Freedom Quotes - Page 40

Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with keener fangs than freedom never endangered.

God, freedom, and immortality are untenable in the light of pure reason.

You can only be free if I am free.

Freedom of expression is the matrix, the indispensable condition, of nearly every other form of freedom.

When we become captive to the Word of God, then we discover true freedom.

There is no "slippery slope" toward loss of liberty, only a long staircase where each step down must first be tolerated by the American people and their leaders.

Liberty doesn't work as well in practice as it does in speeches.

Don't be afraid to admit defeat. Learn from defeat. Do over again more thoroughly, more carefully, and more systematically what you have done badly.

The will of the people is the only legitimate foundation of any government, and to protect its free expression should be our first object.

There is price you pay when you want freedom of speech. You must be willing to accept the good the bad and the ugly when trying something out of the box.

So that's the dissenter's hope: that they are writing not for today but for tomorrow.

When we speak of peace, we should not mean just the absence of war. True peace rests on the pillars of individual freedom, human rights, national self-determination, and respect for the rule of law.

We gain freedom when we have paid the full price.

Now that she had nothing to lose, she was free.

Shall we gather strength by irresolution and inaction?

The more freedom we enjoy, the greater the responsibility we bear, toward others as well as ourselves.

There is more than one kind of freedom," said Aunt Lydia. "Freedom to and freedom from. In the days of anarchy, it was freedom to. Now you are being given freedom from. Don't underrate it.

The day that the black man takes an uncompromising step and realizes that he's within his rights, when his own freedom is being jeopardized, to use any means necessary to bring about his freedom or put a halt to that injustice, I don't think he'll be by himself.

The spirit of improvement is not always a spirit of liberty, for it may aim at forcing improvements on an unwilling people.

Can there be any liberty where property is taken away without consent?

No union exists between church and state, and perfect freedom of opinion is guaranteed to all sects and creeds.

I will be free, no lover's kiss to bind me to earth, no bliss of love to counteract actual bliss.

Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.

I believe in only one thing: liberty; but I do not believe in liberty enough to want to force it upon anyone.

One cannot have a trade union or a democratic election without freedom of speech, freedom of association and assembly. Without a democratic election, whereby people choose and remove their rulers, there is no method of securing human rights against the state. No democracy without human rights, no human rights without democracy, and no trade union rights without either. That is our belief; that is our creed.