3 December 2020 Emmylou Harris I have just enough people paying attention that I have the freedom to be in charge. And I have a great record company – Nonesuch understands what I’m about.
3 December 2020 Mike Huckabee I wish we would all remember that being American is not just about the freedom we have it is about those who gave it to us.
3 December 2020 Dalai Lama China has to go along with world trends. That’s democracy, liberty, individual freedom. China sooner or later has to go that way. It cannot go backward.
3 December 2020 Richard Stallman In the free/libre software movement, we develop software that respects users’ freedom, so we and you can escape from software that doesn’t.
3 December 2020 Boris Yeltsin We don’t appreciate what we have until it’s gone. Freedom is like that. It’s like air. When you have it, you don’t notice it.
3 December 2020 Larry Flynt Well, one thing, you got to stand in a courtroom and listen to a judge sentencing you to 25 years in prison before you realize that freedom of expression can no longer be taken for granted.
3 December 2020 Phyllis Schlafly The United States is a giant island of freedom, achievement, wealth and prosperity in a world hostile to our values.
3 December 2020 Russell Pearce You know, you don’t retreat in the defense of freedom. You don’t retreat in the defense of moral government and limited government. You don’t retreat because people are going to defend bad things.
3 December 2020 Titus Livius The old Romans all wished to have a king over them because they had not yet tasted the sweetness of freedom.
3 December 2020 Germaine Greer Freedom is fragile and must be protected. To sacrifice it, even as a temporary measure, is to betray it.
3 December 2020 Jon Stewart If the events of September 11, 2001, have proven anything, it’s that the terrorists can attack us, but they can’t take away what makes us American – our freedom, our liberty, our civil rights. No, only Attorney General John Ashcroft can do that.
3 December 2020 John Linder Our soldiers have nobly fought to protect freedom since our country’s birth, and have fought to protect those that could not protect themselves, even in foreign lands when called upon.
3 December 2020 Friedrich August von Hayek Freedom granted only when it is known beforehand that its effects will be beneficial is not freedom.
3 December 2020 Barry White As a boy, I believed freedom for America meant freedom for me. There was a time I believed every word spoken.
3 December 2020 Glenn Beck We’re giving our freedoms away. The American experiment was about freedom. Freedom to be stupid, freedom to fail, freedom to succeed.
3 December 2020 George Pataki After the tragedy, New Yorkers are more united than ever in their vision, as well as in appreciation what living in freedom means – and that if we stand together, we can accomplish anything.
3 December 2020 Hannah Arendt Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in his never wholly successful attempts to liberate himself from necessity.
3 December 2020 Quentin Tarantino Novelists have always had complete freedom to pretty much tell their story any way they saw fit. And that’s what I’m trying to do.
3 December 2020 Wendell Willkie When we talk of freedom and opportunity for all nations, the mocking paradoxes in our own society become so clear they can no longer be ignored.
3 December 2020 Roger Stone How can you be conservative and justify wiretapping people without a warrant? We’re supposed to be the party of personal freedom and civil liberties.
3 December 2020 Alice Walker For 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.
3 December 2020 Hans Christian Andersen Just living is not enough. One must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.
3 December 2020 John Stuart Mill Pleasure and freedom from pain, are the only things desirable as ends.
3 December 2020 Margaret Atwood I’ve never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It’s probably because they have forgotten their own.
