Quotes about Freedom

True liberty consists only in the power of doing what we ought to will, and in not being constrained to do what we ought not to will.

True human goodness, in all its purity and freedom, can come to the fore only when its recipient has no power.

How often I have found that we grow to maturity not by doing what we like, but by doing what we should. How true it is that not every 'should' is a compulsion, and not every 'like' is a high morality and true freedom.

It is the truth of grace and not of the law that brings you true freedom. The truth of the law only binds you. In fact, religious bondage is one of the most crippling bondages with which a person can be encumbered. Religious bondage keeps one in constant fear, guilt, and anxiety.

I try to explain to people that the only way to be cool is to be who you truly are, and the only way to live life is to do the things that you want to do and be the person that you want to be no matter who that is or what that is or how you have to do it. That's the only way you can be genuinely happy.

When you force a man to act against his own choice and judgment, it's his thinking that you want him to suspend.

Food is strength, and food is peace, and food is freedom, and food is a helping hand to people around the world whose good will and friendship we want.

When people decide they want to be free, there is nothing that can stop them.

God wants to set the oppressed free from being oppressed and the oppressors free from oppressing.

God could have created us to be automatons who were always choosing the right side, making the right decision. It is an incredible thing, God said "I want persons" who therefore have freedom.

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.

True Wealth is being able to do what I want, when I want. If I can do that, I am wealthy.