Freedom quotes

I can go down the road any time I want and walk into Harry's and hold my head up high and say in a loud, steady voice: “Harry, I want you to sell me a condom. In fact, today, I think I'll have a french tickler, for I am a Protestant”.
Graham Arthur Chapman - Harry Blackitt

“All of us have heard the story of Icarus, the young boy who took the wings his father built for him. Wings that were meant to carry him over the ocean to freedom and used them instead for a joyride. For a brief moment Icarus felt what it was like to live like a god, to touch the sun, to soar above the common man. And for doing so he payed the...” (continue)(continue reading)
Brad Renfro - Todd Bowden

“Anywhere's our home. On the road. Out there on a cold star. Anywhere's our home.”
Sylvia Sidney - Joan Graham

“- Meg: Why did you leave?
- Sam: I couldn't stay. I felt like drowning.”
Danielle Spencer - Meg
Robert Mammone - Sam

“- Jackie: If you're free for the weekend, there's a lot going on. This is New York!
- Doorman: Free for the weekend? I'll never be free as long as I'm a black man in America!”
Deborah Luce - Jackie
Ed Battle - Doorman

“- The Motorcycle Boy: They belong in the river. I don't think they would fight if they were in the river. If they had room to live.
- Patterson the Cop: Someone ought to get you off the streets.
- The Motorcycle Boy: Somebody ought to put the fish in the river.”

Mickey Rourke - The Motorcycle Boy
William Smith - Patterson the Cop

“What good would wings be if you couldn't feel the wind on your face?”
Meg Ryan - Dr. Maggie Rice

“- Eowyn: I fear neither death nor pain.
- Aragorn: What do you fear, my lady?
- Eowyn: A cage. To stay behind bars until use and old age accept them and all chance of valor has gone beyond recall or desire.
- Aragorn: You are a daughter of kings, a shield maiden of Rohan. I do not think that will be your fate.”
Miranda Otto - Eowyn
Viggo Mortensen - Aragorn

“As God as my witness, i won't let my father die in prison.”
Keira Knightley - Gwyn

“This is a free country, you can be a communist if you want to be a communist!”

Laurie Holden - Adele Stanton

“Corporations and broadcasters make you dead meat / You been taught in this country there's speech that is free / But free don't get you no spots on TV / If you want to have senators not on the take / Then give them free air time / They won't have to fake / Telecommunications is the name of the beast / that, that, that, that, that's eating up the...” (continue)(continue reading)

Warren Beatty - Jay Bulworth

“They wanted me to die, knowing the key to my freedom was out there somewhere!”
Kevin Spacey - David Gale

“The truth is, there is something terribly wrong with this country, isn't there? Cruelty and injustice, intolerance and oppression. And where once you had the freedom to object, to think and speak as you saw fit, you now have censors and systems of surveillance coercing your conformity and soliciting your submission.”

Hugo Weaving - V

“- Victor Van Dort: I made a promise.
- Corpse Bride: You kept your promise. You set me free. Now I can do the same for you.”
Johnny Depp - Victor Van Dort
Helena Bonham Carter - Corpse Bride

- Picket Reporter: Mr. Fishpaw, I'm Jerry Haller from Channel 12 News. Um, I was wondering, could you make a comment on this demonstration against your X-rated movie theater?
- Elmer Fishpaw: I'll show any movie I wanna show! This is a free country, isn't it? Our current attraction is "My Burning Bush". We have shows daily at 2, 4, 6, 8 and 10... (continue)(continue reading)
Jim Hill - Picket Reporter
David Samson - Elmer Fishpaw

“We must stop saying that sabotage is wrong, that it doesn't pay. It does pay! It makes us suffer, starve, and die. But, though it increases our misery, it will shorten our slavery.”
Charles Laughton - Albert Lory

“Now you can go anywhere you want, baby.”

Cher - Rusty Dennis

“- Nisus Wettus: Crucifixion?
- Mr. Cheeky: No, freedom actually.
- Nisus Wettus: What?
- Mr. Cheeky: They said I hadn't done anything and I could go and live on an island somewhere.”
Michael Palin - Nisus Wettus
Eric Idle - Mr. Cheeky

“You can bury freedom but you can't kill it.”
Lucas Black - Peejoe

“- Malloy: This is your last chance, hotshot.
- Snake Plissken: For what?
- Malloy: Freedom.
- Snake Plissken: In America? That died a long time ago.”
Stacy Keach - Cmdr. Malloy
Kurt Russell - Snake Plissken

“Oh Mommie. I always loved you so. It's over. The Pain. There's no more pain. You're free. Free. Oh Mommie...”

Diana Scarwid - Christina Crawford (adult)

“Gentlemen of the jury, don't let this country go to the devil. Free Jabez Stone. God bless the United States and the men who made her free.”

Edward Arnold - Daniel Webster

“You can never explain to someone who uses God's gift to enslave, that you have used God's gift to be free.”
Michael Wincott - Rene Ricard

“Cooperate and you're a free man, Lassiter. Cross me and you'll do twenty hard years.”
Bob Hoskins - Inspector John Becker

“- Wilma Cameron: Tell me the truth, Homer. Do you want me to forget about you?
- Homer Parrish: I want you to be free, Wilma, to live your own life. I don't want you tied down forever just because you've got a kind heart.”
Cathy O'Donnell - Wilma Cameron
Harold Russell - Homer Parrish