Freedom Quotes - Page 23

If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.

For what avail the plough or sail, or land or life, if freedom fail?

The well-being and the hopes of the peoples of the world can never be served until peace - as well as freedom, honor and self-respect - is secure.

I have the audacity to believe that peoples everywhere can have three meals a day for their bodies, education and culture for their minds, and dignity, equality and freedom for their spirits.

It is bad to be oppressed by a minority, but it is worse to be oppressed by a majority.

The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously.

It is proof of a base and low mind for one to wish to think with the masses or majority, merely because the majority is the majority. Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people.

A free people ought not only to be armed, but disciplined; to which end a uniform and well-digested plan is requisite.

The time is near at hand which must determine whether Americans are to be free men or slaves.

Without freedom of the press, there can be no representative government.

There are always those who are willing to surrender local self-government and turn over their affairs to some national authority in exchange for a payment of money out of the Federal Treasury. Whenever they find some abuse needs correction in their neighborhood, instead of applying the remedy themselves they seek to have a tribunal sent on from Washington to discharge their duties for them, regardless of the fact that in accepting such supervision they are bartering away their freedom.

My excellent colleagues have forgotten these bitter lessons of history. The prospect of tyranny may not grab the headlines the way vivid stories of gun crime usually do. But few saw the Third Reich coming until it was too late. The Second Amendment is a doomsday provision, one designed only for those exceptionally rare circumstances when all other rights have failed. A free people can only afford to make this mistake once.

The liberties of none are safe unless the liberties of all are protected.

WikiLeaks will not comply with legally abusive requests from Scientology any more than WikiLeaks has complied with similar demands from Swiss banks, Russian offshore stem-cell centers, former African kleptocrats, or the Pentagon.

The most dangerous enemy of the truth and freedom amongst us is the compact majority

Don't regard yourself as a guardian of freedom unless you respect and preserve the rights of people you disagree with.

You cannot parcel out freedom in pieces because freedom is all or nothing.

Freedom is always the freedom of dissenters.

There is no expedient to which a man will not resort to avoid the real labor of thinking.

The freedom of the press should be inviolate.

I was a dog on a short chain / and now there's no chain.

By interpreting freedom as the propagation and immediate gratification of needs, people distort their own nature, for they engender in themselves a multitude of pointless and foolish desires, habits, and incongruous stratagems. Their lives are motivated only by mutual envy, sensuality, and ostentation.

Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, the wretched refuse of your teeming shore, send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed, to me: I lift my lamp beside the golden door.

The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.

How strange now, looks the life he makes us lead; So free we seem, so fettered fast we are!