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I'm really close to my family, and I really want one of my own. But the wedding, it's not necessary for me.
— Julia Restoin Roitfeld
I'll never have a wedding. I don't want to marry just to do what everybody else is doing.
— Mr. T
I saw a photograph of a wedding conducted by Reverend Moon of the Unification Church. I wanted to understand this event, and the only way to understand it was to write about it.
— Don DeLillo
I am happy. I have a wonderful marriage. I was in a not-great second marriage for 20 years, then I fell in love with Steve, my first husband, again, and we remarried. I wore the dress from our first wedding in 1982 - it was tight, but I could get into it.
— Marie Osmond
I haven't made many wedding dresses. It's a dress very, very important for the girl; it's important to know the person, I believe, but at the same time it should be a shock to the person - the person should be shocked to be suddenly revealed. That's the work of a designer sometimes, to propose an ID of look.
— Olivier Theyskens
When the wedding march sounds the resolute approach, the clock no longer ticks, it tolls the hour. The figures in the aisle are no longer individuals, they symbolize the human race.
— Anne Morrow Lindbergh
When I had a job catering, I catered a wedding for the Smashing Pumpkins bassist in Indiana. And I served Billy Corgan shrimp off a tray.
— Amy Poehler
The trouble with wedlock is that there's not enough wed and too much lock.
— Christopher Morley
Monica Seles: I'd hate to be next door to her on her wedding night.
— Peter Ustinov
One of the most common reasons people renovate their homes is a change in their lifestyle - an upcoming wedding, a new baby, or grown children moving away.
— Candice Olson
When widows exclaim loudly against second marriages, I would always lay a wager than the man, If not the wedding day, is absolutely fixed on.
— Henry Fielding
We always talk about how the first several seasons were faithful to the books, and anybody who wanted to could go onto Wikipedia and learn Ned Stark gets beheaded or about The Red Wedding, and most people don't want to know - because why ruin a story?
— David Benioff
The Wedding March has a bit of a death march in it.
— Brian May
I would like to sing for the Pope. And the Queen, and at Simon Cowell's wedding.
— Jackie Evancho
I really did put up all my wedding pictures on my website. And I swear to you, my wedding pictures got downloaded just as much as my bikini pictures.
— Cindy Margolis
What an electric thrill it sends up and down the spine, how it sets the heart racing: A Royal Romance! A Royal Wedding! The pomp and the pageantry!
— Hamish Bowles
All my tattoos except my first were not planned. I would just go into the shop late at night with friends and ask for something on the spot. My first is my parents' wedding date. I thought it would soften the blow of getting a tattoo.
— Hailey Baldwin
I had all kinds of fantasies, like a lot of girls, but did I actually go through the motions of planning a wedding and buying bridal magazines and imagining things and setting up who would play what role? No. Because as I grew up, I started to believe that I would be one of those gals that never got married.
— Sara Ramirez
The Queen's wedding dress in 1947, there was some embroidery on the train which was definitely there to illustrate new dawn/post-war optimism, that sort of thing.
— Kate Reardon
Your wedding is your red carpet moment, and while brides definitely can take some chances with style, you don't want to look like a fad.
— Reem Acra
Hierarchical formulations died because their wedding cake levels posited a multiply fractured cosmos that does not match the Space Age revelation of a unified universe in which the earth is clearly in, rather than separated from, the heavens. Hierarchical representations do not reflect what either the world or we are like.
— Eugene Kennedy
I'm still waiting for someone to call me to cater their wedding. But that's gonna cost you. If you want my cousin Jerez to play the sax, that's going to cost you a little more. The sky's the limit after that.
— Coolio
A wedding, people decide to get married, it comes out of such love for one another and then women can turn into these other people. They're planning something that's the biggest event they'll ever plan in their lives and it turns them into this other person, so it's not totally the guy's fault that he's feeling disconnected from this person.
— Alison Brie
I felt very unstressed on my wedding day. I'm very grateful for that... spending the day on my own, being super quiet and happy and just puttering around doing my own thing.
— Sonya Walger
When planning your wedding you make so many decisions: 'Do I want this fork or that fork?' But in the end people aren't going to remember what napkin holder you choose.
— Lara Stone
I don't know nothing about no marriages or nothing. I ain't even never been to a wedding.
— Mike Epps
I didn't finish my dress until about three days before my wedding - I had the flu and was stitching it from my bed. And the tulle came back from India all brown. We had to wash it for hours, but that didn't dissuade me from wearing it.
— Georgina Chapman
Well the wedding in the words of the Archbishop of Canterbury was a fairy tale and there was a huge public impress, investment of goodwill, affection and indeed money in this Institution. It was a huge success at the time.
— Anthony Holden
My friends asked me to be a reverend at their wedding in France a few years ago. I went on the Internet, and within 15 seconds, I was printing out a certificate which allowed me to officiate at their wedding.
— Lucy Punch
I just went to a wedding of a friend of mine who happens to be gay. Because somebody doesn't think the way I do, doesn't mean that I can't care about them or can't love them.
