938 private quotes tagged freedom

“When we lose the right to be different, we lose the privilege to be free.” — Charles Evans Hughes

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“Music is where I have the most creative freedom, but I love producing. To me, that's kind of where all the action is. You get a chance to have your hands in every aspect of a film. From picking a director, sometimes picking a writer, to the actors, the wardrobe, set design, editing, music, and marketing.” — Ice Cube

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“Recruitment and retention are critical to sustain our Armed Forces with the best men and women willing to stand in the gap and make huge sacrifices to ensure our freedom.” — Zack Wamp

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“A sense of freedom is something that, happily, comes with age and life experience.” — Diane Keaton

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“In my youth I stressed freedom, and in my old age I stress order. I have made the great discovery that liberty is a product of order.” — Will Durant

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“No one can enjoy freedom without trembling.” — Emile M. Cioran

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“Yoga is a way to freedom. By its constant practice, we can free ourselves from fear, anguish and loneliness.” — Indra Devi

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“Patrick Henry did not say, 'Give me absolutely safety or give me death.' America is supposed to be about freedom.” — John Stossel

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“Many a time freedom has been rolled back - and always for the same sorry reason: fear.” — Molly Ivins

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“When we are unwilling to draw clear moral lines between free societies and fear societies, when we are unwilling to call the former good and the latter evil, we will not be able to advance the cause of peace because peace cannot be disconnected from freedom.” — Natan Sharansky

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“Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death.” — Michel Aoun

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“Among the best traitors Ireland has ever had, Mother Church ranks at the very top, a massive obstacle in the path to equality and freedom. She has been a force for conservatism... to ward off threats to her own security and influence.” — Bernadette Devlin

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“I say let's go back to a truer use of the word 'freedom.' Let's start with President Franklin Roosevelt's Four Freedoms: freedom of speech and expression, freedom of worship, freedom from want and freedom from fear. I would add the freedom to bargain collectively. Those freedoms are under attack today.” — Richard Trumka

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“Freedom is contagious. That's why despots fear it so much.” — Bill Owens

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“I now bid farewell to the country of my birth - of my passions - of my death a country whose misfortunes have invoked my sympathies - whose factions I sought to quell - whose intelligence I prompted to a lofty aim - whose freedom has been my fatal dream.” — Thomas Francis Meagher

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“Roosevelt talked not only about Freedom from Fear, but also Freedom from Want.” — Jeffrey Sachs

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“'Freedom from fear' could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights.” — Dag Hammarskjold

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“As the fly bangs against the window attempting freedom while the door stands open, so we bang against death ignoring heaven.” — Douglas Horton

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“I am just absolutely convinced that the best formula for giving us peace and preserving the American way of life is freedom, limited government, and minding our own business overseas.” — Ron Paul

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“It is clear that not in one thing alone, but in many ways equality and freedom of speech are a good thing.” — Herodotus

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“If one is going to err, one should err on the side of liberty and freedom.” — Kofi Annan

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“We clearly realize that freedom's inner kingdom cannot be touched by exterior attacks.” — Vernon Howard

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“Death is the liberator of him whom freedom cannot release, the physician of him whom medicine cannot cure, and the comforter of him whom time cannot console.” — Charles Caleb Colton

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“The terrorists are fighting freedom with all their cunning and cruelty because freedom is their greatest fear - and they should be afraid, because freedom is on the march.” — George W. Bush

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“Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth when perfect sincerity is expected, perfect freedom must be allowed nor has anyone who is apt to be angry when he hears the truth any cause to wonder that he does not hear it.” — Tacitus

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