Freedom quotes

“- Eva: You're Frank and this is your place?
- Frank Lucas: That's right. I'm Frank and this is my place.
- Eva: Why is it called Small's? Why don't you call it Frank's?
- Frank Lucas: When you own something, you can call it what you want.”
Lymari Nadal - Eva
Denzel Washington - Frank Lucas

“The most barbaric atrocities occur when both combatants proclaim themselves freedom fighters.”
Nicolas Cage - Yuri Orlov

“- Surgeon: Lincoln is gonna issue an emancipation proclamation. Gonna free the slaves.
- Col. Robert Gould Shaw: What?
- Surgeon: Well, maybe not the ones in the border states but he's gonna free some of 'em, anyway.
- Col. Robert Gould Shaw: My God.
- Surgeon: Yeah, he said he would have done it sooner, only he was waiting for a big victory,...” (continue)(continue reading)
Pete Munro - Surgeon
Matthew Broderick - Col. Robert Gould Shaw

“- Cassian: So, you're free?
- John Wick: Am I?
- Cassian: No. Not at all. You killed my ward. Someone I was close to. An eye for an eye, John. You know how it goes.
- John Wick: Yeah.”
Common - Cassian
Keanu Reeves - John Wick

“Fascinating! Semmi, look at this! America is great indeed. Imagine a country so free, one can throw glass on the streets!”
Eddie Murphy - Prince Akeem

“In Moscow we fought for an inch of freedom! Here you take it and pour shit all over it.”
Robin Williams - Vladimir Ivanoff

“I service society by rocking, ok? I'm out there on the front lines liberating people with my music!”
Jack Black - Dewey Finn

“- Clifford: You've got a live gig here tomorrow. It's my job to see that you turn up. My bum is on the line, here!
- Posh Spice: Can you please leave butts and bums out of this, for one minute?
- Sporty Spice: Clifford, some things are more important than gigs, you know.
- Clifford: Like what?
- Ginger Spice: Like self respect and our freedom,...” (continue)(continue reading)

Richard R. Grant - Clifford
Victoria Beckham - Posh Spice
Melanie C - Sporty Spice
Geri Horner - Ginger Spice

“I will not fall into despair! I will keep myself hardy until freedom is opportune!”
Chiwetel Ejiofor - Solomon Northup

“- Solomon Northup: Master Ford, you must know: I am not a slave.
- Ford: I cannot hear that.
- Solomon Northup: Before I came to you, I was a free man.”
Chiwetel Ejiofor - Solomon Northup
Benedict Cumberbatch - Ford

“ It is easy to believe in freedom of speech for those with whom we agree.”
Leo McKern

“Money to me is just the biggest blessing in the world that allows me freedom.”
Linda Evans

Two years ago I proclaimed these people emancipated: "then, hence forward and forever free". But let's say the courts decide I had no authority to do it. They might well decide that.
Daniel Day-Lewis - Abraham Lincoln

“I would rather be a rebel than a slave.”
Meryl Streep - Emmeline Pankhurst

“This is New York City. A man can do whatever he wants.”
Royce Rich - Bloomingdale's Cop

“- Sheriff Chris Mannix: May I sit down, sir?
- General Sandy Smithers: According to the Yankees, it's a free country.”
Walton Goggins - Sheriff Chris Mannix
Bruce Dern - General Sandy Smithers

“Education doesn't make you happy. And what is freedom? We don't become happy just because we are free, if we are. Or because we have been educated, if we have. But because education may be the means by which we realize we are happy.”
Dame Judi Dench - Iris Murdoch

“It is not a question of what a Spartan citizen should do, nor a husband, nor a king. Instead, ask yourself what should a free man do?”

Lena Headey - Queen Gorgo

“[Education] Convinces us that there is only one freedom of any importance whatsoever: that of the mind. And give us the assurance, the confidence, to walk the path our mind, our educated mind, offers.”
Dame Judi Dench - Iris Murdoch

“It begins as a whisper, a promise, the lightest of breezes dances above the death cries of 300 men. That breeze became a wind. A wind that my brothers have sacrificed. A wind of freedom, a wind of justice, a wind of vengeance.”
Lena Headey - Queen Gorgo

“From this day forward we declare the land north of Pascagoula Swamp, south of enterprise and east to the Pearl River to the Alabama border, to be a Free State of Jones.”
Matthew McConaughey - Newton Knight

“- Taro: To hell with Nekron and his offer. We are free men, not slaves.
- Subhuman: King Jarol, be reasonable.
- Jarol: My son, Taro, speaks more with his heart than with his head. But he speaks for all of us.
- Taro: There can be no alliance. We will fight you to the death.
- Subhuman: Perhaps, you will soon change your mind.”
William Ostrander - Taro
Jimmy Bridges - Subhuman
Leo Gordon - Jarol

“Imagine you've spent your whole life in other parts of the world being told every day you're defending freedom. And finally you decide you've had enough. Time to see what you've given up your whole life for. Maybe get some of that freedom for yourself.”

Tom Cruise - Jack Reacher

“This is our fucking city! And nobody is going to dictate our freedom. Stay strong!”

David Ortiz - Himself

“I can't bear this lightness, this freedom... I'm not strong enough.”

Juliette Binoche - Tereza