Freedom Quotes - Page 18

The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other peoples' money.

The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home.

To sing about freedom and to pray for its coming is not enough. Freedom must be actualized in history by oppressed peoples who accept the intellectual challenge to analyze the world for the purpose of changing it.

Bondage is of the mind; freedom too is of the mind. If you say 'I am a free soul. I am a son of God who can bind me' free you shall be.

To be free . . . to walk the good American earth as equal citizens, to live without fear, to enjoy the fruits of our toil, to give our children every opportunity in life--that dream which we have held so long in our hearts is today the destiny that we hold in our hands.

I have discovered that my freedom is within me, and nothing can destroy it.

Israel is a country that respects freedom - freedom of assembly, freedom of speech and freedom of worship.

Well, if crime fighters fight crime and fire fighters fight fire, what do freedom fighters fight?

I am God! I am nothing, I'm play, I am freedom, I am life. I am the boundary, I am the peak.

A person who suffers bitterly when slighted or insulted should recognize from this that he still harbors the ancient serpent in his breast. If he quietly endures the insult or responds with great humility, he weakens the serpent and lessens its hold. But if he replies acrimoniously or brazenly, he gives it strength to pour its venom into his heart and to feed mercilessly on his guts. In this way the serpent becomes increasingly powerful; it destroys his soul's strength and his attempts to set himself right, compelling him to live for sin and to be completely dead to righteousness.

Our contest is not only whether we ourselves shall be free, but whether there shall be left to mankind an asylum on earth for civil and religious liberty.

Stop. Stop everything. Then you will realize you are the freedom you have been searching for.

History does not teach fatalism. There are moments when the will of a handful of free men breaks through determinism and opens up new roads.

Reality doesn’t impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me. I escape, one way or another. No more walls.

Our greatest freedom is the freedom to choose our attitude.

When caring for your neighbor becomes a compulsory obligation imposed by government instead of voluntary, charity turns to confiscation and freedom to achieve to involuntary servitude. To liberals, compassion seems to be defined by how many people are dependent on the government; to conservatives, it's defined by how many people no longer need help. One promotes dependence, the other freedom, responsibility and achievement.

Nothing is more disgusting than the crowing about liberty by slaves, as most men are, and the flippant mistaking for freedom of some paper preamble like a Declaration of Independence, or the statute right to vote, by those who have never dared to think or to act.

People have the right to call themselves whatever they like. That doesn't bother me. It's other people doing the calling that bothers me.

Free speech is meaningless if the commercial cacophony has risen to the point where no one can hear you.

Human beings are perhaps never more frightening than when they are convinced beyond doubt that they are right.

Compared to 10 years ago the primary motivation for defection has gone from food, to freedom.

We do not choose political freedom because it promises us this or that. We choose it because it makes possible the only dignified form of human coexistence, the only form in which we can be fully responsible for ourselves. Whether we realize its possibilities depends on all kinds of things — and above all on ourselves.

Because we are free we can never be indifferent to the fate of freedom elsewhere. Our moral sense dictates a clearcut preference for these societies which share with us an abiding respect for individual human rights. We do not seek to intimidate, but it is clear that a world which others can dominate with impunity would be inhospitable to decency and a threat to the well-being of all people.

The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.

True freedom from fear consists of totally resigning one's life into the hands of the Lord.