“We believe it wrong ever to take a dollar from a free citizen without a very necessary public purpose, because each such taking diminishes the freedom to spend that dollar as its owner would prefer.”
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.
“Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor it must be demanded by the oppressed.”
“We believe it wrong ever to take a dollar from a free citizen without a very necessary public purpose, because each such taking diminishes the freedom to spend that dollar as its owner would prefer.”
“Every friend of freedom must be as revolted as I am by the prospect of turning the United States into an armed camp, by the vision of jails filled with casual drug users and of an army of enforcers empowered to invade the liberty of citizens on slight evidence.”
“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.”
“Eventually I want to be a full-time mother who works occasionally - and being an actor you have that freedom.”
“The thing is this: You got to have fun while you're fightin' for freedom, 'cause you don't always win.”
“Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same.”
“We believe in individual initiative, personal responsibility, opportunity, freedom, small government, the Constitution. These principles, these American principles are key to getting our economy back to being successful and leading the world.”
“The spread of freedom is the best security for the free.”
“Wealth is a tool of freedom, but the pursuit of wealth is the way to slavery.”
“Americans admire a people who can scratch a desert and produce a garden. The Israelis have shown qualities that Americans identify with: guts, patriotism, idealism, a passion for freedom. I have seen it. I know. I believe that.”
“Freedom is the most contagious virus known to man.”
“I've never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It's probably because they have forgotten their own.”
“When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more.”
“Only people who have been allowed to practise freedom can have the grown-up look in their eyes.”
“I always wanted to make a children's album because you have the freedom to explore so many wonderful topics and sounds.”