Criticism of government finds sanctuary in several portions of the 1st Amendment. It is part of the right of free speech. It embraces freedom of the press.
— Hugo Black
Freedom is the most contagious virus known to man.
— Hubert H. Humphrey
One certain effect of war is to diminish freedom of expression.
— Howard Zinn
Not everyone is fortunate enough to earn their living playing. But what draws people to art and artists is a desire to enjoy the propinquity of play. For it is the very freedom of the imagination. And what else were we born to do, but imagine freely?
— Howard Jacobson
Germany's fate is decided first and foremost in Europe. Reconciliation and cooperation in Europe have brought us freedom, peace and prosperity. Who would have dared to believe so much 50 years ago?
— Horst Koehler
The cool thing about those small-budget movies is that there's a tremendous amount of freedom the filmmakers have since there's less money at stake.
— Holly Hunter
We must remember that the people for whom this change represents a first taste of freedom and a new and brighter future did not allow their resolution to falter, no matter how great the suffering by which they bought this independence.
— Hjalmar Branting
There's a difference between people being free and the atmosphere of 'freedom.'
— Hirokazu Kore-eda
Freedom means the right of people to assemble, organize, and debate openly.
— Hillary Clinton
It's quite obvious that the 'Dark Souls' franchise is reaching a turning point, and I'm happy that I have a greater budget for the third game, as well as the creative freedom to make my own decisions. But if there were some restrictions about what I was creating, I definitely wouldn't want to work on it.
— Hidetaka Miyazaki
It is clear that not in one thing alone, but in many ways equality and freedom of speech are a good thing.
— Herodotus
It's not easy to play in a framework that requires simplicity and to tastefully find ways to interject the kind of freedom that we have in playing jazz.
— Herbie Hancock
We do not commonly see in a tax a diminution of freedom, and yet it clearly is one.
— Herbert Spencer
Freedom conceives that the mind and spirit of man can be free only if he be free to pattern his own life, to develop his own talents, free to earn, to spend, to save, to acquire property as the security of his old age and his family.
— Herbert Hoover
Those who have a true understanding of America know that we have no desire for territorial expansion, for economic or other domination of other peoples. Such purposes are repugnant to our ideals of human freedom.
Within the soul of America is freedom of mind and spirit in man. Here alone are the open windows through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit. Here alone is human dignity not a dream but an accomplishment. Perhaps it is not perfect, but it is more full in realization here than any other place in the world.
People demand freedom only when they have no power.
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
We are the only authority on what is good for us. Once we see this, we feel an enormous peace and freedom.
— Hugh Prather
Freedom is hammered out on the anvil of discussion, dissent, and debate.
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
The closer Iraq approaches freedom and democracy, the more impediments and barriers the terrorists will erect.
— Howard Coble
I have the freedom to say what I want to say.
— Hopsin
Do I trust myself? Sometimes I don't even know, but I can only just kind of throw my hat in the ring and hope for the best. Depending on how much I trust the other people is how much freedom I can allow myself to have on that particular set.
In the end, madness is worse than injustice, and justice far sweeter than freedom.
— Hisham Matar
I discovered freedom for the first time in England.
— Hirohito
Both the American people and nations that censor the internet should understand that our government is committed to helping promote internet freedom.
To advocate a New Order was to seek freedom and respect for peoples without prejudice, and to seek a stable basis for the existence all peoples, equally, and free of threats.
— Hideki Tojo
In World War II, jazz absolutely was the music of freedom, and then in the Cold War, behind the Iron Curtain, same thing. It was all underground, but they needed the food of freedom that jazz offered.
One thing that sticks in my mind is that jazz means freedom and openness. It's a music that, although it developed out of the African American experience, speaks more about the human experience than the experience of a particular people.
To realize that new world we must prefer the values of freedom and equality above all other values - above personal wealth, technical power and nationalism.
— Herbert Read
Freedom does not die from frontal attack. It dies because men in power no longer believe in a system based upon liberty.
Economic freedom cannot be sacrificed if political freedom is to be preserved.
Every country in every war fights for freedom.
— Henry Williamson
An experienced designer with more freedom to act might have realised that there was just too much optimism in the Ares I concept: that a shuttle SRB was simply too small as a first stage for a rocket carrying the relatively heavy Orion spacecraft.
— Henry Spencer
Twenty years ago, I was part of a movement of millions of people who were going after freedom. But today, they look and they say, 'What are the advantages of freedom?' So far, it's the vote and maybe, in certain places, lack of police harassment. You can live anywhere you want and do anything you want - if you have the means.
— Hugh Masekela
The risk of pollution exists for the infosphere as it does for the atmosphere. Freedom of the infosphere should thus become a law, and the Bible needs to have an 11th commandment: Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's data.
— Hubert Burda
I never abandoned either forms or freedom. I imagine that most of what could be called free verse is in my first book. I got through that fairly early.
Responsibility and respect of others and their religious beliefs are also part of freedom.
Food trucks give creative entrepreneurs the ability to cook with freedom and make what they love, meaning that they can create highly specialized meals without having the high overhead costs of running a restaurant.
— Homaro Cantu
The Vietnamese people deeply love independence, freedom and peace. But in the face of United States aggression they have risen up, united as one man.
— Ho Chi Minh
A revolution is not a painless march to the gates of freedom and justice. It is a struggle between rage and hope, between the temptation to destroy and the desire to build.
American musicals are, for the most part, about boys, or boyish pursuits and aspirations - the fantasy of freedom and resolve - and those dreams have little to do with the reality of most black women's lives.
— Hilton Als
There are 4 billion cell phones in use today. Many of them are in the hands of market vendors, rickshaw drivers, and others who've historically lacked access to education and opportunity. Information networks have become a great leveler, and we should use them together to help lift people out of poverty and give them a freedom from want.
Thus, it was to seek true civilization and true justice for all the peoples of the world, and to view this as the destruction of personal freedom and respect is to be assailed by the hatred and emotion of war, and to make hasty judgments.
One of the most important functions of jazz has been to encourage a hope for freedom, for people living in situations of intolerance or struggle.
Hero-worship is strongest where there is least regard for human freedom.
The range of choice open to the individual is not the decisive factor in determining the degree of human freedom, but what can be chosen and what is chosen by the individual.
— Herbert Marcuse
The New Deal repudiation of democracy has left the Republican Party alone the guardian of the Ark of the Covenant with its charter of freedom.
Freedom is the open window through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit and human dignity.
Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.