Best Freedom Quotes | Freedom Of Speech Quotes

The road to freedom lies not through mysteries or occult performances, but through the intelligent use of natural forces and laws. -Ernest Holmes

True human goodness, in all its purity and freedom, can come to the fore only when its recipient has no power. -Milan Kundera

Hero-worship is strongest where there is least regard for human freedom. -Herbert Spencer

America is just the country that how all the written guarantees in the world for freedom are no protection against tyranny and oppression of the worst kind. There the politician has come to be looked upon as the very scum of society. -Peter Kropotkin

A lot of people out there pay good lip service to the idea of personal freedom… right up to the point that someone tries to do something that they don’t personally approve of. -Neal Boortz

The Ego is partly free. partly determined, and reaches fuller freedom by approaching the Individual who is most free: God. -Muhammad Iqbal

Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in his never wholly successful attempts to liberate himself from necessity. -Hannah Arendt

The cause of freedom is not the cause of a race or a sect, a party or a class-it is the cause of human kind, the very birthright of humanity. -Anna Julia Cooper

We call our country home of the brave and land of the free, but it’s not. We give a false portrayal of freedom. We’re not free – if we were, we’d allow people their freedom. -Jesse Ventura

The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom. -Lady Bird Johnson

We know what works. Freedom Works. We know what’s right. Freedom is right. -George H. W. Bush

To me, the American Dream is being able to follow your own personal calling. To be able to do what you want to do is incredible freedom. -Maya Lin

I can remember when Democrats believed that it was the duty of America to fight for freedom over tyranny. -Zell Miller(Freedom quotes)

We need the children of Indonesia and the Philippines to manufacture our freedom of choice. -Marc Maron

And we can celebrate when we have a government that has earned back the trust of the people it serves… when we have a government that honors our Constitution and stands up for the values that have made America, America: economic freedom, individual liberty, and personal responsibility. -John Boehner

Hamas is a terrorist organization dedicated to annihilating the Jewish state. It runs a theocratic totalitarian state in Gaza, with no individual liberty, and no freedom of speech or press. -Dennis Prager

The current total of countries in the world with First Amendments is one. You have guaranteed freedom of speech. Other countries don’t have that. -Neil Gaiman

We know there is no such thing as freedom without the risk of failure. -Rick Perry

Fortunately, somewhere between chance and mystery lies imagination, the only thing that protects our freedom, despite the fact that people keep trying to reduce it or kill it off altogether. -Luis Bunuel

But if people want to swim in the Thames, if they want to take their lives into their own hands, then they should be able to do so with all the freedom and exhilaration of our woad-painted ancestors. -Boris Johnson

We in the United States should be all the more thankful for the freedom and religious tolerance we enjoy. And we should always remember the lessons learned from the Holocaust, in hopes we stay vigilant against such inhumanity now and in the future. -Charlie Dent

A nice, easy place for freedom of speech to be eroded is comics, because comics are a natural target whenever an election comes up. -Neil Gaiman

I had spent many years pursuing excellence, because that is what classical music is all about… Now it was dedicated to freedom, and that was far more important. -Nina Simone

There are lots of people out there who think they know the truth about God and religion, but does anybody really know for sure? That’s why the founding fathers built freedom of religious belief into the structure of this nation, so that everybody could make up their minds for themselves. -Jesse Ventura

True freedom requires the rule of law and justice, and a judicial system in which the rights of some are not secured by the denial of rights to others. -Jonathan Sacks

The idea that men are created free and equal is both true and misleading: men are created different they lose their social freedom and their individual autonomy in seeking to become like each other. -David Riesman

It was so much fun to have the freedom to wander America, with no assignments. For 25 or 30 years I never had an assignment. These were all stories I wanted to do myself. -Charles Kuralt

Freedom cannot be given… It can only be taken away. -David Allan Coe

As long as there is rape… there is not going to be any peace or justice or equality or freedom. You are not going to become what you want to become or who you want to become. You are not going to live in the world you want to live in. -Andrea Dworkin

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. -David Byrne

The magic of America is that we’re a free and open society with a mixed population. Part of our security is our freedom. -Madeleine Albright

Remove advertising, disable a person or firm from proclaiming its wares and their merits, and the whole of society and of the economy is transformed. The enemies of advertising are the enemies of freedom. -David Ogilvy

Freedom quotes-Most men, after a little freedom, have preferred authority with the consoling assurances and the economy of effort it brings. -Walter Lippmann

So the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund is out there preserving and fighting for, and sometimes winning and sometimes losing, the fight for First Amendment rights in comics and, more generally, for freedom of speech. -Neil Gaiman

To be honest, I’ve always had far too much freedom. I had a job when I was 10. I started living on my own when I was 17 or 18. I’ve earned my own money I’ve traveled the world. What would I rebel against? -Emma Watson

I’m a multidimensional person and that’s the freedom of fashion: that you’re able to reinvent yourself through how you dress and how you cut your hair or whatever. -Emma Watson

No one who has lived even for a fleeting moment for something other than life in its conventional sense and has experienced the exaltation that this feeling produces can then renounce his new freedom so easily. -Andre Breton

It is exactly because we are a city that embraces freedom, that welcomes everyone and encourages their dreams, that New York remains on the front lines in the war on terror. -Michael Bloomberg

Ironically, it is exactly because we are a city that embraces freedom, that welcomes everyone and encourages their dreams, that New York remains on the front lines in the war on terror. -Michael Bloomberg

I do think there are certain times we should infringe on your freedom. -Michael Bloomberg

The freedom to criticize judges and other public officials is necessary to a vibrant democracy. The problem comes when healthy criticism is replaced with more destructive intimidation and sanctions. -Sandra Day O’Connor

I love the freedom of movement that my phone gives me. That has definitely transformed my life. -Richard Branson

Until you have lost your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was or what freedom really is. -Margaret Mitchell

Ruin is the destination toward which all men rush, each pursuing his own best interest in a society that believes in the freedom of the commons. -Garrett Hardin

Freedom in a commons brings ruin to all. -Garrett Hardin

Freedom is the emancipation from the arbitrary rule of other men. -Mortimer Adler

The greatest enemy of individual freedom is the individual himself. -Saul Alinsky

I try to give the media as many confusing images as I can to retain my freedom. What’s real is for my children and the people I live with. -Sting

It is not the simple statement of facts that ushers in freedom it is the constant repetition of them that has this liberating effect. Tolerance is the result not of enlightenment, but of boredom. -Quentin Crisp

The American dream is about freedom. -Nancy Pelosi

Freedom is secured every day by our men and women in uniform. We must build a future worthy of their sacrifice. -Nancy Pelosi

I love to deer hunt and fish and drive down the back roads in my truck. All those things basically equal freedom to me – and not having to return that message or call from my record company or management. At some point, I need to recharge. -Blake Shelton

Institutions – government, churches, industries, and the like – have properly no other function than to contribute to human freedom and in so far as they fail, on the whole, to perform this function, they are wrong and need reconstruction. -Charles Horton Cooley

Freedom is such a gift. -Ryan Gosling

It is the people who scream the loudest about America and Freedom who see to be the most intolerant for a differing point of view. -Rosanne Cash

To me, punk rock is the freedom to create, freedom to be successful, freedom to not be successful, freedom to be who you are. It’s freedom. -Patti Smith

So sometimes the facts are good and sometimes the facts are bad, the important thing from the point of view of a principle as broad and important as freedom of speech is that the courts articulate and set forth in a very protective way what those principles are. -Floyd Abrams