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What is freedom? Freedom is the right to choose: the right to create for oneself the alternatives of choice. Without the possibility of choice a man is not a man but a member, an instrument, a thing. —Archibald MacLeishCollection: Freedom
I have a million nightingales on the branches of my heart singing freedom.Collection: Freedom
I tire so of hearing people say, Let things take their course. Tomorrow is another day. I do not need my freedom when I'm dead. I cannot live on tomorrow's bread.Collection: Freedom
Zen goes directly to your own experience of the oneness of the universe, of your interconnectedness with all things. You learn to distrust whatever you clung to in your old sense of separation, and that realization can be the most liberating thing in your life, a freedom beyond anything you could have imagined.Collection: Freedom
The very forces that liberty has set free work against the dangerous consequences of liberty.Collection: Freedom
Birds born in a cage think flying is an illness.Collection: Freedom
The liberty of the press is not confined to newspapers and periodicals. It necessarily embraces pamphlets and leaflets.Collection: Freedom
Journalists were killed because they defended freedom. Policemen were killed because they were protecting you. Jews were killed because they were Jewish.Collection: Freedom
Freedom is but the possibility of a various and indefinite activity; while government, or the exercise of dominion, is a single, yet real activity. The longing for freedom, therefore, is at first only too frequently suggested by the deep-felt consciousness of its absence.Collection: Freedom
To consider judges as the ultimate arbiters of all constitutional questions is a very dangerous doctrine indeed, and one which would place us under the despotism of an oligarchy.Collection: Freedom
I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery.Collection: Freedom
Today, we need a nation of Minutemen, citizens who are not only prepared to take arms, but citizens who regard the preservation of freedom as the basic purpose of their daily life and who are willing to consciously work and sacrifice for that freedom.Collection: Freedom
Only an educated and informed people will be a free people.Collection: Freedom
The rights of every man are diminished when the rights of one man are threatened.Collection: Freedom
It is the freedom to blaspheme, to transgress, to move beyond the pale, that is at the heart of all intellectual, artistic and political endeavor. Far from censoring offensive speech, a vibrant and diverse society should encourage it. In any society that is not uniform, grey and homogeneous, there are bound to be clashes of viewpoints.Collection: Freedom
An angry enemy encroached on our lives, our territory, our freedom and our independence.Collection: Freedom
A society is only as free as its most oppressed and afflicted members.Collection: Freedom
Freedom doesn't mean aimlessness. We can't just sleepwalk through life.... Freedom demands structure.Collection: Freedom
Be brave, be bold, be free.Collection: Freedom
People always have been and they always will be stupid victims of deceit and self-deception in politics.Collection: Freedom
Whenever legislators endeavor to take away and destroy the property of the people, or to reduce them to slavery under arbitrary power, they put themselves into a state of war with the people, who are thereupon absolved from any further obedience.Collection: Freedom
Where there is no law there is no freedom.Collection: Freedom
Freedom is a very great reality, but it means above all things, freedom from lies.Collection: Freedom
I take a grave view of the press. It is the weak slat under the bed of democracyCollection: Freedom
We have been preserved, these many years, in peace and prosperity. We have grown in numbers, wealth and power, as no other nation has ever grown. But we have forgotten God. We have forgotten the gracious hand which preserved us in peace, and multiplied and enriched and strengthened us; and we have vainly imagined, in the deceitfulness of our hearts, that all these blessings were produced by some superior wisdom and virtue of our own. Intoxicated with unbroken success, we have become too self sufficient to feel the necessity of redeeming and preserving Grace, too proud to pray to the God that made us!Collection: Freedom
Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.Collection: Freedom
It's time to recognise the internet as a basic human right. That means guaranteeing affordable access for all, ensuring internet packets are delivered without commercial or political discrimination, and protecting the privacy and freedom of web users regardless of where they live.Collection: Freedom
Here is my secret: I don't mind what happens.Collection: Freedom
Military men are just dumb, stupid animals to be used as pawns in foreign policy.Collection: Freedom
The most fatal thing a man can do is try to stand alone.Collection: Freedom
Never depend upon institutions or government to solve any problem. All social movements are founded by, guided by, motivated and seen through by the passion of individuals.Collection: Freedom
For every problem, there is a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong.Collection: Freedom
A professional politician is a professionally dishonorable man. In order to get anywhere near high office he has to make so many compromises and submit to so many humiliations that he becomes indistinguishable from a streetwalker.Collection: Freedom
The prosperity of the second half of the twentieth century was both a cause and an effect of social and scientific breakthroughs that have redefined human life. The biggest change is simply that people live longer and have far more freedom to think about things other than staying alive.Collection: Freedom
A hot bath! How exquisite a vespertine pleasure, how luxurious, fervid and flagrant a consolation for the rigours, the austerities, the renunciations of the day.Collection: Freedom
I want to be a free rover on the breezy common of the universe.Collection: Freedom
Freedom is the right to choose: the right to create for oneself the alternatives of choice. Without the possibility of choice and the exercise of choice a man is not a man but a member, an instrument, a thing.Collection: Freedom
I find freedom to be the most important issue facing any human being today, because without freedom, then life is pointless. The more dependent you become on centralized power, the more easily you are lead around.Collection: Freedom
The only way you can be free is to know is that you are worthwhile as a distinct human being.Collection: Freedom
Freedom is for everyone, whatever lifestyle they choose, as long as it's peaceful and honestCollection: Freedom
You can't talk about the environment, you can't talk about political correctness, affirmative action and all the other innumerable things that freedom is about, unless you have a free society based upon the integrity of the individual. If you have a responsible society, these other issues will not come up in a responsible society, and that is what freedom is all about.Collection: Freedom
Without general elections, without freedom of the press, freedom of speech, freedom of assembly, without the free battle of opinions, life in every public institution withers away, becomes a caricature of itself, and bureaucracy rises as the only deciding factor.Collection: Freedom
Freedom is always the freedom of dissenters.Collection: Freedom
If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom; and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too.Collection: Freedom
We anarchists do not want to emancipate the people; we want the people to emancipate themselves.Collection: Freedom
To change masters is not to be free.Collection: Freedom
The United States has been called the melting pot of the world. But it seems to me that the colored man either missed getting into the pot or he got melted down.Collection: Freedom
We are free to yield to truth.Collection: Freedom
When each thought absorbs your attention completely, it means you identify with the voice in your head. Thought then becomes invested with a sense of self. This is the ego, a mind-made "me." That mentally constructed self feels incomplete and precarious. That's why fearing and wanting are its predominant emotions and motivating forces.Collection: Freedom