We can't equate democracy with Christianity because the largest democracy on earth is India which is primarily Hindu. The third largest democracy is Indonesia which is Islamic. Democracy and freedom are not dependent on Christian beliefs.
I have no choice about whether or not I have Parkinson's. I have nothing but choices about how I react to it. In those choices there's freedom to do a lot of things in areas that I wouldn't have otherwise found myself in.
I was interested by the idea that artists working in a totalitarian dictatorship or tsarist autocracy are secretly and slightly shamefully envied by artists who work in freedom. They have the gratification of intense interest: the authorities want to put them in jail while there are younger readers for whom what they write is pure oxygen.
Freedom is control in your own life.
Freedom is the open window through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit and human dignity.
Exclusion is never the way forward on our shared paths to freedom and justice.
That freedom can never be attained by a nation without suffering and sacrifice has been amply borne out by the recent tragic happenings in this subcontinent.
It is capitalist America that produced the modern independent woman. Never in history have women had more freedom of choice in regard to dress behavior career and sexual orientation.
Men are freest when they are most unconscious of freedom. The shout is a rattling of chains always was.
Freedom of expression - in particular freedom of the press - guarantees popular participation in the decisions and actions of government and popular participation is the essence of our democracy.
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.
The fifth freedom is freedom from ignorance.
Real freedom lies in wildness not in civilization.
Those religions that are oppressive to women are also against democracy human rights and freedom of expression.
Bondage is of the mind freedom too is of the mind. If you say 'I am a free soul. I am a son of God who can bind me' free you shall be.
I am truly free only when all human beings men and women are equally free. The freedom of other men far from negating or limiting my freedom is on the contrary its necessary premise and confirmation.
The United States of America will never be intimidated by thugs and assassins. The killers will fail and the Iraqi people will live in freedom.
Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one.
People demand freedom only when they have no power.
Freedom is not enough.
The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
The road to freedom lies not through mysteries or occult performances but through the intelligent use of natural forces and laws.
For all who love freedom and peace the world without Saddam Hussein's regime is a better and safer place.
Thought takes man out of servitude into freedom.