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There will be no greater burden on our generation than to organize the forces of liberty in our time in order to make our quest ofa new freedom for America.Collection: Freedom
We must always bear in mind that we are not going to be free, but are free already. Every idea that we are bound is a delusion.Collection: Freedom
Freedom can't be kept for nothing. If you set a high value on liberty, you must set a low value on everything else.Collection: Freedom
Once people who have been deprived of basic freedom taste a little of it, they want all of it.Collection: Freedom
The very opposite of freedom is cliche, and nothing is less free, more inert with convention and hollow brutality, than a row of four-letter words.Collection: Freedom
What do we mean by setting a man free? You cannot free a man who dwells in a desert and is an unfeeling brute.Collection: Freedom
Let freedom never perish in your hands.Collection: Freedom
The market economy is the social system of the division of labor under private ownership of the means of production. Everybody acts on his own behalf; but everybodys actions aim at the satisfaction of other peoples needs as well as at the satisfaction of his own. Everybody in acting serves his fellow citizens.Collection: Freedom
All the scientist creates in a fact is the language in which he enunciates it. If he predicts a fact, he will employ this language, and for all those who can speak and understand it, his prediction is free from ambiguity. Moreover, this prediction once made, it evidently does not depend upon him whether it is fulfilled or not.Collection: Freedom
What good is a Bill of Rights that does not include the right to play, to wander, to explore, the right to stillness and solitude, to discovery and physical freedom?Collection: Freedom
Irreverence is the champion of liberty and its only sure defense.Collection: Freedom
Freedom is as frightening now as it was thousands of years ago. It will always require a willingness to sacrifice what is most familiar for what is most true. To be free we may need to act from integrity, on trust, sometimes for a very long time. Few of us will reach our promised land in a day. But perhaps the most important part of the story is that God does not delegate this task. Whenever anyone moves toward freedom, God Himself is there.Collection: Freedom
The choice people have to make is never between slavery and freedom. We will always have to choose between slavery and the unknown.Collection: Freedom
allowing freedom to others brings freedom to ourselves.Collection: Freedom
Freedom to reject is the only freedom.Collection: Freedom
I am caught like a beast at bay. Somewhere are people, freedom, light, But all I hear is the baying of the pack, There is no way out for me.Collection: Freedom
I anticipate the Day when to command Respect in the remotest Regions it will be sufficient to say I am an American.Collection: Freedom
If the fires of freedom and civil liberties burn low in other lands they must be made brighter in our own. If in other lands the press and books and literature of all kinds are censored we must redouble our efforts here to keep them free. If in other lands the eternal truths of the past are threatened by intolerance we must provide a safe place for their perpetuation.Collection: Freedom
According to the laws and constitution of the people, which I [the Lord] have suffered to be established, and should be maintained for the rights and protection of all flesh, according to just and holy principles.Collection: Freedom
While other men were peacefully following their vocations and extending their interests they [the Saints in Clay County] have been deprived of the right of citizenship, prevented from enjoying their own, charged with violating the sacred principles of our Constitution and laws.Collection: Freedom
This I would fight for: the freedom of the mind to take any direction it wishes, undirected.Collection: Freedom
We are usually convinced more easily by reasons we have found ourselves than by those which have occurred to others.Collection: Freedom
Neither the entrepreneurs nor the farmers nor the capitalists determine what has to be produced. The consumers do that.Collection: Freedom
Loaves of bread remind us of sunlight, but when we are inside that orb,we lose interest in building ovens,in millwork and the preparation of fields before the planting.Collection: Freedom
We look forward to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms. The first is freedom of speech and expression. The second is freedom of every person to worship God in his own way. The third is freedom from want. The fourth is freedom from fear.Collection: Freedom
It is easier to rule others than to keep from being ruled oneself.Collection: Freedom
When you drop your unnecessary things, you finally can swoop and fly in vast space. It is so blue, so bright, and so nice, so airy and fresh. You can stretch your wings and breathe the air. You can do anything you want. You have experienced cheerfulness and joy, and finally the bliss of freedom occurs in you.Collection: Freedom
Freedom exists only where the people take care of the government.Collection: Freedom
Service cannot be expected from a friend in service; let him be a freeman who wishes to be my master.Collection: Freedom
For a man to act himself, he must be perfectly free; otherwise he is in danger of losing all sense of responsibility or of self- respect.Collection: Freedom
Freedom can be destroyed, not just by its retraction, but also by its abuse.Collection: Freedom
There can be no truly moral choice unless that choice is made in freedom; similarly, there can be no really firmly grounded and consistent defense of freedom unless that defense is rooted in moral principle. In concentrating on the ends of choice, the conservative, by neglecting the conditions of choice, loses that very morality of conduct with which he is so concerned. And the libertarian, by concentrating only on the means, or conditions, of choice and ignoring the ends, throws away an essential moral defense of his own position.Collection: Freedom
All of the services commonly thought to require the State-from the coining of money to police protection to the development of law in defense of the rights of person and property-can be and have been supplied far more efficiently and certainly more morally by private persons. The State is in no sense required by the nature of man; quite the contrary.Collection: Freedom
The essence of all slavery consists in taking the product of another's labor by force. It is immaterial whether this force be founded upon ownership of the slave or ownership of the money that he must get to live.Collection: Freedom
Freedom is baffling: men having it often know not they have it till it is gone and they no longer have it.Collection: Freedom
To feed men and not to love them is to treat them as if they were barnyard cattle. To love them and not respect them is to treat them as if they were household pets.Collection: Freedom
To give liberty to a slave before he understands its value is, perhaps, rather to impose a penalty than to bestow a blessing.Collection: Freedom
Both John F. Kennedy and Nelson Mandela use the same three-word phrase which in my mind says it all, which is ‘Freedom is indivisible. You can’t slice it up, otherwise it ceases to be freedom. You can dislike Charlie Hebdo … but the fact that you dislike them has nothing to do with their right to speak.Collection: Freedom
Such being the happiness of the times, that you may think as you wish, and speak as you think.Collection: Freedom
Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.Collection: Freedom
Freedom begins the moment you realize someone else has been writing your story and it's time you took the pen from his hand and started writing it yourself.Collection: Freedom
The revolutionary artist does not only focus on the negative aspects of capitalist lives, but also creates visions of a revolutionary future.Collection: Freedom
Men of ideas vanish when freedom vanishes.Collection: Freedom
Knowing yourself as the awareness behind the voice is freedom.Collection: Freedom
The individual man, in introspecting the fact of his own consciousness, also discovers the primordial natural fact of his freedom: his freedom to choose, his freedom to use or not use his reason about any given subject. In short, the natural fact of his "free will." He also discovers the natural fact of his mind's command over his body and its actions: that is, of his natural ownership over his self.Collection: Freedom
We adore titles and heredities in our hearts and ridicule them with our mouths. This is our democratic privilege.Collection: Freedom
Don't think in terms of comfort; think in terms of freedom. Don't think in terms of safety, think in terms of being more alive. And the only way to be more alive is to live dangerously, is to risk, is to go on an adventure. And the greatest adventure is not going to the moon - the greatest adventure is going to your own innermost core.Collection: Freedom
Become aware, awake. Then you will see that everything comes and goes, all things come and pass. Life is a flux. Your consciousness is the only thing that is immovable, that is eternal. To attain it is freedom. To attain it is the goal of life. If you miss it you have missed your life and you have missed a tremendously great gift, a great opportunity.Collection: Freedom
The point is less what we choose than that we have the power to make a choice.Collection: Freedom