Beware how you trifle with your marvelous inheritance, this great land of ordered liberty, for if we stumble and fall, freedom and civilization everywhere will go down in ruin. - Henry Cabot Lodge
It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature and everlasting beauty of monotony. - Benjamin Britten
I strongly support European sanctions against Mugabe and his ruling clique. We must do all in our power to help the people of Zimbabwe achieve their freedom and prosperity once again. - Peter Hain
Before anything else, we need a new age of Enlightenment. Our present political systems must relinquish their claims on truth, justice and freedom and have to replace them with the search for truth, justice, freedom and reason. - Friedrich Durrenmatt
Five or six hundred heads cut off would have assured your repose, freedom and happiness. - Jean-Paul Marat
If you allow one single germ, one single seed of slavery to remain in the soil of America... that germ will spring up, that noxious weed will thrive, and again stifle the growth, wither the leaves, blast the flowers and poison the fair fruits of freedom. - Ernestine L. Rose
Will they attack us? Yes. Will they smear our backgrounds and distort our records? Undoubtedly. Will they lie about us, harass our families, namecall to try to intimidate us? They will. There's nothing safe about it. But is it worth it? Well, let me ask you. Is freedom worth it? Is America worth it? - Christine O'Donnell
I believe in a religion that believes in freedom. Any time I have to accept a religion that won't let me fight a battle for my people, I say to hell with that religion. - Malcolm X
But in Christianity, by contrast, the freedom of the children of God was also freedom from all important worldly interests, from all art and science, etc. - Bruno Bauer
Neither the wording of the amendment itself nor common practice challenged the widely held belief that government guaranteed freedom of religion, not freedom from religion. - Linda Chavez
As human beings, we are endowed with freedom of choice, and we cannot shuffle off our responsibility upon the shoulders of God or nature. We must shoulder it ourselves. It is our responsibility. - Arnold J. Toynbee
I am somebody who... - I'm not saying I'm perfect, but I need that freedom, that ability to make mistakes out there. Because there's a fine line between making a mistake or being brilliant. - Tiffeny Milbrett
I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and democracy - but that could change. - Dan Quayle
I know what you're going to say! 'They are men, and men should be free.' A free man is dangerous to himself and everyone else. Freedom should be left to those who can put it to good use. - Dave Sim
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
In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I do not shrink from this responsibility - I welcome it. - John F. Kennedy
You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom. - Malcolm X
If you don't give your kid freedom to make choices with money, including stupid choices, he'll make plenty when he gets to college. - John Gardner
The 1957 crisis in Little Rock, brought about by the desegregation of Little Rock Central High School, was a huge part of the march toward freedom and opportunity in America. - Vic Snyder
For us democracy is a question of human dignity. And human dignity is political freedom. - Olof Palme
I loved the feeling of freedom in running, the fresh air, the feeling that the only person I'm competing with is me. - Wilma Rudolph
Much literary criticism comes from people for whom extreme specialization is a cover for either grave cerebral inadequacy or terminal laziness, the latter being a much cherished aspect of academic freedom. - John Kenneth Galbraith
I was intelligent enough to make up my own mind. I not only had freedom of choice, I had freedom of expression. - Amy Tan
Everywhere that the struggle for national freedom has triumphed, once the authorities agreed, there were military coups d'etat that overthrew their leaders. That is the result time and time again. - Ahmed Ben Bella
Is anarchism possible? The failure of attempts to attain freedom does not mean the cause is lost. - Johann Most