Quotes about Freedom

“The enemies of freedom will not prevail.”

“When I first started out in this music industry, I was most concerned with freedom. Freedom to produce, freedom to play all the instruments on my records, freedom to say anything I wanted to.”

“All free men, wherever they may live, are citizens of Berlin. And therefore, as a free man, I take pride in the words 'Ich bin ein Berliner!'”

“I know but one freedom, and that is the freedom of the mind.”

“When freedom does not have a purpose, when it does not wish to know anything about the rule of law engraved in the hearts of men and women, when it does not listen to the voice of conscience, it turns against humanity and society.”

“Wrist-spinners are mostly attacking, and when your captain is so attacking you get freedom to attack more.”

“I was named after the great emperor Cyrus as my father, Farokh Broacha, was a great admirer of the Persian emperor. Continuing the tradition, I have named my son after Mikhail Gorbachev, someone whom I admire. He gave his people freedom.”

“If we are to achieve freedom, we must do so with a daring and a profundity that refuse to flinch at engaging our destiny.”

“But I found that disappointing people is a good thing, because disapproval is freedom.”

“Freedom is priceless.”

“It requires greater courage to preserve inner freedom, to move on in one's inward journey into new realms, than to stand defiantly for outer freedom. It is often easier to play the martyr, as it is to be rash in battle.”

“I am an American. I love my country and have great hopes for it. It is for this reason that I speak candidly and sometimes critically about it. I have benefited greatly from the freedom that exists in my country, and for this, I am eternally grateful.”

“My father always said, 'Malala will be free as a bird.'”

“'Emergencies' have always been the pretext on which the safeguards of individual liberty have been eroded.”

“Although China is not so wealthy and powerful as the West, her people of whatever condition - rich or poor, high or low - all enjoy a perfect freedom and a happy life. Not so all the inhabitants of Western lands.”

“No protracted war can fail to endanger the freedom of a democratic country.”

“Resist this war on God, freedom of religion and freedom of speech.”

“We do not commonly see in a tax a diminution of freedom, and yet it clearly is one.”

“Within the soul of America is freedom of mind and spirit in man. Here alone are the open windows through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit. Here alone is human dignity not a dream but an accomplishment. Perhaps it is not perfect, but it is more full in realization here than any other place in the world.”

“Struggle is a never ending process. Freedom is never really won, you earn it and win it in every generation.”

“Without freedom of thought, there can be no such thing as wisdom - and no such thing as public liberty without freedom of speech.”