At school, I was basically a loner, it was hard until I was 15 or so. Then I went to art school and was gifted with freedom to do the things I really wanted to do.
— Gilbert O'Sullivan
I remain optimistic. What we've seen in Europe and the rest of the world is that freedom has a much stronger attraction than radical fundamentalism.
— Gijs de Vries
In California, where you're allowed to drive at 16, you get so much freedom with that. It's a freedom to get outside of your parents' house and to do bad things.
— Gia Coppola
Your determination, selflessness and courage have brought the freedom struggle towards its fulfilment.
— Gerry Adams
Science is imagination in the service of the verifiable truth, and that service is indeed communal. It cannot be rigidly planned. Rather, it requires freedom and courage and the plural contributions of many different kinds of people who must maintain their individuality while giving to the group.
— Gerald Edelman
What I'm going to be given I gather is not the key to the city, which in many cities is the case. It's the freedom medal, and for me freedom has always been associated traditionally within the city.
— George Woodcock
Government has the role of suiting people for freedom. People aren't made for freedom spontaneously. There's sort of a 19-year race between when people are born and when they become adults. And government has a role in making them, at the end of 19 years, suited to be upright, trustworthy repositories of popular sovereignty.
— George Will
If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.
— George Washington
We will not waver; we will not tire; we will not falter, and we will not fail. Peace and Freedom will prevail.
— George W. Bush
The momentum of freedom in our world is unmistakable - and it is not carried forward by our power alone. We can trust in that greater power Who guides the unfolding of the years. And in all that is to come, we can know that His purposes are just and true.
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 itself was attacked this morning by a faceless coward, and freedom will be defended.
I chose America as my home because I value freedom and democracy, civil liberties and an open society.
— George Soros
In all the great periods of the drama perfect freedom of choice and subject, perfect freedom of individual treatment, and an audience eager to give itself to sympathetic listening, even if instruction be involved, have brought the great results.
— George Pierce Baker
Israel is a country that respects freedom - freedom of assembly, freedom of speech and freedom of worship.
— George Pataki
The libertarian worship of individual freedom, and contempt for social convention, comes easiest to people who have never really had to grow up.
— George Packer
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
— George Orwell
The family is the test of freedom; because the family is the only thing that the free man makes for himself and by himself.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
Ultimately, freedom and democracy are stronger than fear and tyranny.
The real movement of history, it turns out, is fueled not by matter but by spirit, by the will to freedom.
— Gertrude Himmelfarb
When others stood idly by, you and your families gave your all, in defence of a risen people and in pursuit of Irish freedom and unity.
Van Gaal is a teacher, pays attention to everything you do, but Hiddink is more linked to the players. He gives more freedom than Van Gaal, but I worked with both of them pretty well.
— Georginio Wijnaldum
Money is time made tangible - the time invested in the earning of it. Taxation is the confiscation of the earner's time. Although some taxation is necessary, all taxation diminishes freedom.
I suppose there's a melancholy tone at the back of the American mind, a sense of something lost. And it's the lost world of Thomas Jefferson. It is the lost sense of innocence that we could live with a very minimal state, with a vast sense of space in which to work out freedom.
Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom.
— George Washington Carver
The terrorists are fighting freedom with all their cunning and cruelty because freedom is their greatest fear - and they should be afraid, because freedom is on the march.
I believe that God has planted in every heart the desire to live in freedom.
Everywhere that freedom stirs, let tyrants fear.
You can't put democracy and freedom back into a box.
An open society is a society which allows its members the greatest possible degree of freedom in pursuing their interests compatible with the interests of others.
Every young man's best purchase is his first car, which spells freedom. My first one was a '70 Camaro, springtime gold-over-saddle, a 307 with Hi-jackers and chrome reverse mags.
— George Pelecanos
The moral equation strongly tells everyone who understands freedom, who understands morality, that Israel is engaging in a just war in defense of its people and its freedom.
If freedom of movement is to be sustainable, then our publics must see it as freedom to move to work, rather than freedom to choose the most generous benefits.
— George Osborne
War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.
The rainbow flag is a symbol of freedom and liberation that we made for ourselves.
— Gilbert Baker
I have a fantastic relationship with money. I use it to buy my freedom.
— Gianni Versace
The function of the law is not to provide justice or to preserve freedom. The function of the law is to keep those who hold power, in power.
— Gerry Spence
Freedom is fragile and must be protected. To sacrifice it, even as a temporary measure, is to betray it.
— Germaine Greer
I believe in that connection between freedom and the city.
Freedom means the freedom to behave coarsely, basely, foolishly.
Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.
I am not about to be a party to anything having to do with the law that is going to destroy individual freedom and liberty in this country.
— George Wallace
The wisest use of American strength is to advance freedom.
For all who love freedom and peace, the world without Saddam Hussein's regime is a better and safer place.
The course of this conflict is not known, yet its outcome is certain. Freedom and fear, justice and cruelty, have always been at war, and we know that God is not neutral between them.
For the saddest epitaph which can be carved in memory of a vanished freedom is that it was lost because its possessors failed to stretch forth a saving hand while there was still time.
— George Sutherland
I don't like freedom jazz - I think it's void of roots and void of foundation.
— George Shearing
After the tragedy, New Yorkers are more united than ever in their vision, as well as in appreciation what living in freedom means - and that if we stand together, we can accomplish anything.
I think there is a heritage which I'm proud of, which is a fight for democracy, a fight for social justice, a fight for freedom. My grandfather went to jail or exile six times in his life, fighting for his principles for democracy, or for his country. And my father twice.
— George Papandreou
Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.