Freedom Quotes - Page 37

Censorship reflects a society's lack of confidence in itself. It is a hallmark of an authoritarian regime.

My main fight is for freedom and equality.

True freedom is understanding that we have a choice in who and what we allow to have power over us.

That's part of American greatness, is discrimination. Yes, sir. Inequality, I think, breeds freedom and gives a man opportunity.

There is always a well-known solution to every human problem - neat, plausible, and wrong.

We have our difficulties, true; but we are a wiser and a tougher nation than we were in 1932. Never have there been six years of such far flung internal preparedness in all of history. And this has been done without any dictator's power to command, without conscription of labor or confiscation of capital, without concentration camps and without a scratch on freedom of speech, freedom of the press or the rest of the Bill of Rights.

The bigger the information media, the less courage and freedom they follow. Bigness means weakness.

The most beautiful thing in the world is freedom of speech.

A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue.

Wherever despotism abounds, the sources of public information are the first to be brought under its control. Where ever the cause of liberty is making its way, one of its highest accomplishments is the guarantee of the freedom of the press.

The freedom of speech of private individuals includes the right to not agree, not to listen, and not to finance one's own antagonists.

The end goal is to get everybody chipped, to control the whole society, to have the bankers and the elite people control the world.

Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself.

Don't think in terms of comfort; think in terms of freedom. Don't think in terms of safety, think in terms of being more alive. And the only way to be more alive is to live dangerously, is to risk, is to go on an adventure. And the greatest adventure is not going to the moon - the greatest adventure is going to your own innermost core.

Whatever field of human activity one may take, only those trends that are in harmony with the needs of society show rapid progress.

Waiting for the winds of change to sweep the clouds away. Waiting for the rainbow's end to cast its gold your way ... You don't get something for nothing. You can't have freedom for free

Whatever situation you're in: Send love, place it in God's hands, open your heart to everyone involved - and it will turn out miraculously.

The moment the slave resolves that he will no longer be a slave, his fetters fall. Freedom and slavery are mental states.

Freedom and slavery are mental states.

The whole freedom of man consists either in spiritual or civil liberty.

Politics is the art of choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.

Freedom is the only law which genius knows.

Every emancipation has in it the seeds of a new slavery, and every truth easily becomes a lie.

Our democracy is but a name. We vote? What does that mean? It means that we choose between two bodies of real, though not avowed, autocrats. We choose between Tweedledum and Tweedledee.

Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can exist apart from religious principle.