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Freedom Quotes - Page 11

The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.

Speech on the Middlesex Election, 7 February 1771, in 'The Speeches' (1854)

Democracy is not a state in which people act like sheep.

Mahatma Gandhi (1959). “India of My Dreams”, p.27, Rajpal & Sons

Freedom is the oxygen of the soul.

Moshe Dayan (1992). “Moshe Dayan: Story of My Life”, Da Capo Press

None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1853). “Goethe's Opinions on the World, Mankind, Literature, Science, and Art”, p.3

The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty.

James Madison, David B. Mattern (1997). “James Madison's "Advice to My Country"”, p.41, University of Virginia Press

The ultimate freedom we have as human beings is the power to select what we will allow or require our minds to dwell upon.

Dallas Willard (2014). “Renovation of the Heart: Putting On the Character of Christ”, p.76, Tyndale House

Unnecessary laws are not good laws, but traps for money.

Thomas Hobbes (2008). “Leviathan”, p.256, Simon and Schuster