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I have taken a moment here to rest, to steal a view of the glorious vista that surrounds me, to look back on the distance I have come.Collection: Freedom
The cure for the evils of democracy is more democracy.Collection: Freedom
It is the fundamental theory of all the more recent American law...that the average citizen is half-witted, and hence not to be trusted to either his own devices or his own thoughts.Collection: Freedom
Censors are necessary, increasingly necessary, if America is to avoid having a vital literature.Collection: Freedom
Hanging one scoundrel, it appears, does not deter the next. Well, what of it? The first one is at least disposed of.Collection: Freedom
The ultimate authority, wherever the derivative may be found, resides in the people alone, and that it will not depend merely on the comparative ambition or address of the different governments, whether either, or which of them, will be able to enlarge its sphere of jurisdiction at the expense of the other.Collection: Freedom
Popular liberty might then have escaped the indelible reproach of decreeing to the same citizens, the hemlock on one day, and statues on the next.Collection: Freedom
The Liberty Bell is "a very significant symbol for the entire democratic world."Collection: Freedom
In civilized communities, property as well as personal rights is an essential object of the laws, which encourage industry by securing the enjoyment of its fruits; that industry from which property results, and that enjoyment which consists not merely in its immediate use, but in its posthumous destination to objects of choice, and of kindred affection. In a just and free government, therefore, the rights both of property and of persons ought to be effectually guarded.Collection: Freedom
The natural state of mankind ... and I know that this is a controversial idea... is freedom... And the proof is the lengths to which a man, woman, or child will go to regain it once lost. He will break loose his chains. He will decimate his enemies. He will try and try and try again, against all odds, against all prejudices.Collection: Freedom
When we can sit in the face of insanity or dislikes and be free from the need to make it different, then we are free.Collection: Freedom
The right to freedom being the gift of God, it is not in the power of man to alienate this gift and voluntarily become a slave.Collection: Freedom
Democracies have been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property; and in general been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their death.Collection: Freedom
[A] republic . . . [is] a government, in which the property of the public, or people, and of every one of them was secure and protected by law . . . implies liberty; because property cannot be secured unless the man be at liberty to acquire, use or part with it, at his discretion, and unless he have his personal liberty of life and limb, motion and rest, for that purpose.Collection: Freedom
As freedom is the only safeguard of governments, so are order and moderation generally necessary to preserve freedom.Collection: Freedom
When I started to paint I felt transported into a kind of paradise... In everyday life I was usually bored and vexed... Starting to paint I felt gloriously free.Collection: Freedom
Slow are the steps of freedom, but her feet turn never backward.Collection: Freedom
Firmness in decision is often merely a form of stupidity. It indicates an inability to think the same thing out twice.Collection: Freedom
I believe in only one thing and that thing is human liberty. If ever a man is to achieve anything like dignity, it can happen only if superior men are given absolute freedom to think what they want to think and say what they want to say. I am against any man and any organization which seeks to limit or deny that freedom... [and] the superior man can be sure of freedom only if it is given to all men.Collection: Freedom
An artist must not feel under any constraint.Collection: Freedom
We live in oppressive times. We have, as a nation, become our own thought police; but instead of calling the process by which we limit our expression of dissent and wonder ‘censorship,’ we call it ‘concern for commercial viability.Collection: Freedom
I have long been convinced that institutions purely democratic must, sooner or later, destroy liberty or civilization, or both.Collection: Freedom
There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere.Collection: Freedom
Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule—and both commonly succeed, and are right.Collection: Freedom
The kind of man who demands that government enforce his ideas is always the kind whose ideas are idiotic.Collection: Freedom
Americans need not fear the federal government because they enjoy the advantage of being armed, which you possess over the people of almost every other nation.Collection: Freedom
Happily for America, happily, we trust, for the whole human race, they pursued a new and more noble course. They accomplished a revolution which has no parallel in the annals of human society.Collection: Freedom
There's one thing about freedom ... each generation of people begins by thinking they've got it for the first time in history, and ends by being sure the generation younger than themselves have too much of it. It can't really always have been increasing at the rate people suppose, or there would be more of it by now.Collection: Freedom
The object and practice of liberty lies in the limitation of government power.Collection: Freedom
After you get your freedom, your enemy will respect you.Collection: Freedom
What I admire most in any man is a serene spirit, a steady freedom from moral indignation, and all-embracing tolerance--in brief,what is commonly called sportsmanship.Collection: Freedom
If we advert to the nature of republican government, we shall find that the censorial power is in the people over the government, and not in the government over the people.Collection: Freedom
Time is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor. Truth is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor. You don't need anything else.Collection: Freedom
Imagine the Creator as a low comedian, and at once the world becomes explicable.Collection: Freedom
Liberty, once lost, is lost forever.Collection: Freedom
Remorse - Regret that one waited so long to do it.Collection: Freedom
The cosmos is a gigantic flywheel making 10,000 revolutions per minute. Man is a sick fly taking a dizzy ride on it.Collection: Freedom
The argument that capital punishment degrades the state is moonshine, for if that were true then it would degrade the state to send men to war... The state, in truth, is degraded in its very nature: a few butcheries cannot do it any further damage.Collection: Freedom
Power in defense of freedom is greater than power in behalf of tyranny and oppression, because power, real power, comes from our conviction which produces action, uncompromising action.Collection: Freedom
The whole drift of our law is toward the absolute prohibition of all ideas that diverge in the slightest form from the accepted platitudes, and behind that drift of law there is a far more potent force of growing custom, and under that custom there is a natural philosophy which erects conformity into the noblest of virtues and the free functioning of personality into a capital crime against society.Collection: Freedom
the average man does not want to be free. he simply wants to be safe.Collection: Freedom
The dagger plunged in the name of freedom is plunged into the breast of freedom.Collection: Freedom
Liberty is not for these slaves; I do not advocate inflicting it against their conscience. On the contrary, I am strongly in favor of letting them crawl and grovel all they please before whatever fraud or combination of frauds they choose to venerate...Our whole practical government is grounded in mob psychology and the Boobus Americanus will follow any command that promises to make him safer.Collection: Freedom
As free as you allow others to be, such freedom you create for yourself.Collection: Freedom
[L]iberty must at all hazards be supported. We have a right to it, derived from our Maker. But if we had not, our fathers have earned and bought it for us, at the expense of their ease, their estates, their pleasure, and their blood.Collection: Freedom
I believe there is a limit beyond which free speech cannot go, but it's a limit that's very seldom mentioned. It's the point where free speech begins to collide with the right to privacy. I don't think there are any other conditions to free speech. I've got a right to say and believe anything I please, but I haven't got a right to press it on anybody else. .... Nobody's got a right to be a nuisance to his neighbors.Collection: Freedom
I believe that any man who takes the liberty of another into his keeping is bound to become a tyrant, and that any man who yields up his liberty, in however slight the measure, is bound to become a slave.Collection: Freedom
We have to call it "freedom": who'd want to die for "a lesser tyranny"Collection: Freedom