938 private quotes tagged freedom

“Even before I knew I was gay, I knew I didn't want to have a child. I knew I didn't want to have one. I never want to have to release it from me. Listen, I love babies. I love children. And I melt when I'm around them. I also love my freedom and I love that I can sleep at night.”— Ellen DeGeneres

“We will not be intimidated or pushed off the world stage by people who do not like what we stand for, and that is, freedom, democracy and the fight against disease, poverty and terrorism.”— Madeleine Albright

“To be able to love and live in freedom means to be able to make godly decisions. To make godly decisions we have to surrender our egos and all the falsity and shame that goes with it.”— James McGreevey

“American and Israel share a special bond. Our relationship is unique among all nations. Like America, Israel is a strong democracy, a symbol of freedom, and an oasis of liberty, a home to the oppressed and persecuted.”— William J. Clinton

“Freedom of speech is always under attack by Fascist mentality, which exists in all parts of the world, unfortunately.”— Lawrence Ferlinghetti

“Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one.”— A. J. Liebling

“America's greatness has been the greatness of a free people who shared certain moral commitments. Freedom without moral commitment is aimless and promptly self-destructive.”— John W. Gardner

“I love music. It's freedom, a way to deal with pent-up frustration.”— Ice Cube

“While the State exists there can be no freedom when there is freedom there will be no State.”— Vladimir Lenin

“Do not allow to slip away from you freedoms the people who came before you won with such hard knocks.”— David Herbert Lawrence

“America, to me, is freedom.”— Willie Nelson

“Justice is never given it is exacted and the struggle must be continuous for freedom is never a final fact, but a continuing evolving process to higher and higher levels of human, social, economic, political and religious relationship.”— A. Philip Randolph

“I believe that God has planted in every heart the desire to live in freedom.”— George W. Bush

“137 years later, Memorial Day remains one of America's most cherished patriotic observances. The spirit of this day has not changed - it remains a day to honor those who died defending our freedom and democracy.”— Doc Hastings

“We are willing enough to praise freedom when she is safely tucked away in the past and cannot be a nuisance. In the present, amidst dangers whose outcome we cannot foresee, we get nervous about her, and admit censorship.”— E. M. Forster

“Freedom is the only law which genius knows.”— James Russell Lowell

“Freedom is control in your own life.”— Willie Nelson

“It is crucial that members of Congress cast votes that are supportive of the values upon which our nation was founded: equality, freedom, and opportunity for all people.”— Joe Baca

“I am conservative with a small 'c.' It's possible to be conservative in fiscal policy, and tolerant on moral issues or questions of freedom of expression.”— Mick Jagger

“No amount of political freedom will satisfy the hungry masses.”— Vladimir Lenin

“I am truly free only when all human beings, men and women, are equally free. The freedom of other men, far from negating or limiting my freedom, is, on the contrary, its necessary premise and confirmation.”— Mikhail Bakunin

“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.”— George W. Bush

“True independence and freedom can only exist in doing what's right.”— Brigham Young

“Today's Constitution is a realistic document of freedom only because of several corrective amendments. Those amendments speak to a sense of decency and fairness that I and other Blacks cherish.”— Thurgood Marshall

“Free speech carries with it some freedom to listen.”— Warren E. Burger