Human freedom involves our capacity to pause, to choose the one response toward which we wish to throw our weight.
Leaders’ like Maduro, Erdogan and Putin hate freedom because it gives filthy peasants too much say and power over their own lives.
For a man of my generation, our century has been a long intellectual and political struggle in favor of freedom.
We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home.
No, I don’t believe in genius. I believe in freedom. I think anyone can do it. Anyone can be like Rembrandt.
I am mortal. I want the nation to get used to freedom before I die.
Modern tyrants are terror managers. Do not allow your shock to be turned against your freedom.
The Vietnamese people deeply love independence, freedom and peace. But in the face of United States aggression they have risen up, united as one man.
The fire was followed by a period of grieving and then by an incredible lightness, freedom, and mobility.
The embattled gates to equal rights indeed opened up for modern women, but I sometimes think to myself; that is not what I meant by freedom, it is only social progress.
The rule of law, democracy, freedom of speech, freedom of expression – we cannot take them for granted. They do not exist willy-nilly across the world; they are very rare.
We must face the fact that the preservation of individual freedom is incompatible with a full satisfaction of our views of distributive justice.
We can’t equate democracy with Christianity because the largest democracy on earth is India, which is primarily Hindu. The third largest democracy is Indonesia, which is Islamic. Democracy and freedom are not dependent on Christian beliefs.
In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free – honorable alike in that we give and what we preserve. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope of earth.
Freedom is not an ideal, it is not even a protection, if it means nothing more than freedom to stagnate, to live without dreams, to have no greater aim than a second car and another television set.
But short films are not inferior, just different. I think the short gives a freedom to film-makers. What’s appealing is that you don’t have as much responsibility for storytelling and plot. They can be more like a portrait, or a poem.
Freedom of speech, freedom of the press, and freedom of religion all have a double aspect – freedom of thought and freedom of action.
Were I ever alone in the dock, I would not want to be arraigned before our flawed tribunals, knowing my freedom could be forfeit as a result of political pressures. I would prefer a fair trial, under the shadow of the noose.
When a truth is not given complete freedom, freedom is not complete.
Freedom is the right to live as we wish.
Freedom in general may be defined as the absence of obstacles to the realization of desires.
Jazz is about freedom within discipline. Usually a dictatorship like in Russia and Germany will prevent jazz from being played because it just seemed to represent freedom, democracy and the United States.
Keep fighting for freedom and justice, beloveds, but don’t forget to have fun doin’ it. Lord, let your laughter ring forth. Be outrageous, ridicule the fraidy-cats, rejoice in all the oddities that freedom can produce.
The day before the anniversary of D-Day, we lost a man who was equaled by few and surpassed by none as a leader in the cause of freedom: Ronald Reagan.
Freedom is control in your own life. I have more control now than in the past, and I’m learning the value of saying no. That’s very important.
