Freedom Quotes - Page 33

Democracy is the process by which people choose the man who'll get the blame.

America's greatest contribution to the world is its concept of democracy, its concept of freedom, freedom of action, freedom of speech, and freedom of thought.

Freedom is the last, best hope of earth.

Free speech means the right to shout 'theatre' in a crowded fire.

Government is not a solution to our problem government is the problem.

Means and ends are central. If your means are corroded, your ends will be corroded. And if you're fighting to preserve liberty and you use means that eviscerate our liberties, the end will be corroded, too.

Freedom is indivisible, and when one man is enslaved, all are not free.

The best government is that which teaches us to govern ourselves.

You can never have a revolution in order to establish a democracy. You must have a democracy in order to have a revolution.

Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can complel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals, so that security and liberty may prosper together.

When you drop your unnecessary things, you finally can swoop and fly in vast space. It is so blue, so bright, and so nice, so airy and fresh. You can stretch your wings and breathe the air. You can do anything you want. You have experienced cheerfulness and joy, and finally the bliss of freedom occurs in you.

Gorbachev gave us freedom of worship and freedom of speech and freedom to see what was going on and freedom to vote, but that freedom won't last unless it is underpinned by economic freedom.

A liberated woman is one who feels confident in herself, and is happy in what she is doing. She is a person who has a sense of self-it all comes down to a freedom of choice.

Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.

Freedom! To fill people's mailboxes, eyes, ears and brains with commercial rubbish against their will, television programs that are impossible to watch with a sense of coherence. Freedom! To force information on people, taking no account of their right not to accept it or their right of peace of mind. Freedom! To spit in the eyes and souls of passersby with advertisements.

For know that no one is free, except Zeus.

I ain't a communist necessarily, but I been in the red all my life.

You and I are told we must choose between a left or right, but I suggest there is no such thing as a left or right. There is only an up or down. Up to man's age-old dream -- the maximum of individual freedom consistent with order --or down to the ant heap of totalitarianism. Regardless of their sincerity, their humanitarian motives, those who would sacrifice freedom for security have embarked on this downward path.

Books that distribute things... with as daring a freedom as we use in dreams, put us on our feet again.

The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in the insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning but without understanding.

Some people surrender their freedom willingly but others are forced to surrender it. Imprisonment begins with birth. Society, parents they refuse to allow you to keep the freedom you were born with. There are subtle ways to punish a person for daring to feel. You see that everyone around you has destroyed his true feeling nature. You imitate what you see.

the average man does not want to be free. he simply wants to be safe.

The kind of man who demands that government enforce his ideas is always the kind whose ideas are idiotic.

Freedom of press is limited to those who own one.

As Mankind becomes more liberal, they will be more apt to allow that all those who conduct themselves as worthy members of the community are equally entitled to the protections of civil government. I hope ever to see America among the foremost nations of justice and liberality.