Freedom Quotes - Page 35

Democracy consists of choosing your dictators, after they've told you what you think it is you want to hear.

True and absolute freedom is only found in the presence of God.

Lets have faith that right makes might; and in that faith let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.

If ignorance is bliss, why aren't more people happy?

Tie two birds together. They will not be able to fly, even though they now have four wings.

In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from.

It is necessary to stay on the march, to be on the journey, to work for peace wherever we are at all times, because the liberty we cherish, which we would share with the world, demands eternal vigilance.

I knew I was alone in a way that no earthling has ever been before.

It is not true that democracy will always safeguard freedom of conscience better than autocracy. Witness the most famous of all trials. Pilate was, from the standpoint of the Jews, certainly the representative of autocracy. Yet he tried to protect freedom. And he yielded to a democracy.

The most powerful single force in the world today is neither Communism nor Capitalism, neither the H-bomb nor the guided missile -- it is man's eternal desire to be free and independent.

Liberty without Learning is always in peril and Learning without Liberty is always in vain.

A free America... means just this: individual freedom for all, rich or poor, or else this system of government we call democracy is only an expedient to enslave man to the machine and make him like it.

It is easy to take liberty for granted, when you have never had it taken from you.

The really important kind of freedom involves attention, and awareness, and discipline, and effort, and being able truly to care about other people and to sacrifice for them, over and over, in myriad petty little unsexy ways, every day.

It's only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything.

The Constitution is the sole source and guaranty of national freedom.

I was not born to be free---I was born to adore and obey.

We don't appreciate what we have until it's gone. Freedom is like that. It's like air. When you have it, you don't notice it.

Conversation would be vastly improved by the constant use of four simple words: I do not know.

There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do.

Laws alone can not secure freedom of expression; in order that every man present his views without penalty there must be spirit of tolerance in the entire population.

To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves.

It behooves every man who values liberty of conscience for himself, to resist invasions of it in the case of others: or their case may, by change of circumstances, become his own.

What country before ever existed a century and a half without a rebellion? And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.

Democracy means not "I am as good as you are" but "You are as good as I am.".