Freedom Quotes - Page 14

Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.

I would like to be known as a person who is concerned about freedom and equality and justice and prosperity for all people.

No single person, including the President of the United States, should ever be given the power to make a medical decision for potentially millions of Americans. Freedom over one's physical person is the most basic freedom of all, and people in a free society should be sovereign over their own bodies. When we give government the power to make medical decisions for us, we in essence accept that the state owns our bodies.

If there is any principle of the Constitution that more imperatively calls for attachment than any other it is the principle of free thought, not free thought for those who agree with us but freedom for the thought that we hate.

It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears.

Only an educated and informed people will be a free people.

It is a paradox that every dictator has climbed to power on the ladder of free speech. Immediately on attaining power each dictator has suppressed all free speech except his own.

My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.

Our whole constitutional heritage rebels at the thought of giving government the power to control men's minds.

The man who would choose security over freedom deserves neither.

The black market was a way of getting around government controls. It was a way of enabling the free market to work. It was a way of opening up, enabling people.

I am the American heartbreak- The rock on which Freedom Stumped its toe.

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.

Through discipline comes freedom.

The state can't give you freedom, and the state can't take it away. You're born with it, like your eyes, like your ears. Freedom is something you assume, then you wait for someone to try to take it away. The degree to which you resist is the degree to which you are free.

I certainly was one of the instigators in the 1960s of freedom of expression.

When you release the wrongdoer from the wrong, you cut a malignant tumor out of your inner life. You set a prisoner free, but you discover that the real prisoner was yourself.

And this I believe: that the free, exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world. And this I would fight for: the freedom of the mind to take any direction it wishes, undirected. And this I must fight against: any idea, religion, or government which limits or destroys the individual. This is what I am and what I am about.

Yoga is a way to freedom. By its constant practice, we can free ourselves from fear, anguish and loneliness.

Democracy is not something you believe in or a place to hang your hat, but it's something you do. You participate. If you stop doing it, democracy crumbles.

I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it.

Liberty is to faction, what air is to fire, an aliment without which it instantly expires. But it could not be a less folly to abolish liberty, which is essential to political life, because it nourishes faction, than it would be to wish the annihilation of air, which is essential to animal life, because it imparts to fire its destructive agency.

It is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad.

Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.

A man is either free or he is not. There cannot be any apprenticeship for freedom.