The Law of God reaches into every area of life, and it brings about incredible blessing and incredible freedom.
— Randall Terry
We could try freedom for a while. We had it for a long time. That's where you sell something, and I agree to buy it because I like it. That is how we operate in most of rest of the marketplace other than health care.
— Rand Paul
If our freedom is taken, the American dream will wither and die.
The degree of freedom from unwanted thoughts and the degree of concentration on a single thought are the measures to gauge spiritual progress.
— Ramana Maharshi
I think we must get rid of slavery, or we must get rid of freedom.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
President Obama wants to increase the size of government and raise taxes, while I support less government and more individual freedom.
— Ralph Hall
I went to jail 44 times. I've been beaten and left for dead on the side of the road fighting for freedom... Yet Rosa Parks is better known in history than Ralph David Abernathy. Why is that?
— Ralph Abernathy
The freedom movement transformed the status of women. Women fought along with men as comrades. In the process, the shackles that had bound them fell away.
— Rajiv Gandhi
I think of those giants who made the Indian National Congress. Seldom has the world seen a nobler galaxy of women and men, so selfless in their devotion to the cause of freedom, so exalted in thought, so brave in action, so pure in spirit.
My attitude is govern as if you've run your last race. That's not to say I've run my last race, but govern with a liberation and a freedom; change your mind frame to operate that way.
— Rahm Emanuel
I used to wear sleeveless T-shirts all the time on court, but now I've got a brand new look - I've moved on to polo shirts. Sleeveless T-shirts give you real freedom of movement and they keep you cooler in matches, but I just thought it was time for a change.
— Rafael Nadal
I think freedom for Palestine could be an incredible source of hope to people struggling all over the world. I think it could also be an incredible inspiration to Arab people in the Middle East, who are struggling under undemocratic regimes which the U.S. supports.
— Rachel Corrie
What women really want is opportunity and the freedom to love and accept all aspects of womanhood - the intellectual, spiritual, professional, biological and relational dimensions of who we are.
— Rachel Campos-Duffy
Minority and low-income parents are just as capable as wealthy parents of identifying schools that are providing a first class education. Stop infantilizing us and start empowering our families with choice, with freedom, and personal responsibility.
Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
— Rabindranath Tagore
He hath freedom whoso beareth clean and constant heart within.
— Quintus Ennius
As soon as laws are necessary for men, they are no longer fit for freedom.
— Pythagoras
I support engagement, diplomacy, and trade with Cuba, China, Vietnam, and many countries with less than stellar human rights records, because I believe that once enslaved people taste freedom and see the products of capitalism, they will become hungry for freedom themselves.
Big and oppressive government has long been the enemy of freedom, something black Americans know all too well.
The precondition to freedom is security.
— Rand Beers
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.
— Ramakrishna
The desire of gold is not for gold. It is for the means of freedom and benefit.
When an American says that he loves his country, he means not only that he loves the New England hills, the prairies glistening in the sun, the wide and rising plains, the great mountains and the sea. He means that he loves an inner air, inner life in which freedom lives. In which a man can draw the breath of self-respect.
— Ralph Bellamy
When you become a sannyasin, I initiate you into freedom, and into nothing else... I am destroying your ideologies, creeds, cults, dogmas, and I am not replacing them with anything else.
— Rajneesh
How shall we remember Mahatma Gandhi, that eternal pilgrim of freedom? Born of the very spirit of India, steeped in the tradition, the song, the legend of our ancient land - and yet he was revolutionary. Unique among revolutionaries, he marched for freedom, clad in the robe of truth, with non-violence for his staff.
I used to have a private... life. Now I dont have that... I have no freedom. I miss my normal life terribly. Its a prison-like life I'm leading.
— Rajinikanth
The American political scientist Francis Fukuyama has argued that liberal democracies, with their political freedom and economic success, have three important pillars: a strong government, the rule of law, and democratic accountability. I would add a fourth: free markets.
— Raghuram Rajan
We won't tolerate abuses and crimes made every day in the name of freedom of speech. That is freedom of extortion and blackmail.
— Rafael Correa
I am a good, strong word giver; I am a jealous guard of my own secrets. Freedom is the rule; I am hungry for one good thing I can do.
The voices of economic freedom, personal responsibility, and self-determination are virtually nonexistent in Hispanic communities and media.
I love the simplicity and freedom of running. A pair of shoes, and you are all set to explore new trails.
— Rachel Boston
Emancipation from the bondage of the soil is no freedom for the tree.
Novelists have always had complete freedom to pretty much tell their story any way they saw fit. And that's what I'm trying to do.
— Quentin Tarantino
While I'm grateful for the freedom to express one's self, I've learned there are limits to what language is appropriate and I'm deeply sorry for how these lyrics could be interpreted.
— Psy
Freedom is popular. Bring it on.
And when the time is right, I hope that African Americans will again look to the party of emancipation, civil liberty, and individual freedom.
We've seen over time that countries that have the best economic growth are those that have good governance, and good governance comes from freedom of communication. It comes from ending corruption. It comes from a populace that can go online and say, 'This politician is corrupt, this administrator, or this public official is corrupt.'
— Ramez Naam
Our Constitution provides the fundamental right to freedom of speech and expression and it also enjoins upon citizens the duty to safeguard public property and to abjure violence.
— Ram Nath Kovind
The revelation of thought takes men out of servitude into freedom.
But freedom, liberty, is an attribute of the soul and it may exist even when the body is in bondage.
— Ralph Adams Cram
We have freedom of religion in our country, yet we must guard against forcible conversions or through pecuniary enticements.
— Rajnath Singh
To the nameless and unsung heroes of our freedom struggle, we offer our humble tribute. Their life-blood nourishes the body of independent India.
Startup India is welcome for the economy, but it cannot be accompanied by 'Shut Up India' in society. What gives Startup India its strength is freedom of expression, thought, and dissent. You choke this, and you choke entrepreneurship.
— Rahul Gandhi
I wish that they had the freedoms like the Japanese and the Koreans and the Mexicans and everybody else that has that freedom to come over here and play the game, because I know Cuba has a very strong baseball history.
— Rafael Palmeiro
But just playing the partner of someone famous, I had a lot more freedom.
— Rachel Griffiths
Death smells like homemade apple sauce as it cooks on the stove. It is not the strangling sense of illness. It is not fear. It is freedom.
Hispanics don't want more programs to make them comfortable in their poverty. What Hispanics really want is more opportunity: the freedom to work, leave poverty behind, and rise into the ranks of the middle class and beyond.
All those things you hear about networks trying to stifle creativity - CW lets creators create and gives us freedom.
— Rachel Bloom
We gain freedom when we have paid the full price.
It is not the simple statement of facts that ushers in freedom; it is the constant repetition of them that has this liberating effect. Tolerance is the result not of enlightenment, but of boredom.
— Quentin Crisp