Freedom Quotes - Page 31

A hungry man is not a free man.

Love and freedom are vital to the creation and upbringing of a child.

I am you; you are ME. You are the waves; I am the ocean. Know this and be free, be divine.

The freedom of speech and the freedom of the press have not been granted to the people in order that they may say things which please, and which are based upon accepted thought, but the right to say the things which displease, the right to say the things which convey the new and yet unexpected thoughts, the right to say things, even though they do a wrong.

The greatest fallacy of democracy is that everyone's opinion is worth the same.

We are free, truly free, when we don't need to rent our arms to anybody in order to be able to lift a piece of bread to our mouths.

I will not abridge my freedoms so as not to offend savages, freedom of speech is under violent assault here.

I had spent many years pursuing excellence, because that is what classical music is all about... Now it was dedicated to freedom, and that was far more important.

Freedom is the power to create out of nothing, the power of the spirit to create out of itself.

Liberty is one of the most precious gifts which heaven has bestowed on man; with it we cannot compare the treasures which the earth contains or the sea conceals; for liberty, as for honor, we can and ought to risk our lives; and, on for the other hand, captivity is the greatest evil that can befall man.

[L]iberty must at all hazards be supported. We have a right to it, derived from our Maker. But if we had not, our fathers have earned and bought it for us, at the expense of their ease, their estates, their pleasure, and their blood.

You're not really free until you're free from trying to please everybody.

A forest bird never wants a cage.

This country has shed more blood for the freedom of other people than all the other nations in the history of the world combined, and I'm tired of people feeling like they've got to apologize for America.

Ultimately there can be no freedom for self unless it is vouchsafed for others; there can be no security where there is fear, and a democratic society presupposes confidence and candor in the relations of men with one another and eager collaboration for the larger ends of life instead of the pursuit of petty, selfish or vainglorious aims.

Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.

True success, true happiness lies in freedom and fulfillment.

The First Amendment is often inconvenient. But that is besides the point. Inconvenience does not absolve the government of its obligation to tolerate speech.

If you haven't wept deeply, you haven't begun to meditate.

The right of personal freedom recedes before the duty to preserve the race.

Take not from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned.

Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty.

They cry press freedom, but (the raids) have nothing to do with it. We have no concern about what the EU might say, whether the EU accepts us as members or not, we have no such concern. Please keep your wisdom to yourself.

Modern man is a prisoner who thinks he is free because he refrains from touching the walls of his dungeon.

Power in defense of freedom is greater than power in behalf of tyranny and oppression, because power, real power, comes from our conviction which produces action, uncompromising action.