You must love in such a way that the person you love feels free.
Thich Nhat HanhAll the great things are simple and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
Winston ChurchillA friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.
Jim MorrisonIf you love someone set them free. If they come back they're yours, if they don't they never were.
Richard BachSome books leave us free and some books make us free.
Ralph Waldo EmersonThose who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace.
BuddhaBe a lamp unto yourself. Work out your liberation with diligence.
BuddhaThose who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
Abraham LincolnNone but ourselves can free our minds.
Bob MarleyAs I would not be a slave so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
Abraham LincolnBooks are like imprisoned souls, till someone takes them down from a shelf and frees them.
Samuel ButlerDance, when you're broken open. Dance, if you've torn the bandage off. Dance in the middle of the fighting. Dance in your blood. Dance when you're perfectly free.
Jalaluddin RumiI do not care to know your various theories about God. What is the use of discussing all the subtle doctrines about the soul? Do good and be good. And this will take you to freedom and to whatever truth there is....
BuddhaEmancipate yourselves from mental slavery, none but ourselves can free our minds!
Bob MarleyWe are not actually equal - humanity - if we are not allowed to freely love one another.
Lady GagaFreedom is never dear at any price. It is the breath of life. What would a man not pay for living?
Mahatma GandhiWhere liberty is, there is my country.
Benjamin FranklinWhoever counters the malicious with malice can never be free, but one who feels no maliciousness pacifies those who hate. Hate brings misery to humanity, so the wise man knows no hatred
BuddhaFreedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.
Mahatma GandhiWith freedom, books, flowers, and the moon, who could not be happy?
Oscar WildeFor thought is a bird of space, that in a cage of words may indeed unfold its wings but cannot fly.
Kahlil GibranBetter to die fighting for freedom than be a prisoner all the days of your life.
Bob MarleyMy mother raised me, and then freed me.
Maya AngelouLife without liberty is like a body without spirit.
Kahlil GibranWrong is wrong only when you are at liberty to choose.
Rabindranath TagoreNo one loses anyone, because no one owns anyone. That is the true experience of freedom: having the most important thing in the world without owning it.
Paulo CoelhoI have found both freedom and safety in my madness; the freedom of loneliness and the safety from being understood, for those who understand us enslave something in us.
Kahlil GibranAll compromise is based on give and take, but there can be no give and take on fundamentals. Any compromise on mere fundamentals is a surrender. For it is all give and no take.
Mahatma GandhiI know of no country in which there is so little independence of mind and real freedom of discussion as in America.
Alexis de TocquevilleThere is a certain enthusiasm in liberty that makes human nature rise above itself in acts of bravery and heroism.
Alexander HamiltonI believe that in every country the people themselves are more peaceably and liberally inclined than their governments.
Franklin D. RooseveltFreedom itself was attacked this morning by a faceless coward, and freedom will be defended.
George W. BushWe have to believe in free-will. We've got no choice.
Isaac Bashevis SingerIt is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.
Mark TwainTo say that any people are not fit for freedom is to make poverty their choice, and to say they had rather be loaded with taxes than not.
Thomas PaineI am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination.
Albert EinsteinFirearms are second only to the Constitution in importance, they are the peoples' liberty's teeth.
George WashingtonWhat light is to the eyes - what air is to the lungs - what love is to the heart, liberty is to the soul of man.
Robert Green IngersollHe does not seem to me to be a free man who does not sometimes do nothing.
Marcus Tullius CiceroUnderlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.
Milton FriedmanI don't call myself a Buddhist. I'm a free spirit. I believe I'm here on earth to admire and enjoy it, that's my religion.
Alice WalkerDemocracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects, because men are equally free they claim to be absolutely equal.
AristotleWe must free ourselves of the hope that the sea will ever rest. We must learn to sail in high winds.
AristotleOf all the varieties of virtues liberalism is the most beloved.
AristotleLoyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.
Mark TwainI am able to love my God because He gives me freedom to deny Him.
Rabindranath TagoreFreedom is not the absence of commitments, but the ability to choose - and commit myself to - what is best for me.
Paulo CoelhoSome birds are not meant to be caged, that’s all. Their feathers are too bright, their songs too sweet and wild. So you let them go, or when you open the cage to feed them they somehow fly out past you. And the part of you that knows it was wrong to imprison them in the first place rejoices, but still, the place where you live is that much more drab and empty for their departure.
Stephen KingHistory suggests that capitalism is a necessary condition for political freedom. Clearly it is not a sufficient condition.
Milton FriedmanLove does not claim possession but gives freedom.
