Freedom - Quotes & Sayings
Just living is not enough... one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.
Hans Christian AndersenI've learned that fear limits you and your vision. It serves as blinders to what may be just a few steps down the road for you. The journey is valuable, but believing in your talents, your abilities, and your self-worth can empower you to walk down an even brighter path. Transforming fear into freedom - how great is that?
Soledad O'BrienFriends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself - and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine with them. That's what real love amounts to - letting a person be what he really is.
Jim MorrisonEvery human has four endowments - self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom... The power to choose, to respond, to change.
Stephen CoveyEvery day, people serve their neighbors and our nation in many different ways, from helping a child learn and easing the loneliness of those without a family to defending our freedom overseas. It is in this spirit of dedication to others and to our country that I believe service should be broadly and deeply encouraged.
John McCainA hero is someone who understands the responsibility that comes with his freedom.
Bob DylanWar is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.
George OrwellPeople don't realize what's really going on in this country. There are a lot things that are going on that are unjust. People aren't being held accountable for. And that's something that needs to change. That's something that this country stands for: freedom, liberty and justice for all.
Colin KaepernickI believe our flag is more than just cloth and ink. It is a universally recognized symbol that stands for liberty, and freedom. It is the history of our nation, and it's marked by the blood of those who died defending it.
John ThuneFreedom itself was attacked this morning by a faceless coward, and freedom will be defended.
George W. BushWe will not waver; we will not tire; we will not falter, and we will not fail. Peace and Freedom will prevail.
George W. BushAmerica will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.
Abraham LincolnI realize that men and women of the military go out and sacrifice their lives and put their selves in harm's way for my freedom of speech and my freedoms in this country, and my freedom to take a seat or take a knee, so I have the utmost respect for them, and I think what I did was taken out of context and spun a different way.
Colin KaepernickTrue independence and freedom can only exist in doing what's right.
Brigham YoungTo know yourself as the Being underneath the thinker, the stillness underneath the mental noise, the love and joy underneath the pain, is freedom, salvation, enlightenment.
Eckhart TolleThe end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom. For in all the states of created beings capable of law, where there is no law, there is no freedom.
John LockePerhaps one reason we are fascinated by cats is because such a small animal can contain so much independence, dignity, and freedom of spirit. Unlike the dog, the cat's personality is never bet on a human's. He demands acceptance on his own terms.
Lloyd AlexanderIf the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.
George WashingtonPakistan not only means freedom and independence but the Muslim Ideology which has to be preserved, which has come to us as a precious gift and treasure and which, we hope other will share with us.
Muhammad Ali JinnahMakeup is no different than clothes and accessories - it's embellishments for your face. And it also gives you creative freedom. You get to have that moment in front the mirror every morning and give yourself self-love. You're making yourself up beautiful, which is essentially self-love.
Michelle PhanWithout freedom of thought, there can be no such thing as wisdom - and no such thing as public liberty without freedom of speech.
Benjamin FranklinLiberty cannot be preserved without general knowledge among the people.
John AdamsMy story is a freedom song of struggle. It is about finding one's purpose, how to overcome fear and to stand up for causes bigger than one's self.
Coretta Scott KingWhat then is freedom? The power to live as one wishes.
Marcus Tullius CiceroConformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.
John F. KennedyThe liberties of our country, the freedom of our civil constitution, are worth defending against all hazards: And it is our duty to defend them against all attacks.
Samuel AdamsAll the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
Winston ChurchillIt is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.
VoltaireI have great respect for the men and women that have fought for this country. I have family, I have friends that have gone and fought for this country. And they fight for freedom, they fight for the people, they fight for liberty and justice, for everyone.
Colin KaepernickBetween stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.
Viktor E. FranklWe all have goals: We want to matter. We want to be important. We want to have freedom and power to pursue our creative work. We want respect from our peers and recognition for our accomplishments. Not out of vanity or selfishness, but of an earnest desire to fulfill our personal potential.
Ryan HolidayThe river flows at its own sweet will, but the flood is bound in the two banks. If it were not thus bound, its freedom would be wasted.
Vinoba BhaveFreedom is hammered out on the anvil of discussion, dissent, and debate.
Hubert H. HumphreyNo phone. No pool. No pets. No cigarettes. Ultimate freedom... No longer to be poisoned by civilization, he flees, and walks alone upon the land to become Lost in the Wild.
Christopher McCandlessFreedom is the open window through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit and human dignity.
Herbert HooverFreedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
George OrwellLiberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.
George WashingtonA lovely nook of forest scenery, or a grand rock, like a beautiful woman, depends for much of its attractiveness upon the attendance sense of freedom from whatever is low; upon a sense of purity and of romance.
P. T. BarnumWhere globalization means, as it so often does, that the rich and powerful now have new means to further enrich and empower themselves at the cost of the poorer and weaker, we have a responsibility to protest in the name of universal freedom.
Nelson MandelaThe only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.
Albert CamusMan is free at the moment he wishes to be.
VoltaireNobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it.
Malcolm XComfortable shoes and the freedom to leave are the two most important things in life.
Shel SilversteinFreedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same.
Ronald ReaganPeople are dying in vain because this country isn't holding their end of the bargain up as far as, you know, giving freedom and justice and liberty to everybody.
Colin KaepernickThere is no easy walk to freedom anywhere, and many of us will have to pass through the valley of the shadow of death again and again before we reach the mountaintop of our desires.
Nelson MandelaWhen government - in pursuit of good intentions - tries to rearrange the economy, legislate morality, or help special interests, the cost come in inefficiency, lack of motivation, and loss of freedom. Government should be a referee, not an active player.
Milton FriedmanI had crossed the line. I was free; but there was no one to welcome me to the land of freedom. I was a stranger in a strange land.
Harriet TubmanMy childhood memories are amazing; I had freedom in every way - but I see everything from a different perspective now that I live outside.
Ana de ArmasFinancial freedom is available to those who learn about it and work for it.
Robert Kiyosaki