Freedom Quotes - Page 32

If we do not die for liberty, we shall soon have nothing left to do but weep for her.

Freedom of speech is always under attack by Fascist mentality, which exists in all parts of the world, unfortunately.

We'd all like to vote for the best man but he's never a candidate.

In a completely sane world, madness is the only freedom.

The greatest lesson we can learn from the past. . . is that freedom is at the core of every successful nation in the world.

No one is truly free, they are a slave to wealth, fortune, the law, or other people restraining them from acting according to their will.

Earthly possessions dazzle our eyes and delude us into thinking that they can provide security and freedom from anxiety. Yet all the time they are the very source of anxiety.

Who ordained that a few should have the land of Britain as a perquisite, who made 10,000 people owners of the soil and the rest of us trespassers in the land of our birth?

I would not be beholden to a tyrant, for his acts of tyranny. For it is but usurpation in him to save, as their rightful lord, the lives of men over whom he has no title to reign.

Be brave, be bold, be free.

Independence is my happiness, and I view things as they are, without regard to place or person; my country is the world, and my religion is to do good.

Do not bite at the bait of pleasure, till you know there is no hook beneath it.

A small nation, faced with the denial of its sovereignty — indeed, of its very existence — reminded us that the price of freedom is high but never so costly as the loss of freedom.

We don't have the freedom of speech to talk about the weather. We have the first amendment so we can say some very controversial things.

The man who does not do his own thinking is a slave, and is a traitor to himself and to his fellow-men.

Political freedom means the absence of coercion of a man by his fellow men.

Freedom' is the most expensive possession there is; it has to be paid for with loneliness.

I'm single because I was born that way.

Liberty cannot be preserved without general knowledge among the people.

In a democracy dissent is an act of faith. Like medicine, the test of its value is not in its taste, but in its effects.

Freedom can be preserved only if it is treated as a supreme principle which must not be sacrificed for particular advantages.

Pleasure is always derived from something outside you, whereas joy arises from within.

Freedom has its life in the hearts, the actions, the spirit of men and so it must be daily earned and refreshed - else like a flower cut from its life-giving roots, it will wither and die.

In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant.

Freedom is not merely the opportunity to do as one pleases; neither is it merely the opportunity to choose between set alternatives. Freedom is, first of all, the chance to formulate the available choices, to argue over them -- and then, the opportunity to choose.