Quotes about Freedom

“I was a pilot and flying hang gliders, paragliders, aerobatics airplanes, and then I discovered skydiving. Free fall. Free. With nothing around you, just a parachute on your back. And you go down. But you don't feel like you're going down. Total freedom.”

“In my youth I stressed freedom, and in my old age I stress order. I have made the great discovery that liberty is a product of order.”

“You can only be free if I am free.”

“We took the handcheck out of the game to give guys like Steph Curry more freedom. Why didn't we say, 'Just get in the weight room and get stronger?'”

“Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.”

“Bastard Freedom waves Her fustian flag in mockery over slaves.”

“Rock and roll music - the music of freedom frightens people and unleashes all manner of conservative defense mechanisms.”

“Every man must have the right fearlessly to think independently and express his opinion about what he knows, what he has personally thought about and experienced, and not merely to express with slightly different variations the opinion which has been inculcated in him.”

“I say let's go back to a truer use of the word 'freedom.' Let's start with President Franklin Roosevelt's Four Freedoms: freedom of speech and expression, freedom of worship, freedom from want and freedom from fear. I would add the freedom to bargain collectively. Those freedoms are under attack today.”

“Twenty-five million people who live in North Korea are denied freedom in every respect of their lives. In short, they are hostages. Imagine 25 million hostages.”

“Freedom is not worth fighting for if it means no more than license for everyone to get as much as he can for himself.”

“The more you practice, the better you get, the more freedom you have to create.”

“Wealth creation and job growth are nothing to be ashamed of, and the expression of economic creativity is a beautiful manifestation of freedom.”

“We have convinced over one billion members of the Islamic faith that we are prejudiced against their religion, that we would deny them freedom of religion, that we want suppress their culture and invade their governments.”

“The best way to enhance freedom in other lands is to demonstrate here that our democratic system is worthy of emulation.”

“Freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed choices.”

“Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better.”

“Human rights are standards of behavior that are inherent in every human being. They are the core principles underpinning human interaction in society. These include liberty, due process or justice, and freedom of religious beliefs. I find little sympathy with efforts to try to equate Internet access with these higher, fundamental concepts.”

“I'm not sure if it's good to have freedom or not. I'm really confused now.”

“I have never been able to renounce the light, the pleasure of being, and the freedom in which I grew up.”

“You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on having both at once.”