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There is no power in the world that can stop the forward march of free men and women when they are joined in the solidarity of human brotherhood.Collection: Freedom
The land free, the land free for all, land without overseers and without masters.Collection: Freedom
But you must remember, my fellow-citizens, that eternal vigilance by the people is the price of liberty, and that you must pay the price if you wish to secure the blessing.Collection: Freedom
In short, my vision of a responsible free society is one in which we discourage evil, but do not prohibit it. We make our children and students aware of the consequences of drug abuse and other forms of irresponsible behavior. But after all our persuading, if they still want to use harmful drugs, that is their privilege. In a free society, individuals must have the right to do right or wrong, as long as they don't threaten or infringe upon the rights or property of others. They must also suffer the consequences of their actions, as it is from consequences that they learn to choose properlyCollection: Freedom
My white skin disgusts me. My passport disgusts me. They are the marks of an insufferable privilege bought at the price of others' agony. If I could peel myself inside out I would be glad. If I could become part of the oppressed I would be free.Collection: Freedom
Freedom of speech includes the freedom to offend people.Collection: Freedom
There must be no barriers to freedom of inquiry... There is no place for dogma in science. The scientist is free, and must be free to ask any question, to doubt any assertion, to seek for any evidence, to correct any errors. Our political life is also predicated on openness. We know that the only way to avoid error is to detect it and that the only way to detect it is to be free to inquire. And we know that as long as men are free to ask what they must, free to say what they think, free to think what they will, freedom can never be lost, and science can never regress.Collection: Freedom
Science had better not free the minds of men too much, before it has tamed their instincts.Collection: Freedom
The remaining liberty of the world was to be destroyed in the place where it stood.Collection: Freedom
I never would have agreed to the formulation of the Central Intelligence Agency back in forty-seven, if I had known it would become the American Gestapo.Collection: Freedom
Where there is no freedom, there is death and destruction.Collection: Freedom
liberty is the one thing no man can have unless he grants it to others.Collection: Freedom
The American people will never knowingly adopt socialism. But, under the name of 'liberalism,' they will adopt every fragment of the socialist program, until one day America will be a socialist nation, without knowing how it happened.Collection: Freedom
The only means of ridding man of crime is ridding him of freedom.Collection: Freedom
Those who choose to be servants know the most about being free.Collection: Freedom
We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.Collection: Freedom
No single person, including the President of the United States, should ever be given the power to make a medical decision for potentially millions of Americans. Freedom over one's physical person is the most basic freedom of all, and people in a free society should be sovereign over their own bodies. When we give government the power to make medical decisions for us, we in essence accept that the state owns our bodies.Collection: Freedom
I personally call the type of government which can be removed without violence 'democracy,' and the other, 'tyranny.'.Collection: Freedom
Freedom is not simply the circumstances that allow you to do whatever you want. Freedom is not only the opportunity to choose. Freedom is the strength of character to choose and to do what is right. With that in mind, our age is not an age of freedom, but an age of slavery. It is subtle, but it is real. The foundation of freedom is not power or choice. Freedom is upheld not by men and women in government, but by people who govern themselves.Collection: Freedom
There is no "slippery slope" toward loss of liberty, only a long staircase where each step down must first be tolerated by the American people and their leaders.Collection: Freedom
Men are created different; they lose their social freedom and their individual autonomy in seeking to become like each other.Collection: Freedom
Freedom is not a gift of heaven, you have to fight for it every dayCollection: Freedom
There is no freedom without justice.Collection: Freedom
Freedom is the power to create out of nothing, the power of the spirit to create out of itself.Collection: Freedom
If we lose freedom here, there is no place to escape to. This is the last stand on earth.Collection: Freedom
Freedom is a fragile thing and is never more than one generation away from extinction. It is not ours by inheritance; it must be fought for and defended constantly by each generation, for it comes only once to a people. Those who have known freedom, and then lost it, have never known it again.Collection: Freedom
Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the Government's purposes are beneficent. Men born to freedom are naturally alert to repel invasion of their liberty by evil-minded rulers. The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in the insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning but without understanding.Collection: Freedom
A man must keep a little back shop where he can be himself without reserve. In solitude alone can he know true freedom.Collection: Freedom
Free is not the same as free and easy.Collection: Freedom
Democracy evolves where freedom is able to determine its own policy.Collection: Freedom
I needed to stop being what everyone thought I was.Collection: Freedom
Secret thoughts are only half free: they fly undisturbed in the skies of the inner freedom, but they can never leave them.Collection: Freedom
Inner freedom demands the rejection of any imposition that injures our dignity.Collection: Freedom
Walk where your heart leads you, there are no restrictions and no burdens.Collection: Freedom
Freedom is too enormous to be slipped under a closet door.Collection: Freedom
Can there be any liberty where property is taken away without consent?Collection: Freedom
There can be no prescription old enough to supersede the Law of Nature and the grant of God Almighty, who has given to all men a natural right to be free, and they have it ordinarily in their power to make themselves so, if they please.Collection: Freedom
Freedom-no word was ever spoken that has held out greater hope, demanded greater sacrifice, needed more to be nurtured, blessed more the giver. . . or came closer to being God's will on earth.Collection: Freedom
The free exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world.Collection: Freedom
Freedom for the wolves has often meant death to the sheep.Collection: Freedom
But to manipulate men, to propel them toward goals which you-the social reformers-see, but they may not, is to deny their human essence, to treat them as objects without wills of their own, and therefore to degrade them.Collection: Freedom
I had to learn that there is more to the human being than material comfort, more than success, more even than national spirit or patriotism. That in any being worthy of being human there is also a demand for justice, for liberty, and that justice needs the evidence of all our lives, liberty is one and indivisible and collective, and no one can talk of justice solely for expediency's sake, nor of liberty while human beings, anywhere else on earth, are still in bondage.Collection: Freedom
The people who, in order to enjoy the liberty which suites them, resort to the representative system, must exercise an active and constant surveillance over their representatives, and reserve for themselves...the right to discard them if they betray their trust, and to revoke the powers which them might have abused.Collection: Freedom
Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.Collection: Freedom
Democracy feeds on argument, on the discussion as to the right way forward. This is the reason why respecting the opinion of others belongs to democracy.Collection: Freedom
There is in fact a manly and legitimate passion for equality that spurs all men to wish to be strong and esteemed. This passion tends to elevate the lesser to the rank of the greater. But one also finds in the human heart a depraved taste for equality, which impels the weak to want to bring the strong down to their level, and which reduces men to preferring equality in servitude to inequality in freedom.Collection: Freedom
Chaos is lawless behavior governed entirely by law.Collection: Freedom
Freedom unexercised may become freedom forfeited.Collection: Freedom