Freedom Quotes

Institutions - government, churches, industries, and the like - have properly no other function than to contribute to human freedom and in so far as they fail, on the whole, to perform this function, they are wrong and need reconstruction.

Charles Horton Cooley

I am not an anti to anything which will bring freedom to my class.

Mary Harris Jones

I've returned to being an amateur without any ties or strings attached, which gives me a freedom I never had before.

Cat Stevens

We hold our heads high, despite the price we have paid, because freedom is priceless.

Lech Walesa

Freedom granted only when it is known beforehand that its effects will be beneficial is not freedom.

Friedrich August von Hayek

It is by the goodness of God that we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.

Mark Twain

No, I don't believe in genius. I believe in freedom. I think anyone can do it. Anyone can be like Rembrandt.

Damien Hirst

This is America. You can do anything here.

Robert E. Turner

History suggests that capitalism is a necessary condition for political freedom. Clearly it is not a sufficient condition.

Milton Friedman

The link between my experience as an entrepreneur and that of a politician is all in one word: freedom.

Silvio Berlusconi

There's a freedom to being young that is harder to come by as time goes on.

Dave Matthews

That happens every time I get behind a guitar, regardless of what I'm saying, 'cause music is freedom and being free is the closest I've ever felt to being spiritual.

Ben Harper

I do have the freedom to choose what I want to do and I'll continue to do that.

Moira Kelly

I feel like my honesty gives people the freedom to talk about things they wouldn't otherwise.

Jane Fonda

So long as you do not achieve social liberty, whatever freedom is provided by the law is of no avail to you.

B. R. Ambedkar

Great research universities must insist on independence from government and on the exercise of academic freedom.

Alan Dershowitz

I believe that God has planted in every heart the desire to live in freedom.

George W. Bush

To criticize a person for their race is manifestly irrational and ridiculous, but to criticize their religion, that is a right. That is a freedom.

Rowan Atkinson

In short, is not liberty the freedom of every person to make full use of his faculties, so long as he does not harm other persons while doing so?

Frederic Bastiat

I've got personal views on the '60s. You can't have freedom without paying the price for it.

James Lovelock