Freedom Quotes - Page 17

At the heart of liberty is the right to define one's own concept of existence, of meaning, of the universe, and of the mystery of human life.

What country can preserve its liberties if its rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms.

If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger?

Democracy is four wolves and a sheep voting on dinner.

The so-called liberals of today have the very popular idea that freedom of speech, of thought, of the press, freedom of religion, freedom from imprisonment without trial-that all these freedoms can be preserved in the absence of what is called economic freedom. They do not realize that, in a system where there is no market, where the government directs everything, all those other freedoms are illusory, even if they are made into laws and written up in constitutions.

Your freedom to be you includes my freedom to be free from you.

Honesty in politics is the result of strength; hypocrisy is the result of weakness.

Our journey is about being more deeply involved in life, and yet less attached to it.

You get your freedom by letting your enemy know that you'll do anything to get it. Then you'll get it. It's the only way you'll get it.

We hold our heads high, despite the price we have paid, because freedom is priceless.

The attraction of snowboarding is the freedom it gives you. With a snowboard on your feet the sky is the limit. You can do anything and go anywhere. This is not just for pro riders. It is for everyone. The other amazing thing with snowboarding is how easy it is to get away from people and enjoy the solitude of the mountains. Its almost impossible in surfing but with snowboarding it is a short hike from the top of the lift or the side of the road.

The only security of all is in a free press.

I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.

A joyful life is an individual creation that cannot be copied from a recipe.

Many think, because your skins are tinged with a sable hue, that you are an inferior race of beings; but God does not consider you as such. ... he hath made all men free and equal. Then why should one worm say to another, 'Keep you down there, while I sit up yonder; for I am better than thou?

The most certain test by which we judge whether a country is really free is the amount of security enjoyed by minorities.

Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.

A good politician is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar.

I never said, 'I want to be alone.' I only said, 'I want to be let alone!' There is all the difference.

At this time is freedom anything but the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.

Without Virtue there can be no liberty

If liberty is worth keeping and free representative government worth saving, we must stand for all American fundamentals-not some, but all. All are woven into the great fabric of our national well-being. We cannot hold fast to some only, and abandon others that, for the moment, we find inconvenient. If one American fundamental is prostrated, others in the end will surely fall.

Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.

Love with attachment consists of waves of emotion, usually creating invisible iron chains.

Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction.