Freedom Quotes - Page 24

Freedom of thought and freedom of speech in our great institutions are absolutely necessary for the preservation of our country. The moment either is restricted, liberty begins to wither and die.

Those who suppress freedom always do so in the name of law and order.

If the people were to ever find out what we have done, we would be chased down the streets and lynched.

Freedom of speech, freedom of the press, and freedom of religion all have a double aspect - freedom of thought and freedom of action.

We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home.

There is no dignity quite so impressive, and no one independence quite so important, as living within your means.

It is easier to live through someone else than to complete yourself. The freedom to lead and plan your own life is frightening if you have never faced it before. It is frightening when a woman finally realizes that there is no answer to the question 'who am I' except the voice inside herself.

As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.

It is dangerous to take human freedom for granted, to regard it as a prerogative rather than as an obligation, as an ultimate fact rather than as an ultimate goal. It is the beginning of wisdom to be amazed at the fact of our being free.

All we have of freedom All we use or know This our fathers bought for us Long and long ago

Start with a style and you are in chains, start with an idea and you are free.

The history of any nation is not only a succession of events, but also a chain of ideas.

...[W]e insist on the principle that no danger or crisis, foreign or domestic, will be solved by Americans surrendering more of their constitutional liberties, in the foolish hope that a bigger government will provide greater security.

A state that suppresses all freedom of speech, and which by imposing the most terrible punishments, treats each and every attempt at criticism, however morally justified, and every suggestion for improvement as plotting to high treason, is a state that breaks an unwritten law.

Our goal is not victory of might but the vindication of right - not peace at the expense of freedom, but both peace and freedom, here in this hemisphere and, we hope, around the world. God willing, that goal will be achieved.

Freedom for the wolves has often meant death to the sheep.

Freedom means choosing your burden.

The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.

To sin by silence, when they should protest, makes cowards of men.

The search for human freedom can never be complete without freedom for women.

Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority; the political function of rights is precisely to protect minorities from oppression by majorities (and the smallest minority on earth is the individual).

Freedom is a muscle...you have to exercise it.

Two Soviets . . . were talking to each other. And one of them asked, "What's the difference between the Soviet Constitution and the United States Constitution?" And the other one said, "That's easy. The Soviet Constitution guarantees freedom of speech and freedom of gathering. The American Constitution guarantees freedom after speech and freedom after gathering."

You don't have to be a man to fight for freedom. All you have to do is to be an intelligent human being.

Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it.