Quotes about freedom
freedom media liberty
Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost. Thomas Jefferson
freedom 4th-of-july men
Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty.
freedom men liberty
It behooves every man who values liberty of conscience for himself, to resist invasions of it in the case of others: or their case may, by change of circumstances, become his own.
freedom government liberty
I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it.
freedom rights sacred
The constitutional freedom of religion is the most inalienable and sacred of all human rights
freedom judging liberty
To consider judges as the ultimate arbiters of all constitutional questions is a very dangerous doctrine indeed, and one which would place us under the despotism of an oligarchy.
freedom thinking goal
If you think that you are bound, you remain bound; you make your own bondage. If you know that you are free, you are free this moment. This is knowledge, knowledge of freedom. Freedom is the goal of all nature. Swami Vivekananda
freedom ideas mind
We must always bear in mind that we are not going to be free, but are free already. Every idea that we are bound is a delusion.
freedom air sea
We've got to maintain freedom of navigation of the seas and in the air. Tony Abbott
freedom democracy today
Today's Constitution is a realistic document of freedom only because of several corrective amendments. Those amendments speak to a sense of decency and fairness that I and other Blacks cherish. Thurgood Marshall
freedom men black-history
The United States has been called the melting pot of the world. But it seems to me that the colored man either missed getting into the pot or he got melted down.
freedom democracy opinion
The greatest fallacy of democracy is that everyone's opinion is worth the same. Robert A. Heinlein
freedom mistress matter
I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them.
freedom mistress matter
I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do. I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.
freedom men liberty
liberty is the one thing no man can have unless he grants it to others. Ruth Benedict
freedom choices tasks
A superficial freedom to wander aimlessly here or there, to taste this or that, to make a choice of distractions, is simply a sham. It claims to be a freedom of "choice" when it has evaded the basic task of discovering who it is that chooses. Thomas Merton
freedom two light
Everywhere the human soul stands between a hemisphere of light and another of darkness; on the confines of the two everlasting empires, necessity and free will. Thomas Carlyle
freedom giving-up order
I am absolutely convinced, you never have to give up any of your freedoms in order to be secure. Ron Paul
freedom government society
I am absolutely opposed to a national ID card. This is a total contradiction of what a free society is all about. The purpose of government is to protect the secrecy and the privacy of all individuals, not the secrecy of government. We don't need a national ID card.
freedom government enemy
Government is the enemy of conservatism and freedom.
freedom ideas people
You know, freedom is a very popular idea, and young people love it, and they're open to ideas. And they like principled answers to our problems.
freedom government civilization
Only in a free society do individuals have the best chance to seek virtue, strive for excellence, improve their economic well-being, and achieve personal happiness... The worthy goals of civilization can only be achieved by freedom loving individuals. When government uses force, liberty is sacrificed and the goals are lost. It is freedom that is the source of all creative energy.
freedom men america
America was founded by men who understood that the threat of domestic tyranny is as great as any threat from abroad. If we want to be worthy of their legacy, we must resist the rush toward ever-increasing state control of our society. Otherwise, our own government will become a greater threat to our freedoms than any foreign terrorist.
freedom privacy
Privacy IS freedom. Leave us alone!
freedom liberty special
There is but one special interest that we should be working for, and that would solve just about all of our problems, and that is our liberty.
freedom
Freedom is always the freedom of dissenters. Rosa Luxemburg
freedom battle speech
Without general elections, without freedom of the press, freedom of speech, freedom of assembly, without the free battle of opinions, life in every public institution withers away, becomes a caricature of itself, and bureaucracy rises as the only deciding factor.
freedom desire way
Whatever my individual desires were to be free, I was not alone. There were many others who felt the same way. Rosa Parks
freedom people would-be
I would like to be remembered as a person who wanted to be free... so other people would be also free.
freedom believe speech
I believe in freedom of speech, but I believe we should also have the right to comment on freedom of speech. Stockwell Day
freedom people firsts
The first need of a free people is to define their own terms. Stokely Carmichael
freedom-of-speech speech useless
Freedom of speech is useless without freedom of thought. Spiro T. Agnew
freedom spirit ends
The supreme end is the freedom of the spirit. Sri Aurobindo