Quotes about freedom
freedom blessing support
Those who expect to reap the blessing of freedom must undertake to support it. Thomas Paine
freedom equality men
I have always strenuously supported the right of every man to his own opinion, however different that opinion might be to mine. He who denies to another this right, makes a slave of himself to his present opinion, because he precludes himself the right of changing it.
freedom men likes
A man's worst difficulties begin when he is able to do as he likes. Thomas Huxley
freedom people decision
Freedom... refer[s] to a social relationship among people-namely, the absence of force as a prospective instrument of decision making. Freedom is reduced whenever a decision is made under threat of force, whether or not force actually materializes or is evident in retrospect. Thomas Sowell
freedom law black
We enjoy freedom and the rule of law on which it depends, not because we deserve it, but because others before us put their lives on the line to defend it.
freedom men law
Whenever men take the law into their own hands, the loser is the law. And when the law loses, freedom languishes. Robert Kennedy
freedom practice goal
The enlargement of liberty for individual human beings must be the supreme goal and abiding practice of any western society.
freedom mean liberty
The free way of life proposes ends, but it does not prescribe means.
freedom might cry
They cry press freedom, but (the raids) have nothing to do with it, we have no concern about what the EU might say, whether the EU accepts us as members or not, we have no such concern. Please keep your wisdom to yourself. Recep Tayyip Erdogan
freedom men slave
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.... Samuel Adams
freedom soldier dollars
I consider each of my dollars to be investment "soldiers," and their mission is "freedom." T. Harv Eker
freedom thinking long
Rich people think long-term. They balance their spending on enjoyment today with investing for freedom tomorrow.
freedom law democracies-have
Laws provide against injury from others; but not from ourselves. Thomas Jefferson
freedom government interesting
In a government bottomed on the will of all, the... liberty of every individual citizen becomes interesting to all.
freedom men mind
The opinions and beliefs of men follow involuntarily the evidence proposed to their minds.
freedom blessing government
May it be to the world... to assume the blessings and security of self-government.
freedom moving men
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.
freedom fighting men
Men fight for freedom; then they begin to accumulate laws to take it away from themselves.
freedom children father
It is better to tolerate the rare instance of a parent refusing to let his child be educated, than to shock the common feelings and ideas by forcible asportation and education of the infant against the will of the father.
freedom 4th-of-july thinking
The will of the people is the only legitimate foundation of any government, and to protect its free expression should be our first object.
freedom light ideas
He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me.
freedom war patriotic
The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive.
freedom rights people
[Oppose] with manly firmness [any] invasions on the rights of the people.
freedom democracies-have government
Take not from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned.
freedom order practice
It is the old practice of despots to use a part of the people to keep the rest in order.
freedom 4th-of-july patriotic
My God! How little do my countrymen know what precious blessings they are in possession of, and which no other people on earth enjoy!
freedom age gone
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.
freedom law abuse
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.
freedom 4th-of-july government
The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.
freedom rights hands
When the representative body have lost the confidence of their constituents, when they have notoriously made sale of their most valuable rights, when they have assumed to themselves powers which the people never put into their hands, then indeed their continuing in office becomes dangerous to the state
freedom patriotic equality
All, too, will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will to be rightful must be reasonable; that the minority possess their equal rights, which equal law must protect, and to violate would be oppression.
freedom believe light
I will not believe our labors are lost. I shall not die without a hope that light and liberty are on a steady advance.
freedom patriotic government
That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves.