938 private quotes tagged freedom

“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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“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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“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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“Everywhere that freedom stirs, let tyrants fear.” — George W. Bush

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“We know the road to freedom has always been stalked by death.” — Angela Davis

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“I hope for nothing. I fear nothing. I am free.” — Nikos Kazantzakis

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“I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom.” — Bob Dylan

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“Expose yourself to your deepest fear after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.” — Jim Morrison

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“All stories interest me, and some haunt me until I end up writing them. Certain themes keep coming up: justice, loyalty, violence, death, political and social issues, freedom.” — Isabel Allende

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“Her beauty didn't do her any good and she couldn't use it in any positive way or manipulative way. I just hope that people will look and see and believe in that hope of love, that hope of freedom, even if it was just for a limited time.” — Diane Kruger

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“A political prisoner is someone who is out fighting for his or her people's rights and freedom and is imprisoned for that alone.” — Leonard Peltier

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“Books were my pass to personal freedom. I learned to read at age three, and soon discovered there was a whole world to conquer that went beyond our farm in Mississippi.” — Oprah Winfrey

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“I think my first album opened a lot of doors for me to push the freedom of speech to the limit.” — Eminem

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“I'm interested in anything about revolt, disorder, chaos, especially activity that appears to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom.” — Jim Morrison

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“Ultimately we know deeply that the other side of every fear is freedom.” — Marilyn Ferguson

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“I believe in a religion that believes in freedom. Any time I have to accept a religion that won't let me fight a battle for my people, I say to hell with that religion.” — Malcolm X

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“What is ominous is the ease with which some people go from saying that they don't like something to saying that the government should forbid it. When you go down that road, don't expect freedom to survive very long.” — Thomas Sowell

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“A free America... means just this: individual freedom for all, rich or poor, or else this system of government we call democracy is only an expedient to enslave man to the machine and make him like it.” — Frank Lloyd Wright

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“One of the rewards of success is freedom, the ability to do whatever you like.” — Sting

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“I loved climbing because of the freedom, and having time and space. I remember coming off Everest for the last time, thinking of Dad and wishing that he could have seen what I saw. He would have loved it.” — Bear Grylls

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“I am a Republican, a black, dyed in the wool Republican, and I never intend to belong to any other party than the party of freedom and progress.” — Frederick Douglass

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“I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder, chaos-especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom... Rather than starting inside, I start outside and reach the mental through the physical.” — Jim Morrison

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“The very idea of freedom incites fear in the hearts of terrorists across the world.” — Elizabeth Dole

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“The framers of our Constitution meant we were to have freedom of religion, not freedom from religion.” — Billy Graham

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“A hero is someone who understands the responsibility that comes with his freedom.” — Bob Dylan

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