— John Kasich
The best thing I ever bought is a vintage Oscar de la Renta short gingham dress that I wore to my rehearsal dinner the night before my wedding.
— Kelly Wearstler
Jody Hill, who I created 'Eastbound And Down' and 'Fist Foot Way' with, was my best man at my wedding.
— Danny McBride
I was never a girl who dreamed about what her wedding day would be like, but I've always dreamed about decorating my baby's nursery.
— Rebecca Romijn
If I felt, in the event of a royal wedding, inspired to write about people coming together in marriage or civil partnership, I would just be grateful to have an idea for the poem. And if I didn't, I'd ignore it.
— Carol Ann Duffy
Ariel may look a lot like Barbie, and her adventure may be limited to romance and over with the wedding bells, but unlike, say, Cinderella or Sleeping Beauty, she's active, brave and determined, the heroine of her own life. She even rescues the prince. And that makes her a rare fish, indeed, in the world of preschool culture.
— Katha Pollitt
Sure, men like a challenge - but so do women. And nobody likes to be challenged all the time. I know plenty of long-standing happy couples who slept together right away, spent hours yakking on the phone, split checks down the middle, and lived together for years before the wedding.
— Katha Pollitt
Where does it stop? You get offered money for your wedding, then for your kids, new houses, holidays... We earn enough from football and sponsorships, why do you need any more?
— Ryan Giggs
A lawyer I once knew told me of a strange case, a suffragette who had never married. After her death, he opened her trunk and discovered 50 wedding gowns.
— Marguerite Young
There's no scenario in which I wouldn't want my entire family at a wedding.
— Jordan Rodgers
I wasn't always overweight. I was a skinny little punk of a kid with severe asthma. When I got married at the age of 22, I wore a cut-down size eight wedding gown.
— Mary Kay Andrews
As a pastor, you get invited into the most poignant moments of people's lives. Whether it's a wedding or a funeral or a hospital visit, you get invited into the center of the event, whether or not you know the people.
— Rob Bell
People always complain, 'you never invited me to your wedding', but I prefer casual weddings.
— Sinead O'Connor
I've worn a dress at my wedding. I've worn 6-inch Louboutins. I've got no fear and no shame.
— A. J. McLean
I'm the person who will go to a wedding and switch the place cards around because I don't want to sit next to someone I don't know, because I'm so bad at chatting to strangers.
— Sharon Horgan
Me and the Dap-Kings, the whole band is playing a wedding band in 'The Wolf of Wall Street.'
— Sharon Jones
I worked a lot with Nick Knight and John Galliano when John was at Dior. He also made my wedding dress. He'll always hold a special place; I have most of my memorable, iconic moments in fashion with him.
— Liberty Ross
I think my first experience of art, or the joy in making art, was playing the horn at some high-school dance or bar mitzvah or wedding, looking at a roomful of people moving their bodies around in time to what I was doing. There was a piano player, a bass player, a drummer, and my breath making the melody.
— Robert Pinsky
I want the big drama. I always said I don't want a wedding I want a parade.
— Star Jones
I really was about to pass out during my entire wedding. I just didn't know if I could marry anybody.
— Patricia Richardson
Recently, I was in Bernalda, my dad's ancestral home town in Italy. He has just refurbished a palazzo and turned it into a hotel, so we had my sister's wedding there. It was beautiful.
— Roman Coppola
A walk through the storage facility of the community museum where I worked might easily have convinced you that people in the past wore only wedding dresses, carried silver candlesticks, and played with porcelain dolls.
— Susanna Kearsley
People didn't just wear wedding dresses in the past. They also wore plain cotton shifts beneath them. As pretty as the dresses might be, and as lovely as they might look on display, if a museum doesn't hang the shifts beside them or acknowledge that the shifts existed, that exhibit's incomplete.
— Susanna Kearsley
I had a 2-week courtship with a fellow student in the fiction workshop in Iowa and a 5-minute wedding in a lawyer's office above the coffee shop where we'd been having lunch that day. And so I sent a cable to my father saying, 'By the time you get this, Daddy, I'll already be Mrs. Blaise!'
— Bharati Mukherjee
On my wedding day, I gifted my wife a platinum ring.
— Vijender Singh
I only did karaoke once in my life. It was with Courtney Love and it was a total disaster. She pulled me on stage in front of 500 people at a wedding. I'd never done karaoke before.
— Jared Leto
It was only literally hours after the wedding when he felt he didn't have to keep up the facade.
— Trisha Goddard
It happened in Miami, in Coral Gables, a great big ol' Cuban wedding. It was pretty intense.
— Jon Secada
I try to study the background of the country I am in and what were my hits there, so I can at least give them some of what they want. It's like a wedding - give them something old, something new, something borrowed and definitely something blue!
— Betty Wright
I met Kanye. I'm starstruck, man, but I stayed away from that guy. I didn't want him to go on a rant, go off on me. He did it at his wedding.
