Freedom means the opportunity to be what we never thought we would be.
– Daniel J. Boorstin
Freedom of expression is the matrix, the indispensable condition, of nearly every other form of freedom.
– Benjamin Cardozo
Freedom of mind is the ultimate prove of persistence.” A person, whose mind is not free though he may not be in prison, he is a prisoner and not a free man
– The Omani Shed
Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure.
– Bertrand Russell
Freedom of speech and freedom of action are meaningless without freedom to think. And there is no freedom of thought without doubt.
– Bergen
Freedom of speech gives us all the opportunity to express our thoughts and react to them; but does this “ freedom” give “big brother”, the opportunity to dictate our way of life???
– Larry Levesque
Freedom of the press is limited to those who own one.
– A. J. Liebling
Freedom, then, lies only in our innate human capacity to choose between different sorts of bondage, bondage to desire or self esteem, or bondage to the light that lightens all our lives.
– Sri Madhava
Give your freedom to someone or to something and then look at yourself what have you got? I tell you, you've got nothing left!
– Mehmet Murat ildan
God is not merely interestd in the freedom of brown men, yellow men, red men and black men.He is interested in the freedom of the whole human race.
– Martin Luther King Jr.
Hell is God's great compliment to the reality of human freedom and the dignity of human choice.
– Gilbert Keith Chesterton
Here is the best wish for the new year: Let there be more freedom of thought throughout the world! Fields need rain; truths need freedom of thought!
History suggests that Capitalism is a necessary condition for political freedom.
– Milton Friedman
How does the Meadow flower its bloom unfold Because the lovely little flower is free Down to its root, and in that freedom bold.
– William Wordsworth
I am for freedom of religion, & against all maneuvres to bring about a legal ascendancy of one sect over another.
– Thomas Jefferson, letter to Elbridge Gerry, 1799
I am old enough to know that victory is often a thing deferred, and rarely at the summit of courage... What is at the summit of courage, I think, is freedom. The freedom that comes with the knowledge that no earthly think can break you.
– Paula Giddings
I believe that freedom is the deepest need of every human soul.
– George W. Bush, Press Conference, White House, Tuesday, April 13, 2004
I believe that God has planted in every human heart the desire to live in freedom. And even when that desire is crushed by tyranny for decades, it will rise again.
– George W. Bush, State of the Union address, January 20, 2004
I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.
– James Madison
I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and democracy - but that could change.
– Dan Quayle
I do not come into this pulpit hoping that perhaps somebody will of his own free will return to Christ. My hope lies in another quarter. I hope that my Master will lay hold of some of them and say, You are mine, and you shall be mine. I claim you for myself. My hope arises from the freeness of grace, and not from the freedom of the will.
– Charles Haddon Spurgeon
I express many absurd opinions, but I am not the first man to do it American freedom consists largely in talking nonsense.
– Edgar Watson Howe
I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block in the stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen's Councilor or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to 'order' than to justice who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice who constantly says 'I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I cannot agree with your methods of direct action' who paternalistically believes he can set the timetable for someone else's freedom who lives by a mythical concept of time and who constantly advises the Negro to wait for a 'more convenient season.'
– Martin Luther King, Jr.
I know but one freedom, and that is the freedom of the mind.
– Antoine de Saint-Exupery
I love freedom for what I can do with it, I hate freedom for what I have done with it.
– Christian Longe