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- The freedom to criticize judges and other public officials is necessary to a vibrant democracy. The problem comes when healthy criticism is replaced with more destructive intimidation and sanctions.
- Sandra Day O'Connor on Freedom
- The freedom to fail is vital if you're going to succeed. Most successful people fail from time to time, and it is a measure of their strength that failure merely propels them into some new attempt at success.
- Michael Korda on Freedom
- The general interest of the masses might take the place of the insight of genius if it were allowed freedom of action.
- Denis Diderot on Freedom
- The greatest blessing of our democracy is freedom. But in the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.
- Bernard Baruch on Freedom
- The greatest enemy of individual freedom is the individual himself.
- Saul Alinsky on Freedom
- The greatest threat to freedom is the absence of criticism.
- Wole Soyinka on Freedom
- The higher one climbs on the spiritual ladder, the more they will grant others their own freedom, and give less interference to another's state of consciousness.
- Paul Twitchell on Freedom
- The history of the world is none other than the progress of the consciousness of freedom.
- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel on Freedom
- The hope and change the Democrats had in mind was nothing more than a retread of the failed and discredited socialist policies that have been the enemy of freedom for centuries all over the world. I fear America is teetering towards tyranny.
- Jim DeMint on Freedom
- The hope of the nation which throughout the nineteenth century had not for a moment reconciled itself with the loss of independence, and fighting for its own freedom, fought at the same time for the freedom of other nations.
- Lech Walesa on Freedom
- The humor is essentially dark for a cartoon and sophisticated. But at the same time, being a cartoon gives the writers more freedom than in a normal sitcom. It always pushes the line that, despite human failings, the Simpsons are really decent people.
- Dan Castellaneta on Freedom
- The idea that men are created free and equal is both true and misleading: men are created different they lose their social freedom and their individual autonomy in seeking to become like each other.
- David Riesman on Freedom
- The increased presence of Muslims in Italy and in Europe is directly proportional to our loss of freedom.
- Oriana Fallaci on Freedom
- The intense happiness of our union is derived in a high degree from the perfect freedom with which we each follow and declare our own impressions.
- George Eliot on Freedom
- The Jewish festival of freedom is the oldest continuously observed religious ritual in the world. Across the centuries, Passover has never lost its power to inspire the imagination of successive generations of Jews with its annually re-enacted drama of slavery and liberation.
- Jonathan Sacks on Freedom
- The job of training an Iraqi police force is one of the most important tasks being undertaken in Operation Iraqi Freedom. It is also one of the most difficult.
- John Boehner on Freedom
- The Law of God reaches into every area of life, and it brings about incredible blessing and incredible freedom.
- Randall Terry on Freedom
- The legal difference between the sit-ins and the Freedom Riders was significant.
- Constance Baker Motley on Freedom
- The liberals think government exists to fix what's wrong with America. They find fault with our Constitution, our economic model and our core values. We disagree with the premise of their argument. We believe there's nothing wrong with America that an extra dose of freedom won't cure.
- Rick Perry on Freedom
- The liberties of our country, the freedom of our civil constitution, are worth defending against all hazards: And it is our duty to defend them against all attacks.
- Samuel Adams on Freedom
- The link between my experience as an entrepreneur and that of a politician is all in one word: freedom.
- Silvio Berlusconi on Freedom
- The magic of America is that we're a free and open society with a mixed population. Part of our security is our freedom.
- Madeleine Albright on Freedom
- The main thing I believe in is freedom.
- Charles Evers on Freedom
- The man form is higher than the angel form of all forms it is the highest. Man is the highest being in creation, because he aspires to freedom.
- Paramahansa Yogananda on Freedom
- The media bring our wars home, but only rarely have they been able to do it in complete freedom.
- Bruce Jackson on Freedom
- The men and women who serve in our military have won for us every hour we live in freedom, sometimes at the expense of the very hours of the lifetimes they had hoped to live.
- The message of Passover remains as powerful as ever. Freedom is won not on the battlefield but in the classroom and the home. Teach your children the history of freedom if you want them never to lose it.
- Jonathan Sacks on Freedom
- The Middle East is ailing. The malady stems from pervasive violence, shortages of food, water and educational opportunities, discrimination against women and - the most virulent cause of all - the absence of freedom.
- Shimon Peres on Freedom
- The momentum of freedom in our world is unmistakable - and it is not carried forward by our power alone. We can trust in that greater power Who guides the unfolding of the years. And in all that is to come, we can know that His purposes are just and true.
- George W. Bush on Freedom
- The more decisions that you are forced to make alone, the more you are aware of your freedom to choose.
- Thornton Wilder on Freedom
- The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask.
- Jim Morrison on Freedom
- The new freedom of expression brought by the Internet goes far beyond politics. People relate to each other in new ways, posing questions about how we should respond to people when all that we know about them is what we have learned through a medium that permits all kinds of anonymity and deception.
- Peter Singer on Freedom
- The nice thing about the Bible is it doesn't give you too many facts. Two an a half lines and it tells you the whole story and that leaves you a great deal of freedom to elaborate on how it might have happened.
- Howard Nemerov on Freedom
- The old Romans all wished to have a king over them because they had not yet tasted the sweetness of freedom.
- Titus Livius on Freedom
- The only certain freedom's in departure.
- Robert Frost on Freedom
- The only freedom I care about is the freedom to do right the freedom to do wrong I am ready to part with on the cheapest terms to anyone who will take it of me.
- Thomas Huxley on Freedom
- The only freedom which deserves the name is that of pursuing our own good, in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs, or impede their efforts to obtain it.
- John Stuart Mill on Freedom
- The only sure bulwark of continuing liberty is a government strong enough to protect the interests of the people, and a people strong enough and well enough informed to maintain its sovereign control over the goverment.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt on Freedom
- The only thing money gives you is the freedom of not worrying about money.
- Johnny Carson on Freedom
- The only way that has ever been discovered to have a lot of people cooperate together voluntarily is through the free market. And that's why it's so essential to preserving individual freedom.
- Milton Friedman on Freedom
- The path we have chosen for the present is full of hazards, as all paths are. The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission.
- John F. Kennedy on Freedom
- The people of the Middle East share the desire for freedom. We have an opportunity - and an obligation - to help them turn this desire into reality.
- Condoleezza Rice on Freedom
- The people who are competing business-wise out there want what other successful labels and artists have. I don't want what they have I want my own path, my own sound, my own identity. Record labels care nothing about identity or artistic freedom, they want good business.
- Joe Nichols on Freedom
- The perfection of our union, especially our commitment to equality of opportunity, has been a story of constant striving to live up to our Founding principles. This is what Abraham Lincoln meant when he said, 'In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free - honorable alike in what we give, and what we preserve.'
- The pillars of truth and the pillars of freedom - they are the pillars of society.
- Henrik Ibsen on Freedom
- The political core of any movement for freedom in the society has to have the political imperative to protect free speech.
- Bell Hooks on Freedom
- The precondition to freedom is security.
- Rand Beers on Freedom
- The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
- Desmond Tutu on Freedom
- The problem of the world today is the people talk on and on about democracy, freedom, justice. But I don't give a damn about democracy if I am worried about survival.
- Imelda Marcos on Freedom
- 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.
- Richard Cobden on Freedom
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