Browse through our collection of quotes tagged with Freedom.
Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one.
A. J. Liebling
It does not take a majority to prevail... but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men.
Samuel Adams
If we catch a glimpse of freedom, we wish to possess it; if we catch a glimpse of death, we want nothing to do with it. One we cannot have, the other we cannot avoid.
Jeremy P. Johnson
Not to sound overly cheesy but I really appreciate the freedom we have in America - especially as a female.
Katy Perry
What we have at present is a system of loss socialism. Whatever goes wrong is shouldered by the general public and anything that works is privatised. Worshippers of market freedom have suspended the most important economic principle: Risk and liability go hand in hand.
Sigmar Gabriel
You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.
Malcolm X
I have just enough people paying attention that I have the freedom to be in charge. And I have a great record company - Nonesuch understands what I'm about.
Emmylou Harris
When the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free and was never free again.
Edith Hamilton
Any nation that thinks more of its ease and comfort than its freedom will soon lose its freedom and the ironical thing about it is that it will lose its ease and comfort too.
W. Somerset Maugham
I feel like my work has been my path to freedom from having grown up in a segregated environment.
Anna Deavere Smith
In the literal sense, there has been no relevant evolution since the trek from Africa. But there has been substantial progress towards higher standards of rights, justice and freedom - along with all too many illustrations of how remote is the goal of a decent society.
Noam Chomsky
In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I do not shrink from this responsibility - I welcome it.
John F. Kennedy
I have more freedom when I write fiction, but my memoirs have had a much stronger impact on my readers. Somehow the 'message,' even if I am not even aware that there is one, is conveyed better in this form.
Isabel Allende
There is only one kind of freedom and that's individual liberty. Our lives come from our creator and our liberty comes from our creator. It has nothing to do with government granting it.
Ron Paul
It is true you cannot eat freedom and you cannot power machinery with democracy. But then neither can political prisoners turn on the light in the cells of a dictatorship.
Corazon Aquino
Believe me, the drug of freedom is universally potent.
Natan Sharansky
Just living is not enough... one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.
Hans Christian Anderson
I've never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It's probably because they have forgotten their own.
Margaret Atwood
We cannot expect that all nations will adopt like systems, for conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.
Giving up even an ounce of precious freedom is a very serious thing to do.
Charles Schumer