Liberty & Freedom Quotes (3363 Quotes)

Robert Treat Paine was a signer of the Declaration of Independence.

Hundreds of American soldiers have given their lives in Afghanistan to promote liberty, including freedom of conscience and religion.

People have given me the freedom and believe in me enough to say if I want to do these things that I will find a way to make it work. I don't know if they think I'm crazy, drug damaged or just an old weirdo.

Freedom is fragile and must be protected. To sacrifice it, even as a temporary measure, is to betray it.

Giving up even an ounce of precious freedom is a very serious thing to do.

The world became a better place to live in after 119 1989 - fall of Berlin wall because each outbreak of freedom stimulated another outbreak.

If there had been a censorship of the press in Rome we should have had today neither Horace nor Juvenal, nor the philosophical writings of Cicero

Time and again the U.S. has given the world its most precious resource in the cause of freedom, the lives of its most talented and courageous young men and women.

Part of the beauty of freedom is that freedom is chaotic.

FREEDOM, n. Exemption from the stress of authority in a beggarly half dozen of restraint's infinite multitude of methods. A political condition that every nation supposes itself to enjoy in virtual monopoly. Liberty. The distinction between freedom and liberty is not accurately known naturalists have never been able to find a living specimen of either. Freedom, as every schoolboy knows, Once shrieked as Kosciusko fell On every wind, indeed, that blows I hear her yell. She screams whenever monarchs meet, And parliaments as well, To bind the chains about her feet And toll her knell. And when the sovereign people cast The votes they cannot spell, Upon the pestilential blast Her clamors swell. For all to whom the power's given To sway or to compel, Among themselves apportion Heaven And give her Hell. --Blary O'Gary.

You have to struggle a bit, hustle a little, and be willing to go bankrupt. Once you're willing to do that, everything opens up and you get the freedom. My joke is that next year, I'll make the first film that costs zero dollars.

I just think it's the freedom that they all have to shoot the ball and play. Everybody on the team knows they have a chance to go in every night and play and make a difference.

Liberty is the soul's right to breathe.

People are born in a certain place, and in a certain society. I don't mean to sound like a determinist, but to think we're entirely free to do whatever we want betrays a certain class perspective. For most people who have to work for a living, and work at jobs under conditions they may not like, it's just not simple when it comes to freedom.

Our founders insisted on checks on presidential power to protect our nation's legacy of liberty. The Senate Intelligence Committee must transcend party politics and insist on facts, not rhetoric. The American people deserve the truth, not a whitewash by their elected representatives. Our security and liberty are far too important to be sacrificed in order to protect a president that has hidden from Congress and the public his decision that he need not follow the laws that protect the rights of ordinary Americans.

Liberty is to the collective body, what health is to every individual body. Without health no pleasure can be tasted by man; without liberty, no happiness can be enjoyed by society.

You cultivate the essential virtues high purpose, intelligence, decency, humility, fear of the Lord, and the passion for freedom.

I love the fact that art allows you the freedom to be able to do what you want with no real constraints as to how you can express yourself. There is no real right or wrong, which is one of the main attractions I've had towards painting.

Hail Independence, hail Heaven's next best gift, To that of life and an immortal soul

This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.

Stopping leaks is a new form of censorship.

The nice thing about the Bible is it doesn't give you too many facts. Two an a half lines and it tells you the whole story and that leaves you a great deal of freedom to elaborate on how it might have happened.

My claim is that we should focus on the values of liberty... If there is not government to insist on those values, then who ... The single unifying force should be that we govern ourselves.

Saddam will have a very just and fair trial in Iraq, ... Now he is enjoying all kinds of freedom for a prisoner -- he has television, radio with him, books, he can write, he can read, he can contact everyone. But Saddam Hussein is a war criminal. He committed crimes against the Iraqi people, against our neighbors, against Iranians, against Kuwaitis. For that I think he will deserve to be presented to the court as a war criminal and when this is sentenced, the sentence must be respected.

Look at every department of state and I will show you bureaucracy and regulation, an ever-greater threat to enterprise, diversity and freedom.

This is totally paradoxical. Denmark is one of the countries in the world where press freedom is the most respected. And there is no press freedom or almost no press freedom in Arabic countries, so thats probably why they cannot understand that a newspaper can be independent from the state and can independently from the state publish information it chooses.

We in this country, in this generation, are--by destiny rather than choice--the watchmen on the walls of world freedom. We ask, therefore, that we may be worthy of our power and responsibility, that we may exercise our strength with wisdom and restraint, and that we may achieve in our time and for all time the ancient vision of peace on earth, good will toward men. That must always be our goal, and the righteousness of our cause must always underlie our strength. For as was written long ago except the Lord keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain.

I want to emphasize the fact that the independence of Kosovo should and will be recognized.

Your Guardians of Freedom is a new program that enables unit commanders and Airmen to quickly communicate with people affected by and interested in the mobilization and deployment of military people.

I think we played pretty good defense. We ran the floor and executed our offense. We got a 20-point lead and that let us play with a little more freedom.

The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask.

Freedom and truth are returning to Ukraine following today's decision.

This is so much better than flying on a balance beam or on the uneven bars, where you don't have the fairy dust to keep you up. And it was just such a great sense of freedom.

I think our fans are having fun. I don't want to take anything away from the Liberty Bowl because those people treated us great, but this is a great place. This is great for our fans.

Liberty is a compelling opportunity to penetrate or consolidate Europe, Asia and South American cable markets, but since it trades in the U.S. and it is dollar denominated, the foreign benefits will be somewhat muted.

I don't see any kind of mirror of power, male power, that is, as a form of liberation. I don't believe in an eye for an eye. I don't believe this is truly freedom.

I just kept it real and had the freedom to do what I want. It's not designed for any age group. It's not made for radio. There are no edits. The whole album contains explicit lyrics but that's because you need it.

You cannot parcel out freedom in pieces because freedom is all or nothing.

We're not, in any way, any kind of a censorship organization. We're not anti-media. We believe very strongly in the importance of the First Amendment.

The Canadian government is following the bad example set by the U. S. administration if it thinks it can hide the facts from the population. Respect for the grief of the families is of course necessary, but it should not be used as a pretext that is tantamount to censorship.

This board has always operated on the important governance principles of independence, deliberation and respect for a diversity of views, ... The board recognizes the importance of shareowner voices. We will reach out to shareowners, including our institu

More than 170 flags will fly on the south lawn of the White House today as a way to visually and symbolically explain that the world is coming together to fight this threat to civilization and to freedom.

Private property was the original source of freedom. It still is its main ballpark.

These brave men and women in uniform sacrificed their lives for the cause of freedom and for the security of their fellow Americans,

This is a tremendous victory for freedom.

Freedom is not being a slave to any circumstance, to any constraint, to any chance it means compelling Fortune to enter the lists on equal terms.

The phrase right to privacy ... deprive any person of life, liberty or property without due process of law.

Spirit borrows from matter the perceptions on which it feeds and restores them to matter in the form of movements which it has stamped with its own freedom.

With courage and character, American soldiers continue to put themselves on the line to defend our freedom, and so many have paid the ultimate sacrifice.

You cannot build character and courage by taking away a man's initiative and independence.