Rabindranath TagoreThe worst enemy of life freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy, their second worst enemy is total efficiency.
Aldous HuxleyThere are 4 billion cell phones in use today. Many of them are in the hands of market vendors rickshaw drivers and others who've historically lacked access to education and opportunity. Information networks have become a great leveler and we should use them together to help lift people out of poverty and give them a freedom from want.
Hillary ClintonFreedom and order are not incompatible... truth is strength... free discussion is the very life of truth.
Thomas HuxleyShall I tell you what the real evil is? To cringe to the things that are called evils to surrender to them our freedom in defiance of which we ought to face any suffering.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaI'm interested in anything about revolt disorder chaos especially activity that appears to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom.
Jim MorrisonOur inheritance of well founded slowly conceived codes of honor morals and manners the passionate convictions which so many hundreds of millions share together of freedom and justice are far more precious to us than anything which scientific discoveries can bestow.
Winston ChurchillReligious freedom opens a door for Americans that is closed to too many others around the world. But whether we walk through that door and what we do with our lives after we do is up to us.
Mitt RomneyFor 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.
Alice WalkerIf I am elected President of these United States I will work with all my energy and soul to restore that America to lift our eyes to a better future. That future is our destiny. That future is out there. It is waiting for us. Our children deserve it our nation depends upon it the peace and freedom of the world require it.
Mitt RomneyI had no idea of the enormous and unquestionably helpful part that humbug plays in the social life of great peoples dwelling in a state of democratic freedom.
Winston ChurchillWe can be thankful to a friend for a few acres or a little money, and yet for the freedom and command of the whole earth and for the great benefits of our being, our life, health and reason, we look upon ourselves as under no obligation.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaThe momentum of freedom in our world is unmistakable - and it is not carried forward by our power alone. We can trust in that greater power Who guides the unfolding of the years. And in all that is to come we can know that His purposes are just and true.
George W. BushFor more than four decades the Libyan people have been ruled by a tyrant - Moammar Gaddafi. He has denied his people freedom exploited their wealth murdered opponents at home and abroad and terrorized innocent people around the world - including Americans who were killed by Libyan agents.
Barack ObamaThe course of this conflict is not known yet its outcome is certain. Freedom and fear, justice and cruelty have always been at war, and we know that God is not neutral between them.
George W. BushEverywhere that freedom stirs let tyrants fear.
George W. BushThe success I have achieved in bodybuilding motion pictures and business would not have been possible without the generosity of the American people and the freedom here to pursue your dreams.
Arnold SchwarzeneggerIn South Africa we could not have achieved our freedom and just peace without the help of people around the world who through the use of non-violent means such as boycotts and divestment encouraged their governments and other corporate actors to reverse decades-long support for the Apartheid regime.
Desmond TutuWe the People recognize that we have responsibilities as well as rights, that our destinies are bound together, that a freedom which only asks what's in it for me a freedom without a commitment to others a freedom without love or charity or duty or patriotism is unworthy of our founding ideals and those who died in their defense.
Barack ObamaExpose yourself to your deepest fear, after that fear has no power and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.
Jim MorrisonYou don't have freedom because you are a hyphenated American, you have freedom because you are an individual and that should be protected.
Ron PaulThis is the highest wisdom that I own, freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheIn Franklin Roosevelt there died the greatest American friend we have ever known and the greatest champion of freedom who has ever brought help and comfort from the New World to the Old.
Winston ChurchillPersonal identity seems like it's just such an American archetype from Holly Golightly re-inventing herself in 'Breakfast At Tiffany's' to Jay Gatsby in 'The Great Gatsby.' It seems like the sort of archetypal American issue. If you're given the freedom to be anything or be anyone what do you do with it?
Chuck PalahniukSatisfaction consists in freedom from pain which is the positive element of life.
Arthur SchopenhauerThe wisest use of American strength is to advance freedom.
George W. BushThat's what we do in this country. That's the American Dream. That's freedom and I'll take it any day over the supervision and sanctimony of the central planners.
Paul RyanWe can't allow the world's worst leaders to blackmail threaten hold freedom-loving nations hostage with the world's worst weapons.
George W. BushI was interested by the idea that artists working in a totalitarian dictatorship or tsarist autocracy are secretly and slightly shamefully envied by artists who work in freedom. They have the gratification of intense interest: the authorities want to put them in jail while there are younger readers for whom what they write is pure oxygen.
Tom StoppardI am just absolutely convinced that the best formula for giving us peace and preserving the American way of life is freedom limited government and minding our own business overseas.
Ron PaulAt what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer if it ever reach us it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen we must live through all time or die by suicide.
Abraham Lincoln