Freedom Quotes - Page 4

Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost.

A man can be himself only so long as he is alone; and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom; for it is only when he is alone that he is really free.

To be true to one's own freedom is, in essence, to honor and respect the freedom of all others.

People always have been and they always will be stupid victims of deceit and self-deception in politics.

The United States has been called the melting pot of the world. But it seems to me that the colored man either missed getting into the pot or he got melted down.

There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.

Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.

True freedom is always spiritual. It has something to do with your innermost being, which cannot be chained, handcuffed, or put into a jail.

If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.

Nothing is more precious than Independence and Liberty.

Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies.

The civil rights movement didn't begin in Montgomery and it didn't end in the 1960s. It continues on to this very minute.

Democracy is a con game. It’s a word invented to placate people to make them accept a given institution. All institutions sing, ‘We are free.’ The minute you hear ‘freedom’ and ‘democracy’, watch out… because in a truly free nation, no one has to tell you you’re free.

I would like to be remembered as a person who wanted to be free... so other people would be also free.

[H]owever weak our country may be, I hope we shall never sacrifice our liberties.

When the representative body have lost the confidence of their constituents, when they have notoriously made sale of their most valuable rights, when they have assumed to themselves powers which the people never put into their hands, then indeed their continuing in office becomes dangerous to the state

Liberty is meaningless where the right to utter one's thoughts and opinions has ceased to exist. That, of all rights, is the dread of tyrants. It is the right which they first of all strike down.

Some tourists think Amsterdam is a city of sin, but in truth it is a city of freedom. And in freedom, most people find sin.

My Brain is the key that sets me free.

There is no such thing as freedom of choice unless there is freedom to refuse.

No experiment can be more interesting than that we are now trying, and which we trust will end in establishing the fact, that man may be governed by reason and truth. Our first object should therefore be, to leave open to him all the avenues to truth. The most effectual hitherto found, is the freedom of the press. It is, therefore, the first shut up by those who fear the investigation of their actions.

I am determined to defend my rights and maintain my freedom or sell my life in the attempt.

But we know that freedom cannot be served by the devices of the tyrant. As it is an ancient truth that freedom cannot be legislated into existence, so it is no less obvious that freedom cannot be censored into existence. And any who act as if freedoms defenses are to be found in suppression and suspicion and fear confess a doctrine that is alien to America.

Proclaim the truth and do not be silent through fear.

Without a struggle, there can be no progress.