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Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.Collection: Freedom
Your freedom when it loses its fetters becomes itself the fetter of a greater freedom.Collection: Freedom
Freedom from labor itself is not new; it once belonged among the most firmly established privileges of the few. In this instance, it seems as though scientific progress and technical developments had been only taken advantage of to achieve something about which all former ages dreamed but which none had been able to realize.Collection: Freedom
I always had an aversion to your apostles of freedom; each but sought for himself freedom to do what he liked.Collection: Freedom
Men often become what they believe themselves to be. If I believe I cannot do something,it makes me incapable of doing it. When I believe I can,I acquire the ability to do it even if I didn’t have it in the beginning.’"Mahatma GandhiCollection: Freedom
All the joys - animal and human - of a free life are mine. I have escaped everything that is artificial, conventional, customary.Collection: Freedom
True emancipation begins neither at the polls nor in the courts. It begins in woman's soul.Collection: Freedom
Freedom is like birth. Till we are fully free, we are slaves.Collection: Freedom
No society can possibly be built on a denial of individual freedom.Collection: Freedom
Freedom of worship, even of public speech, would become a farce if interference became the order of the day.Collection: Freedom
Freedom received though the efforts of others, however benevolent, cannot be retained when such effort is withdrawn.Collection: Freedom
Freedom battles are not fought without paying heavy prices.Collection: Freedom
No government on earth can make men, who have realized freedom in their hearts, salute against their will.Collection: Freedom
Freedom from all attachment is the realization of God as Truth.Collection: Freedom
It will be hard to find a parallel in history in which unarmed people have represented the urge for freedom, turning their armlessness into the central means for deliverance.Collection: Freedom
Though we are politically free, we are hardly free from the subtle domination of the West.Collection: Freedom
A slave has not the freedom even to do the right thing.Collection: Freedom
...And in freedom, most people find sin.Collection: Freedom
Freedom of the press is not an end in itself but a means to the end of a free society.Collection: Freedom
Much literary criticism comes from people for whom extreme specialization is a cover either for grave cerebral inadequacy or terminal laziness, the latter being a much-cherished aspect of academic freedom.Collection: Freedom
While any one is base, none can be entirely free and noble.Collection: Freedom
Democracy is not a state in which people act like sheep.Collection: Freedom
History does not teach fatalism. There are moments when the will of a handful of free men breaks through determinism and opens up new roads.Collection: Freedom
The ultimate foundation of a free society is the binding tie of cohesive sentiment.Collection: Freedom
Performance of one's duties should be independent of public opinion.Collection: Freedom
you can muffle the drum, and you can loosen the strings of the lyre, but who shall command the skylark not to sing?Collection: Freedom
The well being of democracies regardless of their type and status is dependent on one small technical detail: The right to vote. Everything else is secondary.Collection: Freedom
I do not want my house to be walled in on all sides and my windows to be stuffed. I want the culture of all lands to be blown about my house as freely as possible. But I refuse to be blown off my feet by anyCollection: Freedom
Evolution of democracy is not possible if we are not prepared to hear the other side.Collection: Freedom
One can choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances.Collection: Freedom
Whatever liberates our spirit, without also giving us mastery over ourselves, is destructive.Collection: Freedom
... the space left to freedom is very small.ends are inherent in human nature and the same for all.Collection: Freedom
A man can be free without being great, but no man can be great without being free.Collection: Freedom
No charter of freedom will be worth looking at which does not ensure the same measure of freedom for the minorities as for the majority.Collection: Freedom
Economic freedom is ... an indispensable means toward the achievement of political freedom.Collection: Freedom
I start ... from a belief in individual freedom and that derives fundamentally from a belief in the limitations of our knowledge, from a belief ... that nobody can be sure that what he believes is right, is really right ... I'm an imperfect human being who cannot be certain of anything, so what position ... involved the least intolerance on my part? ... The most attractive position ... is putting individual freedom first.Collection: Freedom
I think almost every economist would agree that government gets itself in trouble when it tries to interfere with voluntary behavior.Collection: Freedom
A slave- holder, who has decided to abolish slavery, does not consult his slaves whether they desire freedom or not.Collection: Freedom
Only law can give us freedom.Collection: Freedom
Political freedom means the absence of coercion of a man by his fellow men. The fundamental threat to freedom is power to coerce, be it in the hands of a monarch, a dictator, an oligarchy, or a momentary majority. The preservation of freedom requires the elimination of such concentration of power to the fullest possible extent and the dispersal and distribution of whatever power cannot be eliminated — a system of checks and balances.Collection: Freedom
I well remember how the thoughts I had up to the time of my discharge from the jail on every occasion were modified immediately after discharge, and after getting first-hand information myself. Somehow or other the jail atmosphere does not allow you to have all the bearings in your mind.Collection: Freedom
Genius resembles a bell; in order to ring it must be suspended into pure air, and when a foreign body touches it, its joyful toneis silenced.Collection: Freedom
German radicalism: freedom-masturbation.Collection: Freedom
Robespierre, this pedant of freedom!Collection: Freedom
You ardently strive for freedom, and I do wish you were free--but, rather than for your sake, so that government won't be.Collection: Freedom
Some tourists think Amsterdam is a city of sin, but in truth it is a city of freedom. And in freedom, most people find sin.Collection: Freedom