— Jay Pharoah
Since the day Brahma created the world to this day, no one's ever been able to satisfy a wedding guest. They always find some opportunity or other to find fault and criticise. One who can't even afford a dry piece of bread at home becomes a lord at the wedding party.
— Munshi Premchand
I want John Legend to sing at my wedding.
— Sloane Stephens
After I had the Caesarean, I was told I had really strong stomach muscles and so would heal very quickly. And I did. I was up walking about within three hours. Six days after having her, I was out shopping and shortly after that I made it to David Walliams' wedding.
— Denise Van Outen
'That's What She Said' is not Hollywood's standard picture of women: preternaturally gorgeous, wedding obsessed, boy crazy, fashion focused, sexed up 'girl' women. These are real women, comically portrayed, who are trying to wrestle with the very expectations of womanhood that Hollywood movies set up.
— Carrie Preston
I got my first big paycheck for 'My Best Friend's Wedding.' This was in the days when you actually did get paid to have a supporting role. It just doesn't happen like that anymore, but this was in the '90s. It was the golden age!
— Carrie Preston
My husband and I click wedding rings sometimes and say, 'By the power of the Castle of Greyskull!'
— Tamora Pierce
For a girl, the wedding is when you're married. For a guy, it's when you get engaged. It takes a real aggressive human being to back out between the ring and the wedding.
— Max Greenfield
We all went to Kelsey's wedding, and yeah, we go to parties. We also go to each other's house. A group of us got together over at Kelsey's and just read through some plays just for the fun of it. That may not be everyone's idea of a good time, but we had a good time.
— David Hyde Pierce
My husband, Jim, converted to Judaism just before our wedding.
— Anita Diament
Onassis told me. He begged me to come to the wedding.
— Lee Radziwill
When I was in high school, there was 'Superbad' and 'The Girl Next Door' and 'Wedding Crashers' and all these great movies. You hope to be a part of something that's smart, funny and in that Todd Phillips-vein. You want to make something like 'Superbad.' That movie was so good and so funny.
— Miles Teller
When he came back from downtown, he had forgotten to bring his license, his identification, the $2 for the wedding license. So we got married two days later.
— Eydie Gorme
The vibe of my wedding is kind of going to be ethereal. Simple and modern, in a way, but with a lot of greenery. So, eucalyptus, olive branches, moss, and candles - it's going to be very... I want it to feel very comfortable, but obviously sleek.
— Sasha Pieterse
One time when somebody showed up in a wedding dress, but I never knew if it was a joke, or she was serious. She asked me to marry her. She was serious. It was pretty funny.
— Bryan White
I'll get pretty much everything the way I want it. I've always dreamed of a beach wedding.
— Nicole Appleton
It was about 2012, 2013. I started from zero. Small fashion shows, small photoshoots. I've seen a lot. I've seen a lot of things up close. I married my sister off; I gave jahez for her wedding. I tried to keep relations going with my family. I bought a house for them in Multan. My parents are settled in Multan; my house is there.
— Qandeel Baloch
The first thing I ever saw Bradley Cooper in was 'Wedding Crashers.'
— Ed Weeks
I don't follow trends. I make each cake for a particular wedding, or event.
— Ron Ben-Israel
When I celebrated my bar mitzvah, there was no cake. Today, there is no such thing as a bar mitzvah in the United States without a special cake. It can be even more complicated and expensive than a wedding cake, because bar-mitzvah cakes are often based on a particular theme.
— Ron Ben-Israel
Well... Actually I got picked because I was the only one who fit the wedding gown - they had my size.
— Kevin McDonald
That to me was the most poignant part of Diana's wedding; as she was walking up the aisle and her eyes were going left to right, looking at people and smiling in the way that Diana did - and that diamond tiara glittering like mad. It was great.
— Bruce Oldfield
I'd hesitated to have a wedding because my gay and lesbian friends don't have that right.
— Kathy Najimy
I love rings, but I can't wear them. I mean, look at my knuckles. My fingers and joints are so swollen from years of playing. That means no wedding band, either. Luckily, I have a very understanding wife.
— Justin Tuck
My biggest blast-off hit was 'You Raise Me Up.' If you ever have a wedding or a funeral, it's a good pick.
— Josh Groban
If you write a song, and you go into a restaurant, and there's a guy with a piano singing and he's playing piano, singing your song, or you hear it at a wedding or at an airport... it's fun!
— Jesse Harris
Come on, planning a wedding, let's be honest, it's not fun. It's not fun being in a wedding.
— Wendi McLendon-Covey
I was a bridesmaid at a wedding in one picture.
— Dorothy Malone
I loved 'Monsoon Wedding' and 'Lunchbox' because they had 'real' stories. I wish there are more films made like them.
— Garth Davis
I used to work all the time, and now if there is a wedding, there's a concert, I'm there.
— Petra Nemcova
I feel as though my career really hit its high point when I was cast as a supporting actress in 'American Wedding'. I thought the script had a lot of depth and intelligence, and it really just jumped off the page.
— January Jones
I usually have a few coins in my pocket when I'm playing, but the one I use to mark my ball on the green is a special silver coin that my wife designed for me. It has our wedding date inscribed on it.
