938 private quotes tagged freedom

“I was determined to achieve the total freedom that our history lessons taught us we were entitled to, no matter what the sacrifice.” — Rosabeth Moss Kanter

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“The spread of freedom is the best security for the free.” — Tony Blair

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“Freedom from care and anxiety of mind is a blessing, which I apprehend such people enjoy in higher perfection than most others, and is of the utmost consequence.” — William Falconer

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“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

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“True freedom is the capacity for acting according to one's true character, to be altogether one's self, to be self-determined and not subject to outside coercion.” — Corliss Lamont

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“Any one who wants to live in peace and freedom will be to live by toil, demonstration of high levels of discipline and tolerance for one another.” — Yahya Jammeh

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“We don't have an Official Secrets Act in the United States, as other countries do. Under the First Amendment, freedom of the press, freedom of speech, and freedom of association are more important than protecting secrets.” — Alan Dershowitz

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“Laying tracks gives you freedom without being too obvious.” — Claude Chabrol

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“Those who write the editorials and those who write the columns, they simply are unaccountable. They're free to impose their cultural politics in the name of freedom of the press.” — Jesse Jackson

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“I believe firmly that in making ethical decisions, man has the prerogative of true freedom of choice.” — Corliss Lamont

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“Freedom of choice is more to be treasured than any possession earth can give.” — David O. McKay

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“You can be a thousand different women. It's your choice which one you want to be. It's about freedom and sovereignty. You celebrate who you are. You say, 'This is my kingdom.'” — Salma Hayek

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“The hope of the nation which throughout the nineteenth century had not for a moment reconciled itself with the loss of independence, and fighting for its own freedom, fought at the same time for the freedom of other nations.” — Lech Walesa

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“Real freedom is creative, proactive, and will take me into new territories. I am not free if my freedom is predicated on reacting to my past.” — Kenny Loggins

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“Freedom is an indivisible word. If we want to enjoy it, and fight for it, we must be prepared to extend it to everyone, whether they are rich or poor, whether they agree with us or not, no matter what their race or the color of their skin.” — Wendell Willkie

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“America's Veterans have served their country with the belief that democracy and freedom are ideals to be upheld around the world.” — John Doolittle

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“Human freedom involves our capacity to pause, to choose the one response toward which we wish to throw our weight.” — Rollo May

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“Many will view the compromises that will be made during your negotiations as painful concessions. But why not view them as peace offerings, ones that will provide in return the priceless gifts of hope, security and freedom for our children and our children's?” — King Abdullah II

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“An almost hysterical antagonism toward the gold standard is one issue which unites statists of all persuasions. They seem to sense... that gold and economic freedom are inseparable.” — Alan Greenspan

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“Woe to that nation whose literature is cut short by the intrusion of force. This is not merely interference with freedom of the press but the sealing up of a nation's heart, the excision of its memory.” — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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“We all have the right of freedom of speech under the First Amendment. We all don't have to agree with one another on our opinions. Everyone in my circle, that I run around with, we all feel the same about God, country, integrity and character.” — Luke Scott

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“Because if you lived, as I did, several years under Nazi totalitarianism, and then 20 years in communist totalitarianism, you would certainly realize how precious freedom is, and how easy it is to lose your freedom.” — Milos Forman

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“If this liberal potential is properly channeled, we may expect the area of freedom of the United States to increase. The problem is to spend up our rate of social invention in the service of the welfare of all the people.” — Henry A. Wallace

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“Anything outside marriage seems like freedom and excitement.” — Jeanette Winterson

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“In the end, nature is inexorable: it has no reason to hurry and, sooner or later, it takes what belongs to it. Unconsciously and inflexibly obedient to its own laws, it doesn't know art, just as it doesn't know freedom, just as it doesn't know goodness.” — Ivan Turgenev

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