“There are two good things in life - freedom of thought and freedom of action.”
Freedom is one of those words that everyone values and nobody defines the same way. These quotes explore liberty, independence, autonomy, and the tension between personal freedom and collective responsibility.
“For in the end, freedom is a personal and lonely battle and one faces down fears of today so that those of tomorrow might be engaged.”
“There are two good things in life - freedom of thought and freedom of action.”
“The United States is a giant island of freedom, achievement, wealth and prosperity in a world hostile to our values.”
“Freedom in a commons brings ruin to all.”
“That's why I like fast film. It gives you more freedom to light more naturally.”
“I think there's some connection between absolute discipline and absolute freedom.”
“Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride.”
“My daughters, your daughters, our daughters deserve safety, protection, and the freedom to make their own choices about their personal lives and their physical selves.”
“The nice thing about the Bible is it doesn't give you too many facts. Two an a half lines and it tells you the whole story and that leaves you a great deal of freedom to elaborate on how it might have happened.”
“It is hard to know how many people do, but given that the people are so docile towards the rulers, nowadays, very few Americans show the passion for freedom that our forefathers had.”
“There are few things in politics more annoying than the Right's utter conviction that it owns the patent on the word 'freedom' that when its leaders stand up for the rights of banks to be unregulated or capital gains to be untaxed, that it is actually and obviously standing up for human liberty, the noblest cause of them all.”
“Israel was not created in order to disappear - Israel will endure and flourish. It is the child of hope and the home of the brave. It can neither be broken by adversity nor demoralized by success. It carries the shield of democracy and it honors the sword of freedom.”
“How does the Meadow flower its bloom unfold? Because the lovely little flower is free down to its root, and in that freedom bold.”
“Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better.”
“The wisest use of American strength is to advance freedom.”
“Back a hundred years ago, especially around Woodrow Wilson, what happened in this country is we took freedom and we chopped it into pieces.”