Quotes about Freedom

In necessary things, unity; in doubtful things, liberty; in all things, charity.

Whosoever would be a man must be a non-conformist.

Outside, among your fellows, among strangers, you must preserve appearances, 100 things you cannot do; but inside, the terrible freedom!

I will embarrass my kids to their core. I will threaten to show up in hot pants and a tube top. Their dad will drive me. And he'll let me and my friend Lisa get pretty drunk in the backseat, and we will come into that party and just rip it up.

Artists should be free to create what we want. I believe there's a special value in work that is a reflection of oneself as opposed to interpretation. When I see a film or a TV show about black people not written by someone who's black, it's an interpretation of that life.

I'm mindful in a free society that people can worship if they want to or not. You're equally an American if you choose to worship an almighty and if you choose not to.

I believe in the universality of freedom and therefore want to be involved in the freedom movement.

It should be the right of the individual to decide whether he wants to belong to a union.

The mind in itself wants nothing, unless it creates a want for itself; therefore it is both free from perturbation and unimpeded, if it does not perturb and impede itself.

The fact is, my friends, most Americans don't want more government. They want less government.

Nobody can change your religion unless you want to and God gives you the grace. It's between you and God alone. Nobody can force you.

The solemn pride that must be yours to have laid so costly a sacrifice upon the altar of freedom.