3 December 2020 Corliss Lamont True freedom is the capacity for acting according to one’s true character, to be altogether one’s self, to be self-determined and not subject to outside coercion.
3 December 2020 Charles Kuralt It was so much fun to have the freedom to wander America, with no assignments. For 25 or 30 years I never had an assignment. These were all stories I wanted to do myself.
3 December 2020 Richard Perle To stop terrorists before the strike, we must do three things: deny them entry into the country, curtail their freedom of action inside the country, and deprive them of material and moral support from within the country.
3 December 2020 Lech Walesa We hold our heads high, despite the price we have paid, because freedom is priceless.
3 December 2020 Alan Rickman I think there’s some connection between absolute discipline and absolute freedom.
3 December 2020 Rollo May Freedom is man’s capacity to take a hand in his own development. It is our capacity to mold ourselves.
3 December 2020 Vernon Howard Our freedom can be measured by the number of things we can walk away from.
3 December 2020 Jose Maria Aznar Without economic development, any potential for political openness and freedom will be questionable.
3 December 2020 Mahmoud Ahmadinejad People should have freedom in their pilgrimages and tours. They should come and visit historical monuments and sites – let’s say the sites around Iran – where they can easily engage in wide- scale contacts with others.
3 December 2020 Rollo May Human freedom involves our capacity to pause, to choose the one response toward which we wish to throw our weight.
3 December 2020 Emma Goldman The State is the altar of political freedom and, like the religious altar, it is maintained for the purpose of human sacrifice.
3 December 2020 Bernard Baruch In the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.
3 December 2020 Malcolm X You don’t have to be a man to fight for freedom. All you have to do is to be an intelligent human being.
3 December 2020 Rick Santorum Watching President Obama apologize last week for America’s arrogance – before a French audience that owes its freedom to the sacrifices of Americans – helped convince me that he has a deep-seated antipathy toward American values and traditions.
3 December 2020 Gerry Adams When others stood idly by, you and your families gave your all, in defence of a risen people and in pursuit of Irish freedom and unity.
3 December 2020 Douglas Horton As the fly bangs against the window attempting freedom while the door stands open, so we bang against death ignoring heaven.
3 December 2020 Ibrahim Babangida The challenge as we saw in the Nigerian project was to restructure the economy decisively in the direction of a modern free market as an appropriate environment for cultivation of freedom and democracy and the natural emergence of a new social order.
3 December 2020 Malcolm X If you’re not ready to die for it, put the word ‘freedom’ out of your vocabulary.
3 December 2020 Salman Rushdie What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.
3 December 2020 Jennifer Garner I’m privileged, because I have a lot of freedom. I want to use it to make as warm and normal a life as I can for our daughters.
3 December 2020 Coretta Scott King I believe all Americans who believe in freedom, tolerance and human rights have a responsibility to oppose bigotry and prejudice based on sexual orientation.
3 December 2020 Natan Sharansky I was inspired to write this book by those who are sceptical of the power of freedom to change the world.
3 December 2020 Marian Wright Edelman The Declaration of Independence was always our vision of who we wanted to be, our ideal of freedom and justice, how we were going to be different, and what the American experiment was going to be about.
3 December 2020 Hannah Arendt Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either lead into freedom or constitute a proof for its existence.
3 December 2020 W. Somerset Maugham Any nation that thinks more of its ease and comfort than its freedom will soon lose its freedom and the ironical thing about it is that it will lose its ease and comfort too.
3 December 2020 Suze Orman A big part of financial freedom is having your heart and mind free from worry about the what-ifs of life.
3 December 2020 Dave Brubeck Many people don’t understand how disciplined you have to be to play jazz… And that is really the idea of democracy – freedom within the Constitution or discipline. You don’t just get out there and do anything you want.
