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If a writer is so cautious that he never writes anything that cannot be criticized, he will never be able to write anything that can be read. If you want to help other people you have got to make up your mind to write things that some men will condemn.Collection: Freedom
Liberty is its own reward.Collection: Freedom
Only free peoples can hold their purpose and their honor steady to a common end, and prefer the interests of mankind to any narrow interest of their own.Collection: Freedom
Liberal institutions straightway cease being liberal the moment they are soundly established: Once this is attained, no more grievous and more thorough enemies of freedom exist than liberal institutions.Collection: Freedom
We, and all others who believe in freedom as deeply as we do, would rather die on our feet than live on our knees.Collection: Freedom
You call yourself free? I want to hear your ruling thought and not that you have escaped a yoke. Are you such a one as was permitted to escape a yoke? There are some who threw away their ultimate worth when they threw away their servitude. Free from what? What is that to Zarathustra! But your eyes should announce to me brightly: free for what?Collection: Freedom
Freedom and constraint are two aspects of the same necessity, which is to be what one is and no other.Collection: Freedom
Let us not accept violence as the way of peace. Let us instead begin by respecting true freedom: the resulting peace will be able to satisfy the world's expectations, for it will be a peace built on justice, a peace founded on the incomparable dignity of the free human being.Collection: Freedom
Men talk of freedom! How many are free to think? Free from fear, from perturbation, from prejudice? Nine hundred and ninety-nine in a thousand are perfect slaves.Collection: Freedom
I ask for, not at once no government, but at once a better governmentCollection: Freedom
For men in a state of freedom had thatch for their shelter, while slavery dwells beneath marble and gold.Collection: Freedom
If I lose my life in a good cause I am willing to be sacrificed on the altar of virtue, righteousness and truth, in maintaining the laws and Constitution of the United States, if need be, for the general good of mankind.Collection: Freedom
We believe in enjoying the constitutional privilege and right of worshiping Almighty God according to the dictates of our own consciences.Collection: Freedom
Shall we longer bear these cruelties which have been heaped upon us for the last ten years in the face of heaven, and in open violation of the constitution and law of these United States and of this state? God forbid! I will not bear it. If they take away my rights, I will fight for them manfully and righteously until I am used up. We have done nothing against the rights of others.Collection: Freedom
I ask the citizens of this Republic whether such a state of things is to be suffered to pass unnoticed, and the hearts of widows, orphans, and patriots to be broken, and their wrongs left without redress? No! I invoke the genius of our Constitution. I appeal to the patriotism of Americans to stop this unlawful and unholy procedure; and pray that God may defend this nation from the dreadful effects of such outrages.Collection: Freedom
I am tired of the misrepresentation, calumny and detraction, heaped upon me by wicked men; and desire and claim, only those principles guaranteed to all men by the Constitution and laws of the United States and of Illinois.Collection: Freedom
We have not enjoyed unmolested those rights which the constitution of the U.S.A. and our Charters grant.Collection: Freedom
I am the greatest advocate of the Constitution of the United States there is on the earth. In my feelings I am always ready to die for the protection of the weak and oppressed in their just rights. The only fault I find with the Constitution is, it is not broad enough to cover the whole ground.Collection: Freedom
The constitution expects every man to do his duty; and when he fails the law urges him; or should he do too much; the same master rebukes him.Collection: Freedom
It is only when a man is alone that he is really free.Collection: Freedom
Fish love the ocean. Snakes move like earth-fish inside a mountain,well away from seawater. Certain sunfish,though,turn snakes into ocean lovers.Collection: Freedom
Freedom is the right to question and change the established way of doing things.Collection: Freedom
...the right to free expression is something one seizes, not something one is given.... if it does exist, it exists to be used against the established order.... There is absolute opposition between the artist and the state.Collection: Freedom
The winds that blow through the wide sky in these mounts, the winds that sweep from Canada to Mexico, from the Pacific to the Atlantic - have always blown on free men.Collection: Freedom
The only law which is really lived up to wholeheartedly and with a vengeance is the law of conformity.Collection: Freedom
To do good whenever one can, to love liberty above all else, never to deny the truth, even though it be before the throne.Collection: Freedom
Government is the enemy of conservatism and freedom.Collection: Freedom
Privacy IS freedom. Leave us alone!Collection: Freedom
I am absolutely convinced, you never have to give up any of your freedoms in order to be secure.Collection: Freedom
The Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of these United States are covenants we have made not only with ourselves, but with all mankind. Our founding documents proclaim to the world that freedom is not the sole prerogative of a chosen few. It is the universal right of all God's children.Collection: Freedom
Freedom is a dangerous intoxicant and very few people can tolerate it in any quantity.Collection: Freedom
For stories teach us, that liberty sought out of season, in a corrupt and degenerate age, brought Rome itself to a farther slavery: for liberty hath a sharp and double edge, fit only to be handled by just and virtuous men; to bad and dissolute, it becomes a mischief unwieldy in their own hands: neither is it completely given, but by them who have the happy skill to know what is grievance and unjust to a people, and how to remove it wisely; what good laws are wanting, and how to frame them substantially, that good men may enjoy the freedom which they merit, and the bad the curb which they need.Collection: Freedom
Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.Collection: Freedom
Profits are the driving force of the market economy. The greater the profits, the better the needs of the consumers are supplied... He who serves the public best, makes the highest profits.Collection: Freedom
A bird in a cage is not half a bird.Collection: Freedom
How strange now, looks the life he makes us lead; So free we seem, so fettered fast we are!Collection: Freedom
To wish happiness for others, even for those who want to do us harm, is the source of consummate happiness.Collection: Freedom
If you vanquish ego-clinging today, tonight you will be enlightened.Collection: Freedom
...with the power of compassion there is nothing that cannot be accomplished.Collection: Freedom
What is so beneficial to the people as liberty, which we see not only to be greedily sought after by men, but also by beasts, and to be prepared in all things.Collection: Freedom
The murders in Paris are sickening, we stand with the French people in the fight against terror and defending the freedom of the press.Collection: Freedom
As long as you are free, you are free to select and choose alternatives, provided that you are willing to accept the responsibility for being free. And after you've tried your alternatives, and they don't work as you would wish, don't blame me. Blame your choice. Try another alternative.Collection: Freedom
The price of freedom is to allow freedom. Very few people are willing to pay the price.Collection: Freedom
The third point of reference is freedom of perception; it is intent; it is spirit; the somersault of thought into the miraculous; the act of reaching beyond our boundaries and touching the inconceivable.Collection: Freedom
Forgiveness is attention without judgment. It heals the one who forgives and the one who is forgiven.Collection: Freedom
Thinking of the future, establishing aims for oneself, having preferences-all this presupposes a belief in freedom, even if one occasionally ascertains that one doesn't feel it.Collection: Freedom
Know ye not who would be free themselves must strike the blow? by their right arms the conquest must be wrought?Collection: Freedom
Only the history of free peoples is worth our attention; the history of men under a despotism is merely a collection of anecdotes.Collection: Freedom
General rebellions and revolts of a whole people never were encouraged now or at any time. They are always provoked.Collection: Freedom