Liberty and Freedom: Quotes to Inspire Free Spirits - Page 29
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No free people can lose their liberties while they are jealous of liberty. But the liberties of the freest people are in danger when they set up symbols of liberty as fetishes, worshipping the symbol instead of the principle it represents.Collection: Freedom
Laws are like sausages. You sleep far better the less you know about how they are made.Collection: Freedom
. . . I hope that when you're my age, you'll be able to say as I have been able to say: We lived in freedom, we lived lives that were a statement, not an apology.Collection: Freedom
Man is created free, and is free, even though born in chains.Collection: Freedom
Man is condemned to be freeCollection: Freedom
Every man who says frankly and fully what he thinks is so far doing a public service. We should be grateful to him for attacking most unsparingly our most cherished opinions.Collection: Freedom
Western civilization is based upon the libertarian principle, and all its achievements are the results of the action of free men.Collection: Freedom
You can't take the sky from me.Collection: Freedom
This freedom of which men speak, for which they fight, seems to some people a perilous thing. It has to be earned at a bitter cost and then it has to be lived with. For freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility.Collection: Freedom
All restraints upon man's natural liberty, not necessary for the simple maintenance of justice, are of the nature of slavery, and differ from each other only in degree.Collection: Freedom
God created the law of free will, and God created the law of cause and effect. And he himself will not violate the law. We need to be thinking less in terms of what God did and more in terms of whether or not we are following those laws.Collection: Freedom
At all times, day by day, we have to continue fighting for freedom of religion, freedom of speech, and freedom from want... for these are things that must be gained in peace as well as in war.Collection: Freedom
Shackled heart, free spirit.--Whoever binds his heart tightly and imprisons it may indulge his spirit in many liberties: I have already said that once. But no one believes me unless he already knows.Collection: Freedom
Liberty, then, about which so many volumes have been written is, when accurately defined, only the power of acting.Collection: Freedom
True obedience is true freedom.Collection: Freedom
When you can look a thing dead in the eye, acknowledge that it exists, call it exactly what it is, and decide what role it will take in your life then, my Beloved, you have taken the first step toward your freedom.Collection: Freedom
Power is so apt to be insolent and Liberty to be saucy, that they are seldom upon good Terms.Collection: Freedom
It is completely in accord with the etatist thinking prevalent everywhere today to consider a theory to be finally disposed of merely because the authorities who control appointments to academic positions, want to know nothing of it, and to see the criterion of truth in the approval of a government office.Collection: Freedom
All go free when multitudes offend.Collection: Freedom
No dictator, no invader, can hold an imprisoned population by force of arms forever. There is no greater power in the universe than the need for freedom. Against that power, governments and tyrants and armies cannot stand. The Centauri learned this lesson once. We will teach it to them again. Though it take a thousand years, we will be free.Collection: Freedom
The fifth freedom, the Freedom of Individual Enterprise, is the keystone of the arch on which the other Four Freedoms rest. This is what freedom means.Collection: Freedom
I do not think, sir, you have any right to command me, merely because you are older than I, or because you have seen more of the world than I have; your claim to superiority depends on the use you have made of your time and experience.Collection: Freedom
Denn was ist Freiheit? Dasz man den Willen zur Selbstverantwortlichkeit hat.Collection: Freedom
Freedom is a hard-bought thing.Collection: Freedom
Grant me that I may not be a coward, feeling your mercy in my success alone; but let me find the grasp of your hand in my failure.Collection: Freedom
Eternal vigilence is the price of liberty.Collection: Freedom
You can't cage an eagle for long without destroying it.Collection: Freedom
Anarchy is the sure consequence of tyranny; for no power that is not limited by laws can ever be protected by them.Collection: Freedom
I would rather be a freeman among slaves than a slave among freemen.Collection: Freedom
It is not true that democracy will always safeguard freedom of conscience better than autocracy. Witness the most famous of all trials. Pilate was, from the standpoint of the Jews, certainly the representative of autocracy. Yet he tried to protect freedom. And he yielded to a democracy.Collection: Freedom
As Mankind becomes more liberal, they will be more apt to allow that all those who conduct themselves as worthy members of the community are equally entitled to the protections of civil government. I hope ever to see America among the foremost nations of justice and liberality.Collection: Freedom
The socialist system, however, forbids this fundamental freedom to choose one's own career. Under socialist conditions, there is only one economic authority, and it has the right to determine all matters concerning production.Collection: Freedom
True freedom is to have power over oneself for everything.Collection: Freedom
By all means attend to your duties. Action, in which you are not emotionally involved and which is beneficial and does not cause suffering will not bind you. You may be engaged in several directions and work with enormous zest, yet remain inwardly free and quiet, with a mirror like mind, which reflects all, without being affected.Collection: Freedom
The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees oneCollection: Freedom
There is no tyrant like custom, and no freedom where its edicts are not resisted.Collection: Freedom
The words spoken by the leader of the free world can expand the frontiers of freedom or shrink them.Collection: Freedom
Will is wish, and liberty is power.Collection: Freedom
Whilst we strive To live most free, we're caught in our own toils.Collection: Freedom
The war for freedom will never really be won because the price of freedom is constant vigilance over ourselves and over our Government.Collection: Freedom
I suggest to my students that they write under a pseudonym for a week. That allows young men to write as women, and women as men. It allows them a lot of freedom they don't have ordinarily.Collection: Freedom
We love our lovin'....but not like we love our freedom.Collection: Freedom
The great lesson that nature seems to teach us at all ages is self-dependence, self-protection, self-support. In the hours of our keenest sufferings all are thrown wholly on themselves for consolation.Collection: Freedom
Why do men carry guns and build prison camps, when the nurturing earth is made for freedom?Collection: Freedom
We commonly think of freedom as the ability to define alternatives and choose between them. The creative mind exceeds this liberty in being able to redefine itself and reality at large, generating whole new sets of alternatives.Collection: Freedom
Because it is a radical act of freedom, creative achievement is a heroic process that requires, in all its permutations, specific strengths of character.Collection: Freedom
We stand committed to the proposition that freedom is no half-and-half affair. If the average citizen is guaranteed equal opportunity in the polling place, he must have equal opportunity in the market place.Collection: Freedom
Buddha says: Meditation brings two things. It brings wisdom, it brings freedom. These two flowers grow out of meditation. When you become silent, utterly silent, beyond the mind, two flowers bloom in you. One is of wisdom: you know what is and what is not. And the other is of freedom: you know now there are no more any limitations on you, either of time or of space. You become liberated. Meditation is the key to liberation, to freedom, to wisdom.Collection: Freedom
The only thing that can free you is the belief that you can be free.Collection: Freedom