Freedom Quotes - Page 42

Freedom is from within.

Resolve to serve no more, and you are at once freed.

Freedom is the fundamental condition for any growth.

When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.

The best weapon of a dictatorship is secrecy; the best weapon of a democracy is openness.

I have great respect for the news and great respect for freedom of the press and all of that.

Since a politician never believes what he says, he is quite surprised to be taken at his word.

Art lives where absolute freedom is, because where it is not, there can be no creativity.

What is freedom? There is no such thing as absolute freedom!

If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost.

Woe to that nation whose literature is disturbed by the intervention of power. Because that is not just a violation against "freedom of print," it is the closing down of the heart of the nation, a slashing to pieces of its memory.

An ordinary man seeks freedom through enlightenment. An enlightened man expresses freedom through being ordinary.

Anyone who sees and paints a sky green and fields blue ought to be sterilized.

The free press is the mother of all our liberties and of our progress under liberty.

There can be no Friendship where there is no Freedom.

Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.

The right to be let alone is indeed the beginning of all freedom.

Just as war is freedom's cost, disagreement is freedom's privilege.

The more decisions that you are forced to make alone, the more you are aware of your freedom to choose.

When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon.

Freedom of Speech is Freedom of Music.

Freedom always carries a burden of proof, always throws us back on ourselves.

Ultimately, America's answer to the intolerant man is diversity, the very diversity which our heritage of religious freedom has inspired.

Let us not accept violence as the way of peace. Let us instead begin by respecting true freedom: the resulting peace will be able to satisfy the world's expectations, for it will be a peace built on justice, a peace founded on the incomparable dignity of the free human being.

I am not truly free if I am taking away someone else's freedom, just as surely as I am not free when my freedom is taken from me. The oppressed and the oppressor alike are robbed of their humanity.