Famous Quotes

"I was 37 when my father died-and I no longer had any freedom of choice over what I would do with the rest of my life."

Paul Getty on Freedom

More quotes about Freedom

• "Freedom prospers when religion is vibrant and the rule of law under God is acknowledged."

  Ronald Reagan on Freedom

• "For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others."

  Nelson Mandela on Freedom

• "If you want total security, go to prison. There you're fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking... is freedom."

  Dwight D. Eisenhower on Freedom

• "I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do. I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do."

  Robert A. Heinlein on Freedom

• "Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err."

  Mahatma Gandhi on Freedom

More quotes by Paul Getty

• "The beauty one can find in art is one of the pitifully few real and lasting products of human endeavor."

• "My love of fine art increased - the more of it I saw, the more of it I wanted to see."

• "The beauty one can find in art is one of the pitifully few real and lasting products of human endeavor."

• "Rhetoric and dialectics can't change what I have learned from observation and experience."

• "A hatred of failure has always been part of my nature."