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Where there is much freedom there is much error.Collection: Freedom
Freedom is not being a slave to any circumstance, to any constraint, to any chance; it means compelling Fortune to enter the lists on equal terms.Collection: Freedom
Painters and poets alike have always had license to dare anything! We know that, and we both claim and allow to others in their turn this indulgence.Collection: Freedom
Our object now, as then, is to vindicate the principles of peace and justice in the life of the world as against selfish and autocratic power, and to set up among the really free and self-governed peoples of the world such a concert of purpose and of action as will henceforth insure the observance of those principles.Collection: Freedom
But it also came at a significant cost for human rights, and today's restricted freedom of expression, self-censorship and stunted multiparty democracy.Collection: Freedom
Government means always coercion and compulsion and is by necessity the opposite of liberty.Collection: Freedom
Volumes can be and have been written about the issue of freedom versus dictatorship, but, in essence, it comes down to a single question: do you consider it moral to treat men as sacrificial animals and to rule them by physical force?Collection: Freedom
We do not choose political freedom because it promises us this or that. We choose it because it makes possible the only dignified form of human coexistence, the only form in which we can be fully responsible for ourselves. Whether we realize its possibilities depends on all kinds of things — and above all on ourselves.Collection: Freedom
Remember, until you become a buddha you have wasted your life. Buddhahood is your flowering, your fragrance. A tree is fulfilled when it blooms, and a man is fulfilled when he releases the fragrance of buddhahood, when he becomes luminous; then he comes to know who he is. In knowing that, all is known. In knowing that, God is known. In knowing that, truth is achieved - you become the truth, and truth liberates. Truth is freedom.Collection: Freedom
Willing sets you free: that is the true doctrine of will and freedom--thus Zarathustra instructs you.Collection: Freedom
The Constitution should contain a provision that every officer of the Government who should neglect or refuse to extend the protection guaranteed in the Constitution should be subject to capital punishment; and then the president of the United States would not say, "Your cause is just, but I can do nothing for you."Collection: Freedom
You know, freedom is a very popular idea, and young people love it, and they're open to ideas. And they like principled answers to our problems.Collection: Freedom
As muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone, it could be argued that those who sit quietly and do nothing are making one of the best possible contributions to a world in turmoil.Collection: Freedom
If God exists, how can we lay claim to freedom, since He is its beginning and its end?Collection: Freedom
But in the West today, we see a free world that has achieved a level of prosperity and well-being unprecedented in all human history. In the Communist world, we see failure, technological backwardness, declining standards of health, even want of the most basic kind - too little food. Even today, the Soviet Union still cannot feed itself. After these four decades, then, there stands before the entire world one great and inescapable conclusion: Freedom leads to prosperity. Freedom replaces the ancient hatreds among the nations with comity and peace. Freedom is the victor.Collection: Freedom
I came into this world, not chiefly to make this a good place to live in, but to live in it, be it good or bad.Collection: Freedom
Easier were it To hurl the rooted mountain from its base, Than force the yoke of slavery upon men Determin'd to be free.Collection: Freedom
...why did Plato say that poets should be chased out of the republic? Precisely because every poet and every artist is an antisocial being. He's not that way because he wants to be; he can't be any other way.... and if he really is an artist it is in his nature not to want to be admitted, because if he is admitted it can only mean he is doing something which is understood, approved, and therefore old hat - worthless. Anything new, anything worth doing, can't be recognized.Collection: Freedom
If you want to be free, be free, because there's a million things to be.Collection: Freedom
The most fundamental message of Gautama the Buddha is not God, is not soul... it is freedom: freedom absolute, total, unconditional. He does not want to give you an ideology, because every ideology creates its own slavery.Collection: Freedom
Freedom, in childhood, may be the right to be totally self-centered. But freedom in old age is the ability to be the best of the self I have developed during all those years.Collection: Freedom
Pauling was shocked by the freedom with which the X-ray crystallographers of the time, including particularly Astbury, played with the intimate chemical structure of their models. They seemed to think that if the atoms were arranged in the right order and about the right distance apart, that was all that mattered, that no further restrictions need to be put on them.Collection: Freedom
