Freedom is not enough.
Lyndon B. JohnsonFor more than four decades, the Libyan people have been ruled by a tyrant – Moammar Gaddafi. He has denied his people freedom, exploited their wealth, murdered opponents at home and abroad, and terrorized innocent people around the world – including Americans who were killed by Libyan agents.
Barack ObamaAbsolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself.
Henry AdamsThe approach of liberty makes even an old man brave.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaA people free to choose will always choose peace.
Ronald ReaganWe need to reject any politics that targets people because of race or religion. This isn’t a matter of political correctness. It’s a matter of understanding what makes us strong. The world respects us not just for our arsenal; it respects us for our diversity and our openness and the way we respect every faith.
Barack ObamaLet every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.
John F. KennedyWhere an excess of power prevails, property of no sort is duly respected. No man is safe in his opinions, his person, his faculties, or his possessions.
James MadisonFreedom is what you do with what’s been done to you.
Jean-Paul SartreThe men and women of Afghanistan are building a nation that is free, and proud, and fighting terror – and America is honored to be their friend.
George W. BushYou know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break.
Harry S. TrumanI’d read up on the history of our country and I’d become fascinated with the story of the Alamo. To me it represented the fight for freedom, not just in America, but in all countries.
John WayneAmong a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.
Edmund BurkeWe all have wings, but they have not been of any avail to us and if we could tear them off, we would do so.
Franz KafkaPunk is musical freedom. It’s saying, doing and playing what you want. In Webster’s terms, ‚nirvana‘ means freedom from pain, suffering and the external world, and that’s pretty close to my definition of Punk Rock.
Kurt CobainIn the 21st century, the countries that thrive will be the ones where citizens know their voices will be heard because the institutions are transparent.
Joe BidenWho is more to be pitied, a writer bound and gagged by policemen or one living in perfect freedom who has nothing more to say?
Kurt VonnegutThe only certain freedom’s in departure.
Robert FrostFreedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same.
Ronald ReaganThe thing about the truth is, not a lot of people can handle it.
Conor McGregorThe tyrant has fallen, and Iraq is free.
George W. BushConnectivity enables transparency for better government, education, and health.
Bill GatesTo live is to find out for yourself what is true, and you can do this only when there is freedom, when there is continuous revolution inwardly, within yourself.
Jiddu KrishnamurtiWe humans for millions of years were nomadic. We associated freedom and well-being with the ability to move into open spaces, to find places more suited to hunting.
Robert GreeneIn this possibly terminal phase of human existence, democracy and freedom are more than just ideals to be valued – they may be essential to survival.
Noam ChomskyFreedom in general may be defined as the absence of obstacles to the realization of desires.
Bertrand RussellThe wise use of your freedom to make your own decisions is crucial to your spiritual growth, now and for eternity.
Russell M. NelsonYou can hold yourself back from the sufferings of the world, that is something you are free to do and it accords with your nature, but perhaps this very holding back is the one suffering you could avoid.
Franz KafkaLet us ask ourselves, ‚What kind of people do we think we are?‘ And let us answer, ‚Free people, worthy of freedom and determined not only to remain so but to help others gain their freedom as well.‘
Ronald ReaganRebellion is what you make of it. When you’ve been on a tour bus for two months straight, and then you get in your car and drive wherever you want, that can feel rebellious.
Taylor SwiftThere’s a certain amount of freedom involved in cycling: you’re self-propelled and decide exactly where to go. If you see something that catches your eye to the left, you can veer off there, which isn’t so easy in a car, and you can’t cover as much ground walking.
David ByrneSome books leave us free and some books make us free.
Ralph Waldo EmersonIf you’re going to be crazy, you have to get paid for it or else you’re going to be locked up.
Hunter S. ThompsonHuman kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough.
Franklin D. RooseveltNever, never and never again shall it be that this beautiful land will again experience the oppression of one by another.
Nelson MandelaWhat spectacle can be more edifying or more seasonable, than that of Liberty and Learning, each leaning on the other for their mutual and surest support?
James MadisonI’ve never been shy or secretive with the fact that if you walk into my life, you may be walking onto a record.
Taylor SwiftOnly in our dreams are we free. The rest of the time we need wages.
Terry PratchettNo man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned… a man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company.
Samuel JohnsonI want to do a certain thing in the world, and I am going to do it with unwavering concentration. I am concerning myself with only one essential thing: to set man free. I desire to free him from all cages, from all fears, and not to found religions, new sects, nor to establish new theories and new philosophies.
Jiddu KrishnamurtiI just think you ought to talk straight with your people.
John KennedyThe true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.
Edmund BurkeI filed the MSRB Reform Act, along with Sens. Elizabeth Warren and Doug Jones, because the board that oversees the muni-bond market is too secretive and too incestuous. Its membership shares the same DNA. That means the rulebook for municipal bonds is in the hands of a board that resembles a revolving door of longtime industry confederates.
John KennedyI’m not sure if it’s good to have freedom or not. I’m really confused now.
Jackie ChanI have seen how leaders rule by intimidation. Leaders who demonize and dehumanize entire groups of people often do so because they have nothing else to offer. And I have seen how places that stifle the voices and dismiss the potential of their citizens are diminished: how they are less vital, less hopeful, less free.
Michelle ObamaFreedom without limits is just a word.
Terry PratchettThere is no more independence in politics than there is in jail.
Will RogersI don’t mind saying, you know, that I don’t take a salary from the church, and God has blessed me with more money than I could imagine from my books. It’s been printed all over, so I don’t feel like I am hiding anything.
Joel OsteenThose who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves; and under the rule of a just God, cannot long retain it.
Abraham LincolnI don’t see the point of doing an interview unless you’re going to share the things you learn in life and the mistakes you make. So to admit that I’m extremely human and have done some dark things I don’t think makes me unusual or unusually dark. I think it actually is the right thing to do, and I’d like to think it’s the nice thing to do.
Angelina JolieI’m not one icon. I’m every icon. I’m an icon that is made out of all the colors on the palette at every time. I have no restrictions. No restrictions.
Lady GagaGod grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the nations of the earth, so that a philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say: ‚This is my country.‘
Benjamin FranklinDictators free themselves, but they enslave the people.
Charlie ChaplinI noticed words crudely spray-painted upon the wall, perhaps by a young Berliner: ‚This wall will fall. Beliefs become reality.‘ Yes, across Europe, this wall will fall. For it cannot withstand faith; it cannot withstand truth. The wall cannot withstand freedom.
Ronald ReaganIf men were born free, they would, so long as they remained free, form no conception of good and evil.
Baruch SpinozaFreedom is not given to us by anyone; we have to cultivate it ourselves. It is a daily practice… No one can prevent you from being aware of each step you take or each breath in and breath out.
Thich Nhat HanhIt will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood.
James MadisonMan lives freely only by his readiness to die, if need be, at the hands of his brother, never by killing him.
Mahatma GandhiThe United States of America will never be intimidated by thugs and assassins. The killers will fail, and the Iraqi people will live in freedom.
George W. BushIsrael was not created in order to disappear – Israel will endure and flourish. It is the child of hope and the home of the brave. It can neither be broken by adversity nor demoralized by success. It carries the shield of democracy and it honors the sword of freedom.
John F. Kennedy