— Louis Oosthuizen
I was the official wedding photographer at one of my best friends' weddings. Fortunately she was one of the most easygoing brides ever, so she made it easy for me.
— Natalie Coughlin
The most terrifying thing in the world was having to give a speech at my girlfriend's wedding. I was physically shaking and sweating the entire time.
— Lindy Booth
The Hiltons know how to put on a good wedding, that's all I can say.
— Conrad Sewell
My sister, singer Jessie Ware, and I are always exchanging music. We brainstormed her wedding playlist for months.
— Hannah Ware
She tells enough white lies to ice a wedding cake.
— Margot Asquith
All weddings, except those with shotguns in evidence, are wonderful.
— Liz Smith
If you had asked me when I was 28 and in my wedding dress if I ever thought I would end up in my forties flipping my husband the bird over potato chips, I'd say you were crazy.
— Jenna McCarthy
It's not that I think weddings - or marriages - are letdowns. It's just that I want to see my wedding as one awesome achievement on a continuum of achievements, all of which were, in their way, just as beautiful and profound for having led me to the current one.
— Jessi Klein
I believe that anybody who gets married should go to a counselor for months before the wedding. I think that's going to save guys a lot of money and the ladies a lot of heartbreak.
— James Brolin
There was a thing on Facebook that said, 'Describe George Clooney's wedding in three words,' and my answer was, 'Not invited again.'
— Michael O'Keefe
It's important to still look like yourself on your wedding day, so I didn't do anything drastic.
— Lily Aldridge
We are all so close. We are godfather to each others' kids. I was the best man at Jesus' wedding.
— Juan Marichal
I tried writing this book about a singer in a wedding band, but realized I only wanted to write the book so I could have an excuse to sing with a wedding band as research. That's not a good enough reason to write a book.
— Megan McCafferty
Of course, I do have a slight advantage over the rest of you. It helps in a pinch to be able to remind your bride that you gave up a throne for her.
— Edward VIII
You may invite the entire 35th Division to your wedding if you want to. I guess it's going to be yours as well as mine. We might as well have the church full while we are at it.
— Bess Truman
A lot of people think I'm that guy in 'Betsy's Wedding', but I'm not. What it is for me is that, on some level, I connect with the character emotionally.
— Anthony LaPaglia
Sometimes, my books start with a scene I see in my mind, such as a woman in a wedding dress running away from her wedding like in 'Embers of Love.' Sometimes, a book can start with a character.
— Tracie Peterson
I admire Eudora Welty. 'Delta Wedding' is a book I've given as a present to numerous women. Eudora Welty rocks. She writes such jewel-like, fine, refined short stories.
— Nell Zink
Quarrels often arise in marriages when the bridal gifts are excessive.
— Antisthenes
I've thought about it a hundred times. I even buy bridal magazines sometimes. I want David Tutera to do my wedding.
— Marlen Esparza
The proposal is the only thing that the guy has control over in the entire wedding deal. It is your one chance to make this moment stand out, not only for you, but for her.
— Drew Seeley
I myself was a wedding photographer when I was, like, 16.
— Kacy Hill
Saw a wedding in the church. It was strange to see what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition.
— Samuel Pepys
The day of the wedding went like these things generally do, full of anxious moments interspersed with black comedy.
— Janet Street-Porter
I'm taking one thing at a time. With the children and launching my solo career it would drive me to a nervous breakdown if I tried to organise a wedding on top of that.
— Natasha Hamilton
I went looking for dresses and realized there was a niche I could fill in the wedding dress market.
— Monique Lhuillier
We rent one in three tuxedos in the U.S. and Canada, and if we make a mistake, our employees will deliver to the customer's home, office, or wedding. We get a couple hundred letters a week praising the service in our stores.
— George Zimmer
My grandfather Frank Lloyd Wright wore a red sash on his wedding night. That is glamour!
— Anne Baxter
I have three older brothers, and we all have different combinations of parents. My father was the best man at my mom's first wedding! And my brother's mother - my dad's first wife - is the sister to my mom's first husband's second wife. So my brothers are both stepcousins and stepbrothers. It's very '70s rock.
— Inara George
My sister really drooled a lot when she was younger. For her wedding, I was going to get her one of those lace drool cups that go around the ears.
— Cheri Oteri
My five best friends, who were my bridesmaids in my wedding, are still my best friends.
— Jill Kargman
We had already planned my wedding when my brother passed away in 2012. When you're grieving, you don't necessarily want to think about something like that, but my brother told me that he wanted me to, so we went ahead and did it.
— Yaya DaCosta
For her fifth wedding, the bride wore black and carried a scotch and soda.
— Phyllis Battelle
Now in India, a village boy who has worked his way up to work at a call center, or if he gets a job working even as a busboy in a Taj or an Oberoi hotel, he'll put on his wedding announcement with pride, 'Busboy at the Taj' or 'Call center, Office Tiger.'