We must not allow ourselves to become like the system we oppose. We cannot afford to use methods of which we will be ashamed when we look back, when we say, '...we shouldn't have done that.' We must remember, my friends, that we have been given a wonderful cause. The cause of freedom! And you and I must be those who will walk with heads held high. We will say, 'We used methods that can stand the harsh scrutiny of history.'Collection: Freedom
True it is that she who escapeth safe and unpolluted from out the school of freedom, giveth more confidence of herself than she who comet sound out of the school of severity and restraint.Collection: Freedom
In a free society, one does not have to deal with those who are irrational. One is free to avoid them.Collection: Freedom
The mass of men are very easily imposed on. They have their runways in which they always travel, and are sure to fall into any pit or box-trap set therein.Collection: Freedom
Take advice, but not orders. Only give yourself orders. Abraham Lincoln once said, 'Since I will be no one's slave, I will be no one's master.'Collection: Freedom
No religion can long continue to maintain its purity when the church becomes the subservient vassal of the stateCollection: Freedom
Better the rule of One, whom all obey, than to let clamorous demagogues betray our freedom with the kiss of anarchy.Collection: Freedom
A man is morally free when, in full possession of his living humanity, he judges the world, and judges other men, with uncompromising sincerity.Collection: Freedom
A free people ought not only to be armed, but disciplined; to which end a uniform and well-digested plan is requisite.Collection: Freedom
Your freedom is a supreme value. Nothing is higher than that. But your freedom is possible only if you are not encaged in your habits, unconscious patterns of living. Change your gestalt from unconsciousness to consciousness.Collection: Freedom
A well-governed appetite is a great part of libertyCollection: Freedom
The English people think they are free; they are greatly deceived; they are free only during the election of members of Parliament.Collection: Freedom
RITUALISM, n. A Dutch Garden of God where He may walk in rectilinear freedom, keeping off the grass.Collection: Freedom
Law and freedom must be indivisible partners. For without law, there can be no freedom, only choas and disorder; and without freedom, law is but a cynical veneer for injustice and oppression.Collection: Freedom
Despots and democratic majorities are drunk with power.Collection: Freedom
Socialism in Russia has not brought about an improvement in the conditions of the average man which can be compared with the improvement of conditions, during the same period, in the United States.Collection: Freedom
The Constitution, when it says, "We, the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, ensure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America," meant just what it said without reference to color or condition, ad infinitum.Collection: Freedom
Come, all ye lovers of liberty, break the oppressor's rod, loose the iron grasp of mobocracy, and bring to condign punishment all those who trample under foot the glorious Constitution and the people's rights.Collection: Freedom
It is wrong to think that belief in freedom always leads to victory; we must always be prepared for it to lead to defeat. If we choose freedom, then we must be prepared to perish along with it.Collection: Freedom
It is wrong to ask who will rule. The ability to vote a bad government out of office is enough. That is democracy.Collection: Freedom
We must plan for freedom, and not only for security, if for no other reason than only freedom can make security more secure.Collection: Freedom
A superficial freedom to wander aimlessly here or there, to taste this or that, to make a choice of distractions, is simply a sham. It claims to be a freedom of "choice" when it has evaded the basic task of discovering who it is that chooses.Collection: Freedom
This I must fight against: any idea, religion, or government which limits or destroys the individual.Collection: Freedom
Democratic institutions form a system of quarantine for tyrannical desires.Collection: Freedom
It is necessary to curb the power of government. This is the task of all constitutions, bills of rights and laws. This is the meaning of all struggles which men have fought for liberty.Collection: Freedom
America is said to be the arena on which the battle of freedom is to be fought; but surely it cannot be freedom in a merely political sense that is meant. Even if we grant that the American has freed himself from a political tyrant, he is still the slave of an economical and moral tyrant. Now that the republic--the res- publica--has been settled, it is time to look after the res- privata,--the private state,--to see, as the Roman Senate charged its consuls, "ne quid res-PRIVATA detrimenti caperet," that the private state receive no detriment.Collection: Freedom