Liberty and Freedom: Quotes to Inspire Free Spirits - Page 38
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In the United States Senate, one of the things I observed in the early days - and it's still used - and that is that you take someone's argument and then you misrepresent it and misstate and disagree with it. And it's very effective. I've done it myself a number of times. But eventually, eventually people catch on.Collection: Freedom
Liberty is the great parent of science and of virtue; and a nation will be great in both in proportion as it is free.Collection: Freedom
[Oppose] with manly firmness [any] invasions on the rights of the people.Collection: Freedom
Let your cry be for free souls rather than for freedom. Moral liberty is the only important liberty.Collection: Freedom
Let us have justice, and then we shall have enough liberty!Collection: Freedom
I will not believe our labors are lost. I shall not die without a hope that light and liberty are on a steady advance.Collection: Freedom
Freedom of religion, freedom of the press, freedom of person under protection of habeas corpus; and trial by juries impartially selected, these principles form the bright constellation which has gone before us, and guided our steps through an age of revolution and reformation.Collection: Freedom
Free will is the ability to do gladly that which I must do.Collection: Freedom
While we shall never weary in the defense of freedom, neither shall we ever abandon the pursuit of peace.Collection: Freedom
While we shall negotiate freely, we shall not negotiate freedom.Collection: Freedom
I am entirely motivated without anger. The truth sets us free, and freedom acts.Collection: Freedom
Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost.Collection: Freedom
My God! How little do my countrymen know what precious blessings they are in possession of, and which no other people on earth enjoy!Collection: Freedom
The enlargement of liberty for individual human beings must be the supreme goal and abiding practice of any western society.Collection: Freedom
For to save mankind's future freedom, we must face up to any risk that is necessary. We will always seek peace - but we will never surrender.Collection: Freedom
The will of the people is the only legitimate foundation of any government, and to protect its free expression should be our first object.Collection: Freedom
In a government bottomed on the will of all, the... liberty of every individual citizen becomes interesting to all.Collection: Freedom
The unity of freedom has never relied on uniformity of opinion.Collection: Freedom
The man who would choose security over freedom deserves neither.Collection: Freedom
The constitutional freedom of religion is the most inalienable and sacred of all human rightsCollection: Freedom
The majority is never right. Never, I tell you! That's one of these lies in society that no free and intelligent man can help rebelling against. Who are the people that make up the biggest proportion of the population -- the intelligent ones or the fools?Collection: Freedom
The most powerful single force in the world today is neither Communism nor Capitalism, neither the H-bomb nor the guided missile -- it is man's eternal desire to be free and independent.Collection: Freedom
Life in freedom is not easy, and democracy is not perfect.Collection: Freedom
The majority, oppressing an individual, is guilty of a crime, abuses its strength, and by acting on the law of the strongest breaks up the foundations of society.Collection: Freedom
Tyranny and despotism can be exercised by many, more rigorously, more vigorously, and more severely, than by one.Collection: Freedom
I have only to let myself go! So I have said all my life, yet I have never fully done it.Collection: Freedom
Liberties are not given, they are taken.Collection: Freedom
People can be in general pretty well trusted, of course--with the clock of their freedom ticking as loud as it seems to do here--to keep an eye on the fleeting hour.Collection: Freedom
Our goal is not victory of might but the vindication of right - not peace at the expense of freedom, but both peace and freedom, here in this hemisphere and, we hope, around the world. God willing, that goal will be achieved.Collection: Freedom
But the fact being once established, that the press is impotent when it abandons itself to falsehood, I leave to others to restore it to its strength, by recalling it within the pale of truth. Within that, it is a noble institution, equally the friend of science and of civil liberty.Collection: Freedom
There is no thought or situation that you can't put up against inquiry. Every thought, every person, every apparent problem is here for the sake of your freedom.Collection: Freedom
He that accepts protection, stipulates obedience.Collection: Freedom
Freedom is independence of the compulsory will of another, and in so far as it tends to exist with the freedom of all according to a universal law, it is the one sole original inborn right belonging to every man in virtue of his humanity.Collection: Freedom
That ideas should freely spread from one to another over the globe, for the moral and mutual instruction of man, and improvement of his condition, seems to have been peculiarly and benevolently designed by nature, when she made them, like fire, expansible over all space, without lessening their density in any point, and like the air in which we breathe, move, and have our physical being, incapable of confinement or exclusive appropriation.Collection: Freedom
Our democracy is but a name. We vote? What does that mean? It means that we choose between two bodies of real, though not avowed, autocrats. We choose between Tweedledum and Tweedledee.Collection: Freedom
God, freedom, and immortality are untenable in the light of pure reason.Collection: Freedom
All extremes are bad. All that is good and useful, if carried to extremes, may become-and beyond a certain limit is bound to become-bad and injurious.Collection: Freedom
A useful definition of liberty is obtained only by seeking the principle of liberty in the main business of human life, that is to say, in the process by which men educate their responses and learn to control their environment.Collection: Freedom
We must abandon the notion that the people govern. Instead, we must adopt the theory that, by their occasional mobilisations as a majority, people support or oppose the individuals who actually govern.Collection: Freedom
Please use your freedom to promote ours.Collection: Freedom
Freedom is always at the beginning and not at the end.Collection: Freedom
Prussia: freedom of movement with a muzzle. Austria: an isolation cell in which screaming is allowed.Collection: Freedom
False rhetoric and false boastfulness spell moral ruin and lead unfailingly to political extinction.Collection: Freedom
Politics is the most concentrated expression of economics.Collection: Freedom
What most clearly characterizes true freedom and its true employment is its misemployment.Collection: Freedom
There's a type of freedom that occurs when everything that you've believed in and worked for is shattered, because then you have the opportunity to rebuild and to put yourself back together in a new way.Collection: Freedom
If the cruelties of slavery could not stop us, the opposition we now face will surely fail. Because the goal of America is freedom, abused and scorned tho' we may be, our destiny is tied up with America's destiny.Collection: Freedom
Freedom of connection with any application to any party is the fundamental social basis of the internet. And now, is the basis of the society built on the internet.Collection: Freedom