Freedom Quotes - Page 36

To be oneself is being neither under bond nor borrowed nor sold nor hired. To be, means to be spiritually free.

If you are an effective manager of your self, your discipline comes from within; it is a function of your independent will. You are a disciple, a follower, of your own deep values and their source. And you have the will, the integrity, to subordinate your feelings, your impulses, your moods to those values.

I tell you the truth: if I lived in a country where there was no day appointed for elections, I would become a revolutionary, if not a terrorist. And that is because I love liberty too much; without liberty a man is not a man. He has no dignity.

None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free.

A little caution outflanks a large cavalry.

The price of freedom is still, and always will be, eternal vigilance.

We live in a country where we're supposed to have freedom of the press and religious freedom, but I think to some degree, there's a sense of fear in America today, that if you say the wrong thing, what some people will consider what is wrong, if you step out of line, if you dissent, whether you be an entertainer, that somehow and some way this government or the forces to be will come down on you.

It is harder to preserve than to obtain liberty.

For your own good is a persuasive argument that will eventually make a man agree to his own destruction.

In health there is freedom. Health is the first of all liberties.

I am fifty years old and I have always lived in freedom; let me end my life free; when I am dead let this be said of me: 'He belonged to no school, to no church, to no institution, to no academy, least of all to any regime except the regime of liberty.'

The Constitution was made to guard the people against the dangers of good intentions

Men may die, but the fabric of our free institutions remains unshaken.

True independence and freedom can only exist in doing what's right.

Freedom of speech is the great bulwark of liberty; they prosper and die together: And it is the terror of traitors and oppressors, and a barrier against them. It produces excellent writers, and encourages men of fine genius.

Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

Humility does not mean thinking less of yourself than of other people, nor does it mean having a low opinion of your own gifts. It means freedom from thinking about yourself at all.

Whenever we take away the liberties of those whom we hate we are opening the way to loss of liberty for those we love.

Nobody who says, ‘I told you so’ has ever been, or will ever be, a hero.

To announce that there must be no criticism of the president... is morally treasonable to the American public.

liberty is the one thing no man can have unless he grants it to others.

Being an Indian means living with the land. And the only way we'll be able to do that is to gain our freedom.

Financial freedom is available to those who learn about it and work for it

The progress of freedom depends more upon the maintenance of peace, the spread of commerce, and the diffusion of education, than upon the labours of cabinets and foreign offices.

There is an attempt to tarnish Turkey by using press freedom when it is in fact measures taken against terrorism, i dispute this. Nowhere in Europe or in other countries is there a media that is as free as the press in Turkey.