Liberty and Freedom: Quotes to Inspire Free Spirits - Page 22
Explore powerful quotes about freedom and liberty from world-renowned leaders and thinkers. Ignite your spirit of independence. Page 22 provides more freedom quotes.
absolute liberty ... tends to corrupt absolutely.Collection: Freedom
If yet your blood does not rage, then it is water that flows in your veins. For what is the flush of youth, if it is not of service to the motherland.Collection: Freedom
If liberty is worth keeping and free representative government worth saving, we must stand for all American fundamentals-not some, but all. All are woven into the great fabric of our national well-being. We cannot hold fast to some only, and abandon others that, for the moment, we find inconvenient. If one American fundamental is prostrated, others in the end will surely fall.Collection: Freedom
Remember, when you hear them beginning to say "freedom" look carefully-. see who it is they want you to butcher.Collection: Freedom
Every virtuous man is free.Collection: Freedom
It almost alarms me how free I feel on the ice. I don't think about the hospital or the groceries or the kids--I'm just in touch with myself. It's exciting when your whole body is moving in synchronous motion.Collection: Freedom
All the freedom enjoyed in America, beyond what is enjoyed in England, is enjoyed solely by the disorderly at the expense of the orderly.Collection: Freedom
Freedom is the greatest fruit of self sufficiency.Collection: Freedom
The hardest lesson of my life has come to me late. It is that a nation can win freedom without its people becoming free.Collection: Freedom
He who dares not (reason), is a slave.Collection: Freedom
Apertures, passages from one world to another. Man's escape hatches.Collection: Freedom
I had a right to my own political opinions. I am a Southern woman, born with Revolutionary blood in my veins. Freedom of speech and of thought were my birthright, guaranteed, signed and sealed by the blood of our fathers.Collection: Freedom
We have dared to be free. Let us dare to be so by ourselves and for ourselves.Collection: Freedom
There should be no separation between spontaneous work with an emotional tone and work directed by the intellect. Both are supplementary to each other and must be regarded as intimately connected. Discipline and freedom are thus to be seen as elements of equal weight, each partaking of the other.Collection: Freedom
Painting depends on freedom. When you're feeling completely free, you can create, and this power to create is, in turn, the greatest freedom of all.Collection: Freedom
Liberty is meaningless where the right to utter one's thoughts and opinions has ceased to exist. That, of all rights, is the dread of tyrants. It is the right which they first of all strike down.Collection: Freedom
Life on the open road is liberty... to be alone, to have few needs, to be unknown, everywhere a foreigner and at home, and to walk grandly and solitarily in conquest of the world.Collection: Freedom
Carelessness about our security is dangerous, carelessness about our freedom is also dangerous.Collection: Freedom
The sound of tireless voices is the price we pay for the right to hear the music of our own opinions.Collection: Freedom
The right to be let alone is indeed the beginning of all freedom.Collection: Freedom
The story of man is the history, first, of the acceptance and imposition of restraints necessary to permit communal life; and second, of the emancipation of the individual within that system of necessary restraints.Collection: Freedom
[C]ensorship in any form is the opening wedge for fascism, since it places arbitrary and unwarranted power in the hands of individuals.Collection: Freedom
Those who directed the state in the time of Solon and Cleisthenes did not establish a polity which ... trained the citizens in such fashion that they looked upon insolence as democracy, lawlessness as liberty, impudence of speech as equality, and licence to do what they pleased as happiness, but rather a polity which detested and punished such men and by so doing made all the citizens better and wiser.Collection: Freedom
Proving one's freedom will often mean insisting on the most arbitrary, odd, unrepeatable aspects of one's behavior.Collection: Freedom
Every event has a cause-that is ... for every event e1 there exists an event e2 (or a class of events e2, e3 ...) which precedes e1 and of which e1 is a necessary consequence.... If we assent to this statement then your "choice" to do A rather than B, whatever may have been at the time your sensation of freedom from any constraint, was entirely necessitated. You could not have done otherwise and hence, according to this conception of freedom, were not free.Collection: Freedom
The end goal is to get everybody chipped, to control the whole society, to have the bankers and the elite people control the world.Collection: Freedom
Freedom which has genuine meaning is more than a timeless abstraction, more than an absence of restraints.Collection: Freedom
We will not be led like sheep to the slaughter.Collection: Freedom
Is any man free except the one who can pass his life as he pleases?Collection: Freedom
It is unthinkable that a national government which represents women should ignore the issue of the right of all women to political freedom.Collection: Freedom
A people who mean to be free must be prepared to meet danger in person, and not rely upon the fallacious protection of armiesCollection: Freedom
A slave is he who cannot speak his thoughts.Collection: Freedom
I would rather die on my feet than live on my knees.Collection: Freedom
No one is truly free, they are a slave to wealth, fortune, the law, or other people restraining them from acting according to their will.Collection: Freedom
Laissez Faire, laissez passer. Let it be, let it pass. The phrase is not readily translatable. It was widely used by the Physiocrats in urging freedom from government interference and was adopted by Adam Smith.Collection: Freedom
Balanced' is a code for 'denied': a right to free speech that must be 'balanced' against so exhaustive a list of other supposed values means a right that can be exercised only when those in power judge that the speech in question is innocuous to them.Collection: Freedom
Liberty (individual freedom) is the prize, responsibility the price.Collection: Freedom
The Persian Gulf is our lifeline ... We will respect international navigation, for us, freedom of navigation in the Persian Gulf is a must.Collection: Freedom
News is what someone wants suppressed. Everything else is advertising.Collection: Freedom
The structure that is currently in place, inside government, forcing government employees to pay union dues, even if they don't want to be in a union -- that is fundamentally unconstitutional and it is against the American system of freedom of choice.Collection: Freedom
We have enjoyed so much freedom for so long that we are perhaps in danger of forgetting how much blood it cost to establish the Bill of Rights.Collection: Freedom
Ultimately there can be no freedom for self unless it is vouchsafed for others; there can be no security where there is fear, and a democratic society presupposes confidence and candor in the relations of men with one another and eager collaboration for the larger ends of life instead of the pursuit of petty, selfish or vainglorious aims.Collection: Freedom
Freedom of expression is the well-spring of our civilization... The history of civilization is in considerable measure the displacement of error which once held sway as official truth by beliefs which in turn have yielded to other truths. Therefore the liberty of man to search for truth ought not to be fettered, no matter what orthodoxies he may challenge.Collection: Freedom
Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech.Collection: Freedom
Freedom' is the most expensive possession there is; it has to be paid for with loneliness.Collection: Freedom
I have discovered that my freedom is within me, and nothing can destroy it.Collection: Freedom
Who ordained that a few should have the land of Britain as a perquisite, who made 10,000 people owners of the soil and the rest of us trespassers in the land of our birth?Collection: Freedom