3 December 2020 Wendell Willkie If we want to talk about freedom, we must mean freedom for others as well as ourselves, and we must mean freedom for everyone inside our frontiers as well as outside.
3 December 2020 Henri Frederic Amiel In health there is freedom. Health is the first of all liberties.
3 December 2020 Blake Shelton I love to deer hunt and fish and drive down the back roads in my truck. All those things basically equal freedom to me – and not having to return that message or call from my record company or management. At some point, I need to recharge.
3 December 2020 Jane Campion But short films are not inferior, just different. I think the short gives a freedom to film-makers. What’s appealing is that you don’t have as much responsibility for storytelling and plot. They can be more like a portrait, or a poem.
3 December 2020 Mary Wollstonecraft Women are degraded by the propensity to enjoy the present moment, and, at last, despise the freedom which they have not sufficient virtue to struggle to attain.
3 December 2020 Buddy Rich But, I don’t think any arranger should ever write a drum part for a drummer because if a drummer can’t create his own Interpretation of the chart and he plays everything that’s written, he becomes mechanical he has no freedom.
3 December 2020 Thomas Sowell What is ominous is the ease with which some people go from saying that they don’t like something to saying that the government should forbid it. When you go down that road, don’t expect freedom to survive very long.
3 December 2020 Willie Stargell Judgment traps you within the limitations of your comparisons. It inhibits freedom.
3 December 2020 David Herbert Lawrence Men are freest when they are most unconscious of freedom. The shout is a rattling of chains, always was.
3 December 2020 Anna Paquin It’s great to have the freedom to enjoy your work and not feel like you’re leaving your other life behind.
3 December 2020 Herbert Spencer Hero-worship is strongest where there is least regard for human freedom.
3 December 2020 William O. Douglas The right to be let alone is indeed the beginning of all freedoms.
3 December 2020 Friedrich August von Hayek Perhaps the fact that we have seen millions voting themselves into complete dependence on a tyrant has made our generation understand that to choose one’s government is not necessarily to secure freedom.
3 December 2020 Richard Cobden The progress of freedom depends more upon the maintenance of peace, the spread of commerce, and the diffusion of education, than upon the labors of cabinets and foreign offices.
3 December 2020 Christy Turlington I don’t think that artists of any kind would or could sacrifice their artistic freedom by being more responsible with their influence on people, especially young people.
3 December 2020 Steve Forbes As our federal government has grown too large and too powerful, the real loss has been the freedom of people to govern their own lives and participate fully in the American dream.
3 December 2020 Walter Koenig Religious tolerance is something we should all practice however, there have been more persecution and atrocities committed in the name of religion and religious freedom than anything else.
3 December 2020 Jimmy Wales I’m a big advocate of freedom: freedom of speech, freedom of expression, freedom of thought.
3 December 2020 Harriet Tubman I had crossed the line. I was free but there was no one to welcome me to the land of freedom. I was a stranger in a strange land.
3 December 2020 Bryant H. McGill It is better to lose everything you have to keep the balance of justice level, than to live a life of petty privilege devoid of true freedom.
3 December 2020 Coretta Scott King Freedom and justice cannot be parceled out in pieces to suit political convenience. I don’t believe you can stand for freedom for one group of people and deny it to others.
3 December 2020 Wendell Willkie But it required a disastrous, internecine war to bring this question of human freedom to a crisis, and the process of striking the shackles from the slave was accomplished in a single hour.
3 December 2020 B. R. Ambedkar So long as you do not achieve social liberty, whatever freedom is provided by the law is of no avail to you.
3 December 2020 Joe Biden Look, freedom is an overwhelming American notion. The idea that we want to see the world, the peoples of the world free is something that all of us subscribe to.
3 December 2020 Brent Scowcroft America has never seen itself as a national state like all others, but rather as an experiment in human freedom and democracy.
3 December 2020 Delphine de Girardin Men must stop being jealous of their power and generously allow freedom and responsibility to others. The reward is harmonious families and society.