Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sue Monk Kidd

I think the word 'freedom' is beautiful, not so much in its phonics, but just in the power of the word itself.

Benjamin Franklin

Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech.

Axel Munthe

The wild, cruel beast is not behind the bars of the cage. He is in front of it.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

Free speech is the bedrock of liberty and a free society. And yes, it includes the right to blaspheme and offend.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

Where there is no freedom of speech, there is no conscience.

Anton Chekhov

Pharisaism, obtuseness and tyranny reign not only in the homes of merchants and in jails; I see it in science, in literature, andamong youth. I consider any emblem or label a prejudice.... My holy of holies is the human body, health, intellect, talent, inspiration, love and the most absolute of freedoms, the freedom from force and falsity in whatever forms they might appear.

Anton Chekhov

I am not a liberal, not a conservative, not a believer in gradual progress, not a monk. I should like to be a free artist and nothing more.

Aung San Suu Kyi

The basis of democratic freedom is freedom of speech.

Aung San Suu Kyi

Please use your freedom to promote ours.

Aung San Suu Kyi

Democracy is when the people keep a government in check.

Bob Dylan

Without freedom of speech, I might be in the swamp

Bob Dylan

How many years can some people exist before they're allowed to be free...

Bob Dylan

There is nothing so stable as change.

Bob Dylan

No one is free, even the birds are chained to the sky.

Brad Thor

Freedom of speech includes the freedom to offend people.

Arthur Schopenhauer

It is only when a man is alone that he is really free.

Arthur Schopenhauer

He who does not enjoy solitude will not love freedom.

Arthur Schopenhauer

A man can be himself only so long as he is alone; and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom; for it is only when he is alone that he is really free.

Bruce Bartlett

Democrats will play the old Washington game of calling reductions in the rate of growth of spending for any program a 'cut'.

Edmund Spenser

Fondnesse it were for any being free, To covet fetters, though they golden bee.

Edmund Burke

Freedom and not servitude is the cure of anarchy; as religion, and not atheism, is the true remedy of superstition.

Edmund Burke

Depend upon it that the lovers of freedom will be free.

Edmund Burke

Laws, like houses, lean on one another.

Edmund Burke

To prove that the Americans ought not to be free, we are obliged to deprecate the value of freedom itself.

Edmund Burke

In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority.

Edmund Burke

Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.

Edmund Burke

Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.

Dennis Kucinich

There's a type of freedom that occurs when everything that you've believed in and worked for is shattered, because then you have the opportunity to rebuild and to put yourself back together in a new way.

Dennis Kucinich

That is the America which stands not in pursuit of an axis of evil, but which is itself at the axis of hope and faith and peace and freedom.

Deepak Chopra

When you are completely free from boundaries, you don't have to have a huge number of material things. You already own something far more precious. You own yourself.

Deepak Chopra

Being free brings a lightness, a carefree surrender to all that is happening around you, and, above all, an acceptance of reality.

Deepak Chopra

Forgiveness is attention without judgment. It heals the one who forgives and the one who is forgiven.

Edward Everett

Freedom may come quickly in robes of peace or after ages of conflict and war, but come it will, and abide it will, so long as the principles by which it was acquired are held sacred.