freedom quotes

A consistent anarchist must oppose private ownership of the means of production, and the wage-slavery which is a component of this system, as incompatible with the principle that labor must be freely undertaken and under the control of the producer.

One should respect public opinion insofar as is necessary to avoid starvation and keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny.

Cassius Clay is a name that white people gave to my slave master. Now that I am free, that I don’t belong anymore to anyone, that I’m not a slave anymore, I gave back their white name, and I chose a beautiful African one.

What’s real freedom? Real freedom is being able to not have my way and still be just as happy as if I did.

In this possibly terminal phase of human existence, democracy and freedom are more than just ideals to be valued – they may be essential to survival.

I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it.

You don’t have to be like everybody else or do things like everybody else. God created you to be a unique individual, and He wants you to be free to be who He made you to be.

Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.

Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.

America is a friend to the people of Iraq. Our demands are directed only at the regime that enslaves them and threatens us. When these demands are met, the first and greatest benefit will come to Iraqi men, women and children.

For me, genres are a way for people to easily categorize music. But it doesn’t have to define you. It doesn’t have to limit you.

The wisest use of American strength is to advance freedom.

We must be willing to pay a price for freedom.

I don’t have freedom in the United States to go into a public school and preach the Gospel, nor is a student free in a public school to pray, or a teacher free to read the Bible publicly to the students. At the same time, we have a great degree of freedom for which I am grateful.

If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.

Some books leave us free and some books make us free.

How wonderful it is to be an American. We have known the best of times and the worst of times.

When I am free to train and free to move, I feel like a gorilla in the jungle. Then, when there are a bunch of media obligations, I feel like I have been captured and am being kept on display.

All government, of course, is against liberty.

I don’t live by all these rigid, weird rules that make me feel all fenced in. I just like the way that I feel like, and that makes me feel very free.

A wise and frugal government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned.

The United States of America will never be intimidated by thugs and assassins. The killers will fail, and the Iraqi people will live in freedom.

I have no fear that the result of our experiment will be that men may be trusted to govern themselves without a master.

Freedom from effort in the present merely means that there has been effort stored up in the past.

Rebellion 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.

I sent American troops to Iraq to make its people free, not to make them American. Iraqis will write their own history and find their own way.

The momentum of freedom in our world is unmistakable – and it is not carried forward by our power alone. We can trust in that greater power Who guides the unfolding of the years. And in all that is to come, we can know that His purposes are just and true.

Religion has the right to express its opinion in the service of the people, but God in creation has set us free: it is not possible to interfere spiritually in the life of a person.

I know I got it made while the masses of black people are catchin‘ hell, but as long as they ain’t free, I ain’t free.

America is a poem in our eyes; its ample geography dazzles the imagination, and it will not wait long for metres.

For a people who are free, and who mean to remain so, a well-organized and armed militia is their best security.

In the literal sense, there has been no relevant evolution since the trek from Africa. But there has been substantial progress towards higher standards of rights, justice and freedom – along with all too many illustrations of how remote is the goal of a decent society.

In many respects, the United States is a great country. Freedom of speech is protected more than in any other country. It is also a very free society.

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.

Taste cannot be controlled by law.

The intense happiness of our union is derived in a high degree from the perfect freedom with which we each follow and declare our own impressions.

The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time.

White people just don’t want their slaves to be free. That’s the whole thing.

This young century will be liberty’s century.

Judge Afiuni has suffered enough. She has been subject to acts of violence and humiliations to undermine her human dignity. I am convinced that she must be set free.

There’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.

Freedom comes only to those who no longer ask of life that it shall yield them any of those personal goods that are subject to the mutations of time.

In the flush of love’s light, we dare be brave. And suddenly we see that love costs all we are, and will ever be. Yet it is only love which sets us free.

We will not waver; we will not tire; we will not falter, and we will not fail. Peace and Freedom will prevail.

We are not to expect to be translated from despotism to liberty in a featherbed.

We can’t allow the world’s worst leaders to blackmail, threaten, hold freedom-loving nations hostage with the world’s worst weapons.

Men’s actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted, and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.

The revelation of thought takes men out of servitude into freedom.

I think we must get rid of slavery, or we must get rid of freedom.

In the United States, we can do almost anything we want. It’s not like Egypt, where you’re going to get murdered by the security forces.

No freeman shall be debarred the use of arms.

The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive.

Each time we cooperate with God, we take one more giant step forward. Because when God asks us to change, it means that He always has something better to give us – more freedom, greater joy, and greater blessings.

Fighting for one’s freedom, struggling towards being free, is like struggling to be a poet or a good Christian or a good Jew or a good Muslim or good Zen Buddhist. You work all day long and achieve some kind of level of success by nightfall, go to sleep and wake up the next morning with the job still to be done. So you start all over again.

Liberty is the right to do what I like; license, the right to do what you like.

Freedom is something that dies unless it’s used.

The law will never make a man free; it is men who have got to make the law free.

If you are living out of a sense of obligation you are slave.

The only certain freedom’s in departure.

Freedom is relative.