Famous Quotes & Sayings

Julian Bond

The civil rights movement didn't begin in Montgomery and it didn't end in the 1960s. It continues on to this very minute.

Julia Ward Howe

In the beauty of the lilies Christ was born across the sea, With a glory in his bosom that transfigures you and me; As he died to make men holy, let us die to make men free, While God is marching on.

Omar N. Bradley

Freedom-no word was ever spoken that has held out greater hope, demanded greater sacrifice, needed more to be nurtured, blessed more the giver. . . or came closer to being God's will on earth.

Oprah Winfrey

The only thing that can free you is the belief that you can be free.

Margaret Atwood

There is more than one kind of freedom," said Aunt Lydia. "Freedom to and freedom from. In the days of anarchy, it was freedom to. Now you are being given freedom from. Don't underrate it.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

To freemen, threats are impotent.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Freedom is a possession of inestimable value.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Freedom is a man's natural power of doing what he pleases, so far as he is not prevented by force or law.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

To freemen, threats are impotent. [Lat., Nulla enim minantis auctoritas apud liberos est.]

Marcus Tullius Cicero

The recovery of freedom is so splendid a thing that we must not shun even death when seeking to recover it.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

What is so beneficial to the people as liberty, which we see not only to be greedily sought after by men, but also by beasts, and to be prepared in all things.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Liberty is rendered even more precious by the recollection of servitude.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

It is as hard for the good to suspect evil, as it is for the bad to suspect good.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with keener fangs than freedom never endangered.

Margaret Chase Smith

Freedom unexercised may become freedom forfeited.

Marc Warren

I don't like planning, because it robs me of freedom, so I'd like a 24 hours that was full of surprises.

Paul Mooney

I do celebrate anything with freedom in it, you know.

Moira Kelly

I do have the freedom to choose what I want to do and I'll continue to do that.

Peter Thiel

I believe, basically, that individual freedom is very important.

Hubert H. Humphrey

Certainly one of the chief guarantees of freedom under any government, no matter how popular and respected, is the right of citizens to keep and bear arms.

Hubert H. Humphrey

Freedom is the most contagious virus known to man.

Euripides

This is slavery, not to speak one's thought.

Euripides

A slave is he who cannot speak his thoughts.

Euripides

No one is truly free, they are a slave to wealth, fortune, the law, or other people restraining them from acting according to their will.

Pablo Neruda

Now, on the road to freedom, I was pausing for a moment near Temuco and could hear the voice of the water that had taught me to sing.

safe in the knowledge that the honor and memory of those men who gave their lives for freedom on the Western Front has been preserved.

President Obama wants to increase the size of government and raise taxes, while I support less government and more individual freedom.

Richard Gere

This is an outrage. There are no freedoms in China. There are no freedoms in Tibet.

David Keene

This is not a partisan issue. It is an issue of safeguarding the fundamental freedoms of all Americans so that future administrations do not interpret our laws in ways that pose constitutional concerns.

Jack Clark

This is sacred ground today. The price of freedom is truly visible here today.

This is something we'll stop and do for you so that you can have the same freedom that we have.

There will be mass arrests, injuries and agony. But that is the price we should be prepared to pay for our freedom because next year we are going to be as confrontational as we have never been before.

This is very much a freedom of speech and freedom of information issue.