— Marie Brenner
On the night of the winter solstice, when the dead get their annual reprieve, they go up to the 24-hour donut shop and wedding chapel to get hitched. Marriage is a good and proper pursuit for dead people. For a while, it relieves the dark, shuddering loneliness of the afterlife.
— Rachel Swirsky
Granddad offered me one hundred dollars if I would cut my mop of curly hair into a neat military style. Just before the wedding, I got a light trim. It wasn't enough for Granddad, and he didn't pay.
— David Eisenhower
Those are the men who will dance at your wedding.
— Guy Madison
Wedding rings need to be sparkly to remind us not to have sex with other people.
— Andrea Savage
Never get married in the morning - you never know who you might meet that night.
— Paul Hornung
America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.
— Abraham Lincoln
A hero is someone who understands the responsibility that comes with his freedom.
— Bob Dylan
If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.
— George Washington
Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same.
— Ronald Reagan
The liberties of our country, the freedom of our civil constitution, are worth defending against all hazards: And it is our duty to defend them against all attacks.
— Samuel Adams
Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor it must be demanded by the oppressed. 
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
The end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom. For in all the states of created beings capable of law, where there is no law, there is no freedom.
— John Locke
The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.
— Albert Camus
Freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought.
— Pope John Paul II
Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
— George Orwell
Freedom is the open window through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit and human dignity.
— Herbert Hoover
Where globalization means, as it so often does, that the rich and powerful now have new means to further enrich and empower themselves at the cost of the poorer and weaker, we have a responsibility to protest in the name of universal freedom.
— Nelson Mandela
Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.
— George Washington
I would like to be remembered as a person who wanted to be free... so other people would be also free.
— Rosa Parks
Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery, none but ourselves can free our minds!
— Marcus Garvey
Man is free at the moment he wishes to be.
— Voltaire
The secret of freedom lies in educating people, whereas the secret of tyranny is in keeping them ignorant.
— Maximilien Robespierre
It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.
— Voltaire
Freedom of speech and thought matters, especially when it is speech and thought with which we disagree. The moment the majority decides to destroy people for engaging in thought it dislikes, thought crime becomes a reality.
— Ben Shapiro
Freedom does not come without a price. We may sometimes take for granted the many liberties we enjoy in America, but they have all been earned through the ultimate sacrifice paid by so many of the members of our armed forces.
— Charlie Dent
True freedom requires the rule of law and justice, and a judicial system in which the rights of some are not secured by the denial of rights to others.
— Jonathan Sacks
Freedom is hammered out on the anvil of discussion, dissent, and debate.
— Hubert H. Humphrey
The liberties of a people never were, nor ever will be, secure, when the transactions of their rulers may be concealed from them.
— Patrick Henry
A free press can, of course, be good or bad, but, most certainly without freedom, the press will never be anything but bad.
— Albert Camus
Freedom lies in being bold.
— Robert Frost
A lovely nook of forest scenery, or a grand rock, like a beautiful woman, depends for much of its attractiveness upon the attendance sense of freedom from whatever is low; upon a sense of purity and of romance.
— P. T. Barnum
Religious freedom opens a door for Americans that is closed to too many others around the world. But whether we walk through that door, and what we do with our lives after we do, is up to us.
— Mitt Romney
Punk is musical freedom. It's saying, doing and playing what you want. In Webster's terms, 'nirvana' means freedom from pain, suffering and the external world, and that's pretty close to my definition of Punk Rock.
— Kurt Cobain
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
When the Internet first came into public use, it was hailed as a liberation from conformity, a floating world ruled by passion, creativity, innovation and freedom of information. When it was hijacked first by advertising and then by commerce, it seemed like it had been fully co-opted and brought into line with human greed and ambition.
— Neil Strauss
Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.
— Milton Friedman
Kids should speak to each other. They're horrid to each other online, they bully each other - they should shut up and stop it. The problem with social media is there is too much freedom. It's too much, too young.
— Cara Delevingne
Saying that you don't care about the right to privacy because you have nothing to hide is no different than saying you don't care about freedom of speech because you have nothing to say.
— Jean-Michel Jarre
America's answer to the intolerant man is diversity - the very diversity which our heritage of religious freedom has inspired.
— Robert Kennedy
If you're not ready to die for it, put the word 'freedom' out of your vocabulary.
— Malcolm X
My idea of freedom is that we should protect the rights of people to believe what their conscience dictates, but fight equally hard to protect people from having the beliefs of others imposed upon them.
— Justin Trudeau
Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest.
— Denis Diderot
To me, the flag represents the greatest ideals of the United States of America, not the worst, but different people look at different things and have different feelings about it. That's what freedom of expression is all about.
— Aaron Rodgers
Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.
— Karl Marx
Indeed, a major source of objection to a free economy is precisely that it... gives people what they want instead of what a particular group thinks they ought to want. Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.
— Milton Friedman
Since the Revolution, eight generations of America's veterans have established an unbroken commitment to freedom.
— Steve Buyer
Hate speech and freedom of speech are two different things.
