Freedom Quotes - Page 28

That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves.

Remember that the happiest people are not those getting more, but those giving more.

Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.

Freedom is the will to be responsible for ourselves.

No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck.

Secrecy is the freedom tyrants dream of.

Compassion, in which all ethics must take root, can only attain its full breadth and depth if it embraces all living creatures and does not limit itself to mankind.

My God! How little do my countrymen know what precious blessings they are in possession of, and which no other people on earth enjoy!

Books are like imprisoned souls till someone takes them down from a shelf and frees them.

Free will is the power of choosing good and evil.

Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.

And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave, O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave.

We have enjoyed so much freedom for so long that we are perhaps in danger of forgetting how much blood it cost to establish the Bill of Rights.

A slave is he who cannot speak his thoughts.

Art is what you can get away with.

The road to freedom is full of thorns and fire, yet happy is he who follows it!

The road to tyranny, we must never forget, begins with the destruction of the truth.

It is the old practice of despots to use a part of the people to keep the rest in order.

Freedom is to be free of attachments, and the main attachment is to the 'I'-self.

Making prohibition work is like making water run uphill; it's against nature.

The most important single central fact about a free market is that no exchange takes place unless both parties benefit.

They call them terrorists, I call them freedom fighters.

Liberty is the possibility of doubting, the possibility of making a mistake, the possibility of searching and experimenting, the possibility of saying No to any authority - literary, artistic, philosophic, religious, social and even political.

There is no freedom of speech if you're a conservative.

A professional politician is a professionally dishonorable man. In order to get anywhere near high office he has to make so many compromises and submit to so many humiliations that he becomes indistinguishable from a streetwalker.