Famous Quotes & Sayings

Roy Scheider

Freedom is a muscle... you have to exercise it.

Lech Walesa

freedom came, but it is still hard to get bread.

Lykke Li

I always strive for freedom: freedom of thought and expression.

Brandon Roy

I wouldn't want to play in that system because I think they're too structured. It's too much that this guy is going to shoot on this play, or this guy is going to shoot on this play, instead of having a little more freedom offensively. But it works.

Mordechai Vanunu

If they will let me go, I would leave Israel immediately. I would like to see the world, to exercise my freedom.

Woody Allen

Some actors like the total freedom Woody gives them, but I like to have some parameters, some structure.

Jesse Ventura

shows that I support freedom and that no one is pulling my strings.

Jesse Jackson

She never stopped fighting, fundamentally in her own way, she was a freedom fighter.

I feel the Freedom, the team and the league, we have a great fit, including an owner who has done everything he said he'd do in relationship with Coliseum.

If investors are willing to fund the U.S. deficit, why wouldn't investors want to fund the press freedom deficit?

If, in the name of combating terrorism, we so restrict our own freedom, have we not thereby lost part of the very battle we seek to win?

I can't dream about immortal fireflies, but I can fight for human freedom.

Jesse Jackson

In politics, an organized minority is a political majority.

Herbert Hoover

A splendid storehouse of integrity and freedom has been bequeathed to us by our forefathers. In this day of confusion, of peril to liberty, our high duty is to see that this storehouse is not robbed of its contents.

Herbert Hoover

It is a paradox that every dictator has climbed to power on the ladder of free speech. Immediately on attaining power each dictator has suppressed all free speech except his own.

Felix Frankfurter

The ultimate foundation of a free society is the binding tie of cohesive sentiment.

Felix Frankfurter

Freedom of the press is not an end in itself but a means to the end of a free society.

Felix Frankfurter

Freedom of expression is the well-spring of our civilization... The history of civilization is in considerable measure the displacement of error which once held sway as official truth by beliefs which in turn have yielded to other truths. Therefore the liberty of man to search for truth ought not to be fettered, no matter what orthodoxies he may challenge.

Felix Frankfurter

The real rulers in Washington are invisible, and exercise power from behind the scenes.

Fannie Lou Hamer

if I fall, I will fall five-feet four-inches forward in the fight for freedom.

Fannie Lou Hamer

Nobody's free until everybody's free.

Eugene McCarthy

As long as the differences and diversities of mankind exist, democracy must allow for compromise, for accommodation, and for the recognition of differences.

Euripides

I would rather die on my feet than live on my knees.

Euripides

No one who lives in error is free.

Francis Picabia

A free spirit takes liberties even with liberty itself.

Francis Bacon

I foresee it and yet I hardly ever carry it out as I foresee it. It transforms itself by the actual paint. I don't in fact know very often what the paint will do, and it does many things which are very much better than I could make it do.

Frances Wright

To give liberty to a slave before he understands its value is, perhaps, rather to impose a penalty than to bestow a blessing ...

George Washington

As Mankind becomes more liberal, they will be more apt to allow that all those who conduct themselves as worthy members of the community are equally entitled to the protections of civil government. I hope ever to see America among the foremost nations of justice and liberality.

George Washington

A free people ought not only to be armed, but disciplined; to which end a uniform and well-digested plan is requisite.

George Washington

Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.

George Washington

The time is near at hand which must determine whether Americans are to be free men or slaves.

George Washington

If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.

George Santayana

Artists have no less talents than ever, their taste, their vision, their sentiment are often interesting; they are mighty in their independence and feeble only in their works.