3 December 2020 Johnny Depp I was ecstatic they re-named ‘French Fries’ as ‘Freedom Fries’. Grown men and women in positions of power in the U.S. government showing themselves as idiots.
3 December 2020 Karl Marx Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.
3 December 2020 Marilyn vos Savant What is the essence of America? Finding and maintaining that perfect, delicate balance between freedom ‘to’ and freedom ‘from.’
3 December 2020 Felix Frankfurter Freedom of the press is not an end in itself but a means to the end of achieving a free society.
3 December 2020 John Locke The end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom. For in all the states of created beings capable of law, where there is no law, there is no freedom.
3 December 2020 Robert Dale Owen Fulfill – you can far more than fulfill – the brightest anticipations of those who, in the name of human freedom, and in the face of threats that have ripened into terrible realities since, fought that battle which placed you where you now stand.
3 December 2020 Robert Casey The abortion license has not brought freedom and security to women. Rather, it has ushered in a new era of irresponsibility toward women and children, one that now begins before birth.
3 December 2020 Kemal Ataturk A nation which makes the final sacrifice for life and freedom does not get beaten.
3 December 2020 Oliver Wendell Holmes If there is any principle of the Constitution that more imperatively calls for attachment than any other it is the principle of free thought, not free thought for those who agree with us but freedom for the thought that we hate.
3 December 2020 Muqtada al Sadr For us, holding on to religious rules, and following them, and refraining from what’s forbidden, and being diligent with our duties, what do we call that? That’s what we call freedom.
3 December 2020 Dan Quayle I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and democracy – but that could change.
3 December 2020 Esther Dyson But there is a corollary to freedom and that’s personal responsibility, and the real challenge is how you generate that personal responsibility without imposing it.
3 December 2020 Demi Moore Not caring more about what other people think than what you think. That’s freedom.
3 December 2020 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe He only earns his freedom and his life Who takes them every day by storm.
3 December 2020 Powell Clayton Freedom is an internal achievement rather than an external adjustment.
3 December 2020 Henry Cabot Lodge Strong, generous, and confident, she has nobly served mankind. Beware how you trifle with your marvellous inheritance, this great land of ordered liberty, for if we stumble and fall freedom and civilization everywhere will go down in ruin.
3 December 2020 Allen West As a 22-year Army Veteran who served in Operations Desert Storm and Iraqi Freedom, and as a Civilian Advisor to the Afghan Army in Operation Enduring Freedom, I understand both the gravity of giving the order, and the challenge of carrying it out.
3 December 2020 Anish Kapoor That freedom that Picasso afforded himself, to be an artist in a huge number of ways, seems to be a huge psychological liberation.
3 December 2020 Robert M. Gates I have always that there ought to be some kind of mandatory national service, not necessarily in the military but to show everybody that freedom isn’t free, that everybody has an obligation to the nation as a community.
3 December 2020 Theodore Roosevelt Freedom from effort in the present merely means that there has been effort stored up in the past.
3 December 2020 Steve Forbes We must guard against the overreaching hand of big government trying to take away our freedom. And we must always protect the environment in a manner consistent with our values.
3 December 2020 Lucius Annaeus Seneca Shall I tell you what the real evil is? To cringe to the things that are called evils, to surrender to them our freedom, in defiance of which we ought to face any suffering.
3 December 2020 Bede Griffiths Obedience is detachment from the self. This is the most radical detachment of all. But what is the self? The self is the principle of reason and responsibility in us. It is the root of freedom, it is what makes us men.
