problem.

Jean Claude Van Damme

Freedom is but the possibility of a various and indefinite activity; while government, or the exercise of dominion, is a single, yet real activity. The longing for freedom, therefore, is at first only too frequently suggested by the deep-felt consciousness of its absence.

Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt

Emancipation from the bondage of the soil is no freedom for the tree.

Rabindranath Tagore

Freedom from the desire for an answer is essential to the understanding of a problem.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

If we want to talk about freedom, we must mean freedom for others as well as ourselves, and we must mean freedom for everyone inside our frontiers as well as outside.

Wendell Willkie

The men and women who serve in our military have won for us every hour we live in freedom, sometimes at the expense of the very hours of the lifetimes they had hoped to live.

Bob Riley

Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.

John Adams

Yesterday the greatest question was decided which ever was debated in America; and a greater perhaps never was, nor will be, decided among men. A resolution was passed without one dissenting colony, that these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent States.

John Adams

When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists; but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more.

John Adams

Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power.

John Adams

I'm a big advocate of freedom: freedom of speech, freedom of expression, freedom of thought.

Jimmy Wales

My wife needs her freedom just like me.

Clive Owen

The freedom now desired by many is not freedom to do and dare but freedom from care and worry.

James Truslow Adams

People demand freedom only when they have no power.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

I believe all Americans who believe in freedom, tolerance and human rights have a responsibility to oppose bigotry and prejudice based on sexual orientation.

Coretta Scott King

Don't give me any money, don't give me any people, but give freedom, and I'll give you a movie that looks gigantic.

Robert Rodriguez

I don't believe in firing professors. They have academic freedom.

Alan Dershowitz

Freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought.

Pope John Paul II

As a boy, I believed freedom for America meant freedom for me. There was a time I believed every word spoken.

Barry White