Freedom Quotes - Page 10

There is no power in the world that can stop the forward march of free men and women when they are joined in the solidarity of human brotherhood.

Real freedom is not merely doing what you like, but also NOT doing what you like.

The cause of freedom is not the cause of a race or a sect, a party or a class - it is the cause of humankind, the very birthright of humanity.

But you must remember, my fellow-citizens, that eternal vigilance by the people is the price of liberty, and that you must pay the price if you wish to secure the blessing.

The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission.

The land free, the land free for all, land without overseers and without masters.

How will he who does not know how to govern himself know how to govern others?

Stress is an alarm clock that lets you know you're attached to something not true for you.

Democracy has nothing to do with freedom. Democracy is a soft variant of communism, and rarely in the history of ideas has it been taken for anything else.

People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get.

To change masters is not to be free.

Power, after all, is not just military strength. It is the social power that comes from democracy, the cultural power that comes from freedom of expression and research, the personal power that entitles every Arab citizen to feel that he or she is in fact a citizen, and not just a sheep in some great shepherd's flock.

Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.

You measure a democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists.

In essentials, unity; in differences, liberty; in all things, charity.

Bad men cannot make good citizens. It is when a people forget God that tyrants forge their chains. A vitiated state of morals, a corrupted public conscience, is incompatible with freedom. No free government, or the blessings of liberty, can be preserved to any people but by a firm adherence to justice, moderation, temperance, frugality, and virtue; and by a frequent recurrence to fundamental principles.

Military men are just dumb, stupid animals to be used as pawns in foreign policy.

People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.

If we don't fight hard enough for the things we stand for, at some point we have to recognize that we don't really stand for them.

If you assume that there is no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, that there are opportunities to change things, then there is a possibility that you can contribute to making a better world.

I never would have agreed to the formulation of the Central Intelligence Agency back in forty-seven, if I had known it would become the American Gestapo.

It is inaccurate to say that I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty, and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible for public office.

America is just the country that shows how all the written guarantees in the world for freedom are no protection against tyranny and oppression of the worst kind. There the politician has come to be looked upon as the very scum of society.

The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive.

The freedom from something is not true freedom. The freedom to do anything you want to do is also not the freedom I am talking about. My vision of freedom is to be yourself.