— Leslie Jones
Human rights, of course, must include the right to religious freedom, understood as the expression of a dimension that is at once individual and communitarian - a vision that brings out the unity of the person while clearly distinguishing between the dimension of the citizen and that of the believer.
— Pope Benedict XVI
To me, punk rock is the freedom to create, freedom to be successful, freedom to not be successful, freedom to be who you are. It's freedom.
— Patti Smith
Let freedom reign. The sun never set on so glorious a human achievement.
— Nelson Mandela
When we lose the right to be different, we lose the privilege to be free.
— Charles Evans Hughes
Too much freedom can lead to the soul's decay.
— Prince
Each time we cooperate with God, we take one more giant step forward. Because when God asks us to change, it means that He always has something better to give us - more freedom, greater joy, and greater blessings.
— Joyce Meyer
America's greatest contribution to the world is its concept of democracy, its concept of freedom, freedom of action, freedom of speech, and freedom of thought.
— Benazir Bhutto
The Bill of Rights was intended to secure freedom of speech - the freedom of speech of members of parliament to speak freely rather than be at threat of... the threat of an over powerful monarch at the time.
— William Hague
I begin to feel like most Americans don't understand the First Amendment, don't understand the idea of freedom of speech, and don't understand that it's the responsibility of the citizen to speak out.
— Roger Ebert
Analysis does not set out to make pathological reactions impossible, but to give the patient's ego freedom to decide one way or another.
— Sigmund Freud
I love the pigeons. I just raise them, period, and feed them. Pigeons go away, and they always come back. You get a touch of freedom, and then they are free to come back to you. I love the idea of pigeons.
— George Foreman
We have to go see Bill Gates and a lot of different people that really understand what's happening. We have to talk to them, maybe in certain areas, closing that Internet up in some way. Somebody will say, 'Oh, freedom of speech, freedom of speech.' These are foolish people. We have a lot of foolish people.
— Donald Trump
My childhood memories are amazing I had freedom in every way - but I see everything from a different perspective now that I live outside. 
— Ana de Armas
You don't have to be a man to fight for freedom. All you have to do is to be an intelligent human being.
— Malcolm X
Freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed choices.
— Theodor Adorno
My photographs are a celebration of life, fun and the beautiful. They are a world that doesn't exist. A fantasy. Freedom is real. There are no rules. The life I wish I was living.
— Ryan McGinley
I find only freedom in the realms of eccentricity.
— David Bowie
I took up arms for the freedom of my color. It is our own - we will defend it or perish.
— Toussaint Louverture
Freedom is something that dies unless it's used.
— Hunter S. Thompson
I will not leave South Africa, nor will I surrender. Only through hardship, sacrifice and militant action can freedom be won. The struggle is my life. I will continue fighting for freedom until the end of my days.
— Nelson Mandela
The oppressed, having internalized the image of the oppressor and adopted his guidelines, are fearful of freedom.
— Paulo Freire
Oppressed people cannot remain oppressed forever. The yearning for freedom eventually manifests itself.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
People are dying in vain because this country isn't holding their end of the bargain up as far as, you know, giving freedom and justice and liberty to everybody.
— Colin Kaepernick
How often I have found that we grow to maturity not by doing what we like, but by doing what we should. How true it is that not every 'should' is a compulsion, and not every 'like' is a high morality and true freedom.
— Karl Rahner
The essence of mathematics lies in its freedom.
— Georg Cantor
How does the Meadow flower its bloom unfold? Because the lovely little flower is free down to its root, and in that freedom bold.
— William Wordsworth
Every time you pass a law, it is a little bite out of freedom.
— Gary Johnson
I grew up with the understanding that the world I lived in was one where people enjoyed a sort of freedom to communicate with each other in privacy, without it being monitored, without it being measured or analyzed or sort of judged by these shadowy figures or systems, any time they mention anything that travels across public lines.
— Edward Snowden
Free people, remember this maxim: we may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lost.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
They won't break me because the desire for freedom, and the freedom of the Irish people, is in my heart. The day will dawn when all the people of Ireland will have the desire for freedom to show. It is then that we will see the rising of the moon.
— Bobby Sands
'Emergencies' have always been the pretext on which the safeguards of individual liberty have been eroded.
— Friedrich August von Hayek
I think that what I have been truly searching for as a person, as a writer, as a thinker, as a daughter, is freedom. That is my mission. A sense of liberty, the liberty that comes not only from self-awareness but also from letting go of many things. Many things that weigh us down.
— Jhumpa Lahiri
We have the highest incarceration rate of any country in the world. 'America, land of liberty and freedom?' You know, that's baloney. More than 2 million Americans are behind bars now. Communist China has four times the population and they have 1.5 million people behind bars.
— Gary Johnson
Pervading nationalism imposes its dominion on man today in many different forms and with an aggressiveness that spares no one. The challenge that is already with us is the temptation to accept as true freedom what in reality is only a new form of slavery.
— Pope John Paul II
While the State exists there can be no freedom when there is freedom there will be no State. 
— Vladimir Lenin
Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty.
— Frank Herbert
Freedom granted only when it is known beforehand that its effects will be beneficial is not freedom.
— Friedrich August von Hayek
I am just absolutely convinced that the best formula for giving us peace and preserving the American way of life is freedom, limited government, and minding our own business overseas.
— Ron Paul
It is easy to believe in freedom of speech for those with whom we agree.
— Leo McKern
Freedom of expression is the matrix, the indispensable condition, of nearly every other form of freedom.
— Benjamin Cardozo
We are willing enough to praise freedom when she is safely tucked away in the past and cannot be a nuisance. In the present, amidst dangers whose outcome we cannot foresee, we get nervous about her, and admit censorship.
— E. M. Forster
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 I'm mostly looking forward to the college life. I'm looking forward to more freedom. Here everything is really structured and scheduled, but in college you've got to be more responsible and you can get things done on your own time. I'm really looking forward to that.
— Nerlens Noel
The American flag is the most recognized symbol of freedom and democracy in the world.
— Virginia Foxx
Jazz stands for freedom. It's supposed to be the voice of freedom: Get out there and improvise, and take chances, and don't be a perfectionist - leave that to the classical musicians.
— Dave Brubeck
Governments that block the aspirations of their people, that steal or are corrupt, that oppress and torture or that deny freedom of expression and human rights should bear in mind that they will find it increasingly hard to escape the judgement of their own people, or where warranted, the reach of international law.
— William Hague
For your own self-respect and sanity, your creative freedom, you have to be careful that you don't rely too much on other people's opinions of what you do because it can stunt and inhibit you.
— Luke Evans
Modernism released us from the constraints of everything that had gone before with a euphoric sense of freedom.
— Arthur Erickson
The path we have chosen for the present is full of hazards, as all paths are. The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission.
— John F. Kennedy
Religious freedom is too sacred a right to be restricted or prohibited in any degree without convincing proof that a legitimate interest of the state is in grave danger.
— Frank Murphy
In a completely sane world, madness is the only freedom.
— J. G. Ballard
I am a Republican, a black, dyed in the wool Republican, and I never intend to belong to any other party than the party of freedom and progress.
— Frederick Douglass
To be able to love and live in freedom means to be able to make godly decisions. To make godly decisions we have to surrender our egos and all the falsity and shame that goes with it.
— James McGreevey
Our single most important challenge is therefore to help establish a social order in which the freedom of the individual will truly mean the freedom of the individual.
— Nelson Mandela
I have always that there ought to be some kind of mandatory national service, not necessarily in the military but to show everybody that freedom isn't free, that everybody has an obligation to the nation as a community.
— Robert M. Gates
Freedom is not given to us by anyone we have to cultivate it ourselves. It is a daily practice... No one can prevent you from being aware of each step you take or each breath in and breath out. 
— Thich Nhat Hanh
Communists have always played an active role in the fight by colonial countries for their freedom, because the short-term objects of Communism would always correspond with the long-term objects of freedom movements.
— Nelson Mandela
The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom.
— Lady Bird Johnson
Enlightenment values of individual freedom are manifested best in individual acts of criticism and defiance.
— Pankaj Mishra
Freedom from effort in the present merely means that there has been effort stored up in the past.
— Theodore Roosevelt
I'm interested in anything about revolt, disorder, chaos, especially activity that appears to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom.
— Jim Morrison
Our culture is just a series of checks and balances. The whole idea that we're in a battle between tyranny and freedom - it's a series of pendulum swings.
— Jon Stewart
Without economic development, any potential for political openness and freedom will be questionable.
— Jose Maria Aznar
It is harder to preserve than to obtain liberty.
— John C. Calhoun
Freedom is the oxygen of the soul.
— Moshe Dayan
A new breeze is blowing, and a world refreshed by freedom seems reborn; for in man's heart, if not in fact, the day of the dictator is over. The totalitarian era is passing, its old ideas blown away like leaves from an ancient, lifeless tree.
— George H. W. Bush
There are forces all around you who wish to exploit division, rob you of your freedom, and tell you what to think. But young folks can rekindle the weary spirit of a slumbering nation.
— Wynton Marsalis
Collective freedom provides the basic conditions for people to narrate their own lives, hold power accountable, and embrace a capacious notion of human dignity.
— Henry Giroux
The desire of gold is not for gold. It is for the means of freedom and benefit.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The river flows at its own sweet will, but the flood is bound in the two banks. If it were not thus bound, its freedom would be wasted.
— Vinoba Bhave
We need love, and to ensure love, we need to have full employment, and we need social justice. We need gender equity. We need freedom from hunger. These are our most fundamental needs as social creatures.
— David Suzuki
God tolerates even our stammering, and pardons our ignorance whenever something inadvertently escapes us - as, indeed, without this mercy there would be no freedom to pray.
— John Calvin
The road to freedom must be uphill, even if it is arduous and frustrating.
— Andrew Goodman
It's my view that gender is culturally formed, but it's also a domain of agency or freedom and that it is most important to resist the violence that is imposed by ideal gender norms, especially against those who are gender different, who are nonconforming in their gender presentation.
— Judith Butler
Emancipation from the bondage of the soil is no freedom for the tree.
— Rabindranath Tagore
Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are inevitably ruined.
— Patrick Henry
There is no such thing as part freedom.
— Nelson Mandela
I've sold my soul for freedom. It's lonely but it's sweet.
— Melissa Etheridge
Ultimately, America's answer to the intolerant man is diversity, the very diversity which our heritage of religious freedom has inspired.
— Robert Kennedy
Freedom, morality, and the human dignity of the individual consists precisely in this; that he does good not because he is forced to do so, but because he freely conceives it, wants it, and loves it.
— Mikhail Bakunin
We do not consecrate the flag by punishing its desecration, for in doing so, we dilute the freedom this cherished emblem represents.
— William J. Brennan, Jr.
A nation which makes the final sacrifice for life and freedom does not get beaten.
— Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
I fight, and have fought, for political freedom, for justice and for fairness and freedom of speech.
— Teresa Heinz
I believe firmly that in making ethical decisions, man has the prerogative of true freedom of choice.
— Corliss Lamont
Mountains are freedom. Treat them respectfully.
— Conrad Anker
The only certain freedom's in departure.
— Robert Frost
By limiting or denying freedom of speech and expression, we take away a lot of potential. We take away thoughts and ideas before they even have the opportunity to hatch. We build a world around negatives - you can't say, think, or do this or that.
— Jill McCorkle
Telling a story in a futuristic world gives you this freedom to explore things that bother you in contemporary times.
— Suzanne Collins
You don't have true freedom until you allow a diversity of opinion and a diversity of voices.
— Don Lemon
The freedom of thought is a sacred right of every individual man, and diversity will continue to increase with the progress, refinement, and differentiation of the human intellect.
— Felix Adler
Whenever regulation increases, personal freedom decreases.
— Alan Wilson
Freedom is never granted it is won. 
— A. Philip Randolph
Woe to that nation whose literature is cut short by the intrusion of force. This is not merely interference with freedom of the press but the sealing up of a nation's heart, the excision of its memory.
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
The only way that has ever been discovered to have a lot of people cooperate together voluntarily is through the free market. And that's why it's so essential to preserving individual freedom.
— Milton Friedman
We must plan for freedom, and not only for security, if for no other reason than that only freedom can make security secure.
— Karl Popper
Among the many values in life, I appreciate freedom most.
— Haruki Murakami
My desire to curtail undue freedom of speech extends only to such public areas as restaurants, airports, streets, hotel lobbies, parks, and department stores. Verbal exchanges between consenting adults in private are as of little interest to me as they probably are to them.
— Fran Lebowitz
I have said democracy and freedom do not work too well if you are hungry, if you are starving.
— Pete Domenici
The freedom to connect to the world anywhere at anytime brings with it the threat of unscrupulous predators and criminals who mask their activities with the anonymity the Internet provides to its users.
— Mike Fitzpatrick
As one gets older one sees many more paths that could be taken. Artists sense within their own work that kind of swelling of possibilities, which may seem a freedom or a confusion.
— Jasper Johns
Every friend of freedom must be as revolted as I am by the prospect of turning the United States into an armed camp, by the vision of jails filled with casual drug users and of an army of enforcers empowered to invade the liberty of citizens on slight evidence.
— Milton Friedman
Human beings want to be free and however long they may agree to stay locked up, to stay oppressed, there will come a time when they say 'That's it.' Suddenly they find themselves doing something that they never would have thought they would be doing, simply because of the human instinct that makes them turn their face towards freedom.
— Aung San Suu Kyi
Free software is software that respects your freedom and the social solidarity of your community. So it's free as in freedom.
— Richard Stallman
America's commitment to religious freedom and tolerance should not be conditional.
— Mark McKinnon
I love the simplicity and freedom of running. A pair of shoes, and you are all set to explore new trails.
— Rachel Boston
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
Freedom means you are unobstructed in living your life as you choose. Anything less is a form of slavery.
— Wayne Dyer
A man is either free or he is not. There cannot be any apprenticeship for freedom.
— Amiri Baraka
The best thing about being rich is the freedom freedom to do whatever you want whenever you want. It doesn't suck. 
— Tommy Lee
The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave.
— Thomas Jefferson
I want you to have this feeling too - it is my moral responsibility to help you achieve this inner freedom.
— Dmitri Mendeleev
I had crossed the line. I was free but there was no one to welcome me to the land of freedom. I was a stranger in a strange land. 
— Harriet Tubman
Punk has always been about doing things your own way. What it represents for me is ultimate freedom and a sense of individuality.
— Billie Joe Armstrong
Your life is the sum result of all the choices you make, both consciously and unconsciously. If you can control the process of choosing, you can take control of all aspects of your life. You can find the freedom that comes from being in charge of yourself.
— Robert Foster Bennett
Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty - his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.
— Aldous Huxley
He only earns his freedom and his life Who takes them every day by storm.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe