Liberty and Freedom: Quotes to Inspire Free Spirits - Page 19

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Image of Charles August Lindbergh
The financial system has been turned over to the Federal Reserve Board. That Board administers the finance system by authority of a purely profiteering group. The system is Private, conducted for the sole purpose of obtaining the greatest possible profits from the use of other people's money.
- Charles August Lindbergh
Collection: Freedom
Image of Ricardo Flores Magon
We are free, truly free, when we don't need to rent our arms to anybody in order to be able to lift a piece of bread to our mouths.
- Ricardo Flores Magon
Collection: Freedom
Image of Mikhail Kalinin
If you are called upon to govern humans, treat them humanely.
- Mikhail Kalinin
Collection: Freedom
Image of Septima Poinsette Clark
The air has finally gotten to the place that we can breathe it together.
- Septima Poinsette Clark
Collection: Freedom
Image of Vladimir Korolenko
People aren't angels woven of light, but neither are they beasts to be driven into stalls.
- Vladimir Korolenko
Collection: Freedom
Image of Etienne de La Boetie
Resolve to serve no more, and you are at once freed. I do not ask that you place hands upon the tyrant to topple him over, but simply that you support him no longer; then you will behold him, like a great Colossus whose pedestal has been pulled away, fall of his own weight and break into pieces.
- Etienne de La Boetie
Collection: Freedom
Image of Etienne de La Boetie
Resolve to serve no more, and you are at once freed.
- Etienne de La Boetie
Collection: Freedom
Image of Leon Blum
A free man is he who does not fear to go to the end of his thought.
- Leon Blum
Collection: Freedom
Image of James H. Cone
To sing about freedom and to pray for its coming is not enough. Freedom must be actualized in history by oppressed peoples who accept the intellectual challenge to analyze the world for the purpose of changing it.
- James H. Cone
Collection: Freedom
Image of Joseph Cook
Safe popular freedom consists of four things, the diffusion of liberty, of intelligence, of property, and of conscientiousness, and cannot be compounded of any three out of the four.
- Joseph Cook
Collection: Freedom
Image of Origen
Free will is the power of choosing good and evil.
- Origen
Collection: Freedom
Image of Alexander Fraser Tytler
A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until a majority of voters discover that they can vote themselves largess out of the public treasury.
- Alexander Fraser Tytler
Collection: Freedom
Image of Giannina Braschi
Ambulances always come with clouds of smoke. And then they disappear in a whistle. But what they bring is fear. Not freedom. Feardom is what they bring. And they bring fire and smoke. Oh, my nerves are bad tonight, yes, bad. I fear freedom. I, above all, fear the freedom that is above all feardom.
- Giannina Braschi
Collection: Freedom
Image of Salvador de Madariaga
He is free knows how to keep in his own hands the power to decide.
- Salvador de Madariaga
Collection: Freedom
Image of Lina Wertmuller
When you can use dirty words in every situation with everyone, that's a real big liberation.
- Lina Wertmuller
Collection: Freedom
Image of Madame Roland
If we do not die for liberty, we shall soon have nothing left to do but weep for her.
- Madame Roland
Collection: Freedom
Image of Madame Roland
Oh Liberty! Liberty! What crimes are committed in your name!
- Madame Roland
Collection: Freedom
Image of Oliver Ellsworth
Liberty is a word which, according as it is used, comprehends the most good and the most evil of any in the world. Justly understood it is sacred next to those which we appropriate in divine adoration; but in the mouths of some it means anything, which enervate a necessary government; excite a jealousy of the rulers who are our own choice, and keep society in confusion for want of a power sufficiently concentered to promote good.
- Oliver Ellsworth
Collection: Freedom
Image of Ajahn Brahm
Silence is so much more productive of wisdom and clarity in thinking.
- Ajahn Brahm
Collection: Freedom
Image of Bruce Bartlett
Democrats will play the old Washington game of calling reductions in the rate of growth of spending for any program a 'cut'.
- Bruce Bartlett
Collection: Freedom
Image of Vincenzo Galilei
It appears to me that those who rely simply on the weight of authority to prove any assertion, without searching out the arguments to support it, act absurdly. I wish to question freely and to answer freely without any sort of adulation. That well becomes any who are sincere in the search for truth.
- Vincenzo Galilei
Collection: Freedom
Image of Ibn Khaldun
At the beginning of a dynasty, taxation yields a large revenue from small assessments. At the end of the dynasty, taxation yields a small revenue from large assessments.
- Ibn Khaldun
Collection: Freedom
Image of Neil McDonald
Whatever the immediate gains and losses, the dangers to our safety arising from political suppression are always greater than the dangers to the safety resulting from political freedom. Suppression is always foolish.
- Neil McDonald
Collection: Freedom
Image of Charles Sumner
Without security, civilization is cramped and dwarfed. Without security, there can be no freedom. Nor shall I say too much, when I declare that security, guarded of course by its offspring, freedom, is the true end and aim of government.
- Charles Sumner
Collection: Freedom
Image of Thomas Bailey Aldrich
O Liberty...! is it well To leave the gates unguarded?
- Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Collection: Freedom
Image of Henry Campbell-Bannerman
Good government could never be a substitute for government by the people themselves.
- Henry Campbell-Bannerman
Collection: Freedom
Image of Aminu Kano
The road to freedom is full of thorns and fire, yet happy is he who follows it!
- Aminu Kano
Collection: Freedom
Image of Christina, Queen of Sweden
I was born, have lived, and will die free.
- Christina, Queen of Sweden
Collection: Freedom
Image of Frederick Chiluba
The greatest lesson we can learn from the past. . . is that freedom is at the core of every successful nation in the world.
- Frederick Chiluba
Collection: Freedom
Image of Richard Henry Lee
It must never be forgotten...that the liberties of the people are not so safe under the gracious manner of government as by the limitation of power.
- Richard Henry Lee
Collection: Freedom
Image of Richard Henry Lee
The first maxim of a man who loves liberty, should be never to grant to rulers an atom of power that is not most clearly and indispensably necessary for the safety and well being of society.
- Richard Henry Lee
Collection: Freedom
Image of Sir Fulke Greville
Whatever natural right men may have to freedom and independency, it is manifest that some men have a natural ascendency over others.
- Sir Fulke Greville
Collection: Freedom
Image of Herbert V. Prochnow
We have come to world leadership because our people have had the opportunity to develop this nation under a government and a Constitution that gave them political freedom and encouraged initiative, enterprise, responsibility, industry and thrift. Freedom and achievement are not unrelated. This nation has become one of history's finest illustrations of how a people can enrich life and raise their whole level of economic well-being when they are given justice, liberty and incentive.
- Herbert V. Prochnow
Collection: Freedom
Image of Nikolay Chernyshevsky
Whatever field of human activity one may take, only those trends that are in harmony with the needs of society show rapid progress.
- Nikolay Chernyshevsky
Collection: Freedom
Image of Edwin Arnold
Within yourself deliverance must be searched for, because each man makes hiw own prison.
- Edwin Arnold
Collection: Freedom
Image of Aaron Tippin
Yes there's a lady that stands in a harbor for what we believe. And there's a bell that still echoes the price that it cost to be free.
- Aaron Tippin
Collection: Freedom
Image of Walter Block
Protectionism is a misnomer. The only people protected by tariffs, quotas and trade restrictions are those engaged in uneconomic and wasteful activity. Free trade is the only philosophy compatible with international peace and prosperity.
- Walter Block
Collection: Freedom
Image of Edward Francis Hutton
If business is going to continue to sell through the decades, it must also promote an understanding of what made those products possible, what is necessary to a free market, and what our free market means to the individual liberty of each of us, to be certain that the freedoms under which this nation was born and brought to this point shall endure in the future ... for America is the product of our freedoms.
- Edward Francis Hutton
Collection: Freedom
Image of Andrew Joseph Galambos
[Freedom is] the societal condition that exists when every individual has 100% control of his own property.
- Andrew Joseph Galambos
Collection: Freedom
Image of Gerald Massey
I was a dweller amid shadows grim: Till FREEDOM touched my yearning eyes, and lo! Life in a shining circle, rounding rose, As heaven on heaven goes up the jewell'd night. New floods of passionate life swirl'd at my heart, Like Ocean-surges rolling round the world: And FREEDOM was my glittering Bride.
- Gerald Massey
Collection: Freedom
Image of William J. Clinton
The road to tyranny, we must never forget, begins with the destruction of the truth.
- William J. Clinton
Collection: Freedom
Image of Theo van Doesburg
To be oneself is being neither under bond nor borrowed nor sold nor hired. To be, means to be spiritually free.
- Theo van Doesburg
Collection: Freedom
Image of Fernando Araujo Perdomo
Each painting evolves freely and independently.
- Fernando Araujo Perdomo
Collection: Freedom
Image of Pat Derby
You have to love animals for what they are or leave them alone. The best thing you can do if you love them is leave them alone and see that other people do too.
- Pat Derby
Collection: Freedom
Image of Pat Derby
Wild animals are not meant to be owned, any more than human beings are. Nobody has the right to pass a cougar or a gorilla on from hand to hand.
- Pat Derby
Collection: Freedom
Image of Vasily Zhukovsky
He who fox-like got his rank, Is wolf-like in his office.
- Vasily Zhukovsky
Collection: Freedom
Image of Richard J. Maybury
You will never meet anyone who admires the American founders more than I do, but they were human, they made mistakes. Perhaps their worst was that their Bill of Rights stops at the border. Inside the US, the federal government has been limited. Beyond the borders, the government has been able to do anything it wanted.
- Richard J. Maybury
Collection: Freedom
Image of Richard J. Maybury
Do all you have agreed to do, and do not encroach on other persons or their property.
- Richard J. Maybury
Collection: Freedom