Freedom Quotes - Page 30

Government is best which governs least

Freedom to differ is not limited to things that do not matter much. That would be a mere shadow of freedom. The test of its substance is the right to differ as to things that touch the heart of the existing order.

The price of freedom is death.

News is what someone wants suppressed. Everything else is advertising.

Freedom is independence of the compulsory will of another, and in so far as it tends to exist with the freedom of all according to a universal law, it is the one sole original inborn right belonging to every man in virtue of his humanity.

The recently ended twentieth century was characterized by a level of human rights violations unparalleled in all of human history. In his book Death by Government, Rudolph Rummel estimates some 170 million government-caused deaths in the twentieth century. The historical evidence appears to indicate that, rather than protecting life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness of their citizens, governments must be considered the greatest threat to human security.

You cannot take away freedom to protect it, you cannot destroy the free market to save it, and you cannot uphold freedom of speech by silencing those with whom you disagree. To take rights away to defend them or to spend your way out of debt defies common sense.

The truth will set you free. But not until it is finished with you.

We have freedom to demonstrate in Germany, but there is no place for incitement and insulting people who come to us from other countries.

Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.

Why is it that so few people are truly free? Because they try to conform to ideas, concepts, and beliefs in their heads.

The greatest enemy of individual freedom is the individual himself.

If the American Revolution had produced nothing but the Declaration of Independence, it would have been worthwhile.

If you put on shoes that are too tight and walk out across an empty plain, you will not feel the freedom of the place unless you take off your shoes. Your shoe-constriction has you confined. At night before sleeping you take off the tight shoes, and your soul releases into a place it knows. Dreams glide deeper.

Mankind has a free will; but it is free to milk cows and to build houses, nothing more.

Civil disobedience becomes a sacred duty when the state becomes lawless or corrupt.

Freedom is not something that anybody can be given. Freedom is something people take, and people are as free as they want to be

Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it.

The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one's time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all.

In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican.

Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.

The freedom of the press works in such a way that there is not much freedom from it.

Human history begins with man's act of disobedience which is at the same time the beginning of his freedom and the development of his reason.

In the end, they wanted security more than they wanted freedom.

As human beings, we are endowed with freedom of choice, and we cannot shuffle off our responsibility upon the shoulders of God or nature. We must shoulder it ourselves. It is our responsibility.