Freedom Quotes - Page 29

As long as the differences and diversities of mankind exist, democracy must allow for compromise, for accommodation, and for the recognition of differences.

He who allows oppression shares the crime.

Freedom is knowing who you really are.

Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus.

When an opponent declares, "I will not come over to your side," I calmly say, "Your child belongs to us already...What are you? You will pass on. Your descendants, however, now stand in the new camp. In a short time they will know nothing else but this new community."

There should be a sympathy with freedom, a desire to give it scope, founded not upon visionary ideas, but upon the long experience of many generations within the shores of this happy isle, that in freedom you lay the firmest foundations both of loyalty and order.

There are two good things in life - freedom of thought and freedom of action.

For every man who lives without freedom, the rest of us must face the guilt.

He who loves, flies, runs, and rejoices; he is free and nothing holds him back.

Perhaps the fact that we have seen millions voting themselves into complete dependence on a tyrant has made our generation understand that to choose one's government is not necessarily to secure freedom.

Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty.

if I fall, I will fall five-feet four-inches forward in the fight for freedom.

Americans love their captivity. There's no responsibility. When you're a captive, you don't have to make a decision about anything, though you have no Liberty. People don't want Liberty. Liberty is nothing but uncertainty. It's much easier to have someone tell you where you'll be, what you'll do and who you'll pay tomorrow than to worry about it yourself. The same goes for what you think

Freedom is the greatest fruit of self sufficiency.

A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won't cross the street to vote in a national election.

The ballot is stronger than the bullet.

The history of liberty is a history of resistance.

To be unafraid of the judgement of others is the greatest freedom you can have.

The spirit of liberty is the spirit which is not too sure that it is right; the spirit of liberty is the spirit which seeks to understands the minds of other men and women.

Enlightenment is an accident, but some activities make you accident-prone.

[C]ensorship in any form is the opening wedge for fascism, since it places arbitrary and unwarranted power in the hands of individuals.

For the average American, freedom of speech is simply the freedom to repeat what everyone else is saying and no more.

True freedom is the right to say something that others don't want to hear.

The really important kind of freedom involves...being able truly to care about other people...

The American people, intrenched in freedom at home, take their love for it with them